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London, March 2020

One Tree Hill View Point at the Greenwich Park

Prime Meridian, Royal Observatory and Peter Harrison Planetarium

Greenwich Park

National Maritime Museum

Old Royal Naval College

Early cherry blossom at the Kensington Gardens

Royal Albert Hall

Beautiful magnolias

The Albert Memorial

Kensington Palace

Round Pond at Kensington Gardens

Italian Gardens

Peter Pan Statue

Tropical green parakeets can be found in London

Cozy streets of London

Hampstead Heath

Kenwood House

The Brew House

The Dairy at Kenwood

Gwendwr Gardens

Sunset at the Prospekt Hill

The O2 arena

Canary Wharf district on the Isle of Dogs

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Colorful autumn in Moscow, 2019

September

Moscow Exhibition Center VDNKHa

A monument to Ivan Michurin who was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of plants.

Ostankino TV and radio tower.

Aptekarskiy Ogorod.

October

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Ostankino TV and radio tower.

Moscow Botanical Garden.

Aptekarskiy Ogorod.

Храм Святого Мученика и Чудотворца Трифона.

Ekaterininskiy Park.

Muzeon park is a unique open air museum of sculpture.

Park Gorkogo.

Neskuchniy Sad which literary means “not boring garden” is the oldest Moscow park the history of which dates back to 1756.

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

Red October chocolate factory and the Peter the Great Statue which is 98-metre-high (322 ft).

Novoandreyevskiy Bridge.

November

Aptekarskiy Ogorod.

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Magnificent England

Hastings

Hastings is a town in East Sussex, England, most famous for the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This town is home to the largest beach-launched fleet in Europe, the ruins of the first castle in England to be built by Willian the Conqueror.

Hastings beach Rock-a-Nore.

Hastings Old Town is a charming mix of beautiful houses, narrow streets, museums, fish market.

Hastings Castle located on a cliff top of the West Hill is a great part of English history from 1066 of modern days. The savage storms of the 13th century brought chaos to Hastings, so the large parts of the castle fell into the sea.

Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve.

Hastings Beach.

Rye

Rye, in East Sussex, is one of England’s most beautiful medieval towns, each street of it has a unique style. If you wander along the Mermaid, Watchbell streets and Church Square you will come across houses declaring they were rebuilt and refurbished in 1450.

Rye Harbour is an amazing place for nature lovers and has a rare coastal landscape. This red roofed hut, also known as Gran’s Hut, is one of the most photographed things. It looks simple but eye-catching. The date it was first built is unknown, but was in use from the early 1900’s to store fishing and shrimping equipment.

Battle

The town of Battle is located in the south east of England, best known for being the site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Each street of this town or even a small corner or a shop has its own unique style and beauty.

Battle museum of local history is set in walled gardens of Battle’s Almonry. This charity-based and independent museum is solely run by volunteers. The museum has a collection covering 125 million years of history in Battle.

Battle Abbey is a partially ruined abbey which was built on the site of the Battle of Hastings by William the Conqueror and Normans as a penance of killing so many people during their conquest of England. The Abbey is dedicated to St.Martin. Its church was finished in about 1094.

Battlefield is now a peaceful place with the beautiful nature and sheep everywhere.

Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill is an ancient seaside town located in the East Sussex.

“And tell me grey seal
How does it feel
To be so wise
To see through eyes
That only see what’s real
Tell me grey seal” (c) Elton John, Bernie Taupin

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Summertime in Moscow 2019

Botanical Garden Aptekarskiy Ogorod

Baby birds growing up process 🙂

VDNKHa

Ostankino Teletower

International historical reconstruction festival called “Times and Epochs” takes place in Moscow every summer. Hunderd of reenactors from different countries recreated various epochs from Antiquity to the 20th century on the streets and boulevards of Moscow. I took some pictures of “Russians in Paris in 1814” which was dedicated to the foreign campaign of 1813-1814, during which the Russian army occupied Paris. Confrontation gave place to a peaceful life many parts of which were represented at this site including different professions of that time, food, costumes, uniaxial cart, ship and horses.

Maya people from Mexico were also visiting Moscow as a part of that historicl festival.

Moscow suburbs

Panoramic Moscow view from the CDM Rooftop.

Red Square at night. State Historical museum.

