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Springtime, 2024

May 9, 2024Posted in Nature Photography, TravelsTagged architecture, art, cherry, inspiration, magnolia, moscow, nature, photography, sakura, TravelsLeave a comment

March

Aptekarskiy Ogorod

Founded by Peter the Great in 1706 as a kitchen garden (ogorod) for growing medicinal plants. Since 1805, it has belonged to the Moscow State University as part of the Biology Faculty. You can explore the gardens as well as three different greenhouses.

First snowdrops and other flowers

Artlay Design Center and 4 Seasons market

April

Aptekarskiy Ogorod

Sakura blossom

May

Aptekarskiy Ogorod

Marnolias blossom

Legendary 200 years old Goffman oak

Cherry trees blossom

Bird-cherry blossom

Arkhangelskoe museum-estate

Archangel Michael’s Church is the oldest surviving building on the Arkhangelskoe estate dating from the mid-17th century.

Ryazan, March 2024

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Konstantinovo

The village of Konstantinovo is the place where one of the greatest Russian poets Sergey Esenin was born. Large parts of the village have been preserved as they looked during his time here, including his parents farmstead where he spent his childhood. This place is also worth visiting to see very beautiful nature around the river Oka which flows next to it.

House where Sergey Esenin was born and spent his childhood.

Ryazan

Преображенская Церковь Спаса на Яру

Old Town Hotel Complex

Cathedral Park and Ryazan Kremlin

The Ryazan Kremlin is the oldest part of the city of Ryazan, a historical and architectural open-air museum and one of the oldest museums in Russia. It is believed that fortifications have existed where the Ryzan Kremlin now stands since the end of the 11th century. A four-tier bell tower is one of the tallest bell towers in Russia standing at 86 metres tall, including a 25 metre gold-coated spire.

Postal Street

Chocolate History museum and gallery

Museum of the history of Ryazan lollipop

Museum of the history of the bread

Museum of Perfumes history

Teplo shop

Sunsets and evenings in Ryazan

Almaty, Kazakhstan, Feb 2024

April 21, 2024April 21, 2024Posted in Nature Photography, TravelsTagged almaty, architecture, art, inspiration, kazakhstan, medeu, nature, photography, shymbulak, snow, squirrel, TravelsLeave a comment

Almaty Botanical Garden

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Shymbulak ski resort

First base level, 2200 meters

Second level, 2800 meters

Third level, 3200 meters

Medeu Ski rink

Samal Resort

Gloomy snowy views of mountains and Malaya Almatinka river

Snowy winter 2023/2024

March 1, 2024Posted in Architecture Photography, Nature Photography, TravelsTagged architecture, art, beauty, christmas, inspiration, lifestyle, motivation, nature, newyear, photography, poetry, snow, Travels, winter, writingLeave a comment

Fisrt snow at the Moscow Botanical Garden

New Year vibes at the Artplay design center and Clean Ponds

Kuskovo

Christmas day 2024

Radonezh

Radonezh is an absolutely beautiful village where Sergiy Radonezhsky once lived. The old town of Radonezh is known to have existed since the first half of the 14th century. Transfiguration Church (Церковь Преображения Господня, 1842) along with the nearby Sacred spring, a font and a monument to St. Sergius are located on the outskirts of the village.

Abramtsevo

Abramtsevo Museum Reserve is one of the most famous art museums in Russia. The history of Abramtsevo is associated with the names of artists Segey Aksakov, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Vrubel, Ilya Repin, Vasiliy Polenov, Valentin Serov and Savva Mamontov. Dozens of paintings which are internationally treasured now were created there. Abramtsevo was founded in 18th century.

The architectural gem of Abramtsevo is the Church of the Savior (Церковь Спаса Нерукотворного Образа), built by architect Pavel Samarin, according to designs by the artists Victor Vasnetsov and Vasily Polenov.

Zvenigorod

Skeet of Saint Savva

Savvino-Storozhevskiy Monastery

Landmark Orthodox monastery with a grand exterior and altar frescoes dating to the 1420s.

Mytichshi

Shakhmatovo. The house-museum of Alexander Blok.

Moscow Botanical Garden

VDNKH Exhibition Center

Arkhangelskoe museum-estate

Archangel Michael’s Church is the oldest surviving building on the Arkhangelskoe estate dating from the mid-17th century.

Movie exhibition at Arkhangelskoe

Moscow Botanical