St. Basil’s Cathedral.

Kazan Cathedral

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Springtime in London

Holland Park.

Japanese Garden.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was founded in 1759 and keep changing since then. It houses the largest and the most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world.

Palm House

The Dutch House is one of the few surviving parts of the Kew Palace complex.

Temperate House.

Ruined Arch.

Japanese Gateway.

Beauty of nature.

Rock Garden.

Marianne North Gallery and The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art.

Chihuly exhibition: Reflections on Nature. The world’s most celebrated contemporary glass artist brought his work to the stunning backdrop of the Kew Gardens.

Chiswick House and Gardens is among the most glorious examples of 18th-century British architecture.

Ionic Temple.

Classic Bridge.

Regent’s Park.

Legendary Abbey Road Studios

Camden Town.

Magnificent Royal Albert Hall.

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Springtime in Moscow 2019

First signs of spring – Snowdrops which start blooming even under the snow! 🙂

First spring flowers look so delicate.

After the rain…

Nature is slowly awakening from a long winter sleep.

Beautiful church on the Easter day. Церковь Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы.

Magnolias are blooming!

Sakura blossom is a kind of wonder.

Moscow Botanical Garden

VDNKHa is a permanent Exhibition show and amusement park.

Apple trees.

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Botanical Garden Aptekarskiy Ogorod.

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Beautiful England

Hastings

Hastings is a town in East Sussex, England, most famous for the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This town is a home to the largest beach-launched fleet in Europe, the ruins of the first castle in England to be built by William the Conqueror.

Hastings Castle located on a cliff top of the West Hill is a great part of English history from 1066 to modern days. The savage storms of the 13th century brought chaos to Hastings, so the large parts of the castle fell into the sea.

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The Old Town is a charming mix of beautiful houses, narrow streets, museums, fish market and famous local sunken ships.

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Pevensey Bay

Pevensey Bay is a beautiful and cozy old fishing village founded in 1600 as Wallsend, the end of the sea wall from Eastbourne.

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Pevensey castle

Pevensey Castle has a history stretching back over 1700 years, beginning in the 4th century as one of the strongest Roman Saxon Shore forts, two-third of whose towered walls still stand. Its impressive ruins stand on what was once a peninsula surrounded by sea and salt marsh projecting from the mainland of the Sussex coast.

Lewes

At the heart of Sussex lies an amazing town of Lewes (probably founded in 6th century), a mixture of medieval streets, old English churches, tiny alleyways. Lewes is also a market town of small independent retailers, bookshops, music shops.

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Harvey’s Brewery.

Established in 1790 and handsomely rebuilt in 1880 by William Bradford. The only survivor of the town’s seven Victorian breweries.

M Hamid Star Pottery

Star Pottery was established in Lewes in 1989 and since then Mohamed Hamid and his students and associates produce a wide range on amazingly beautiful handmade items.

Lewes Castle

Castle was built soon after one of the great turning points in English history. It is more than 900 years old and one of the earliest Norman strongholds in England.

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Ruins of 11th century monastery

Eastbourne

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Redoubt Fortress

Fortress dating back 200 years, was built to defend against Napoleon and was used in WWI and WWII.

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Wish Tower

Martello Tower Number 66

In the beginning of 19th century the British Empire feared a French invasion so 74 Martello towers were built along the Kent and Sussex coastlines from Folkstone to Seaford between 1805 and 1808.

Beachy Head

The White Chalk Cliffs at Beachy Head were formed between 65 and 100 million years ago when the land was completely covered by the sea.

The light from the Beachy Head Lighthouse first shone on the 2nd October 1902.

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Birling Gap and the Seven Sisters

The hills and dips of the chalk cliffs between Cuckmere Haven and Birling Gap all have names. The original Seven Sisters now count as eight due to erosion dividing two of the hills.

The view of the white cliffs just makes you feel so amazed!

There is also a lighthouse built on the hill, the light from which first shone on the 11 October 1834.

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London, St. James Park

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Snowy Moscow

Yakimanskaya embarkment.

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Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and the Red October Factory.

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Muzeon park of arts is a unique open air museum of sculpture.

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Gorky Park.

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MSU Botanical Garden.

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Tropical winter in Moscow botanical garden.

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Krymsky Bridge.

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St. Basil’s Cathedral in the Red Square.

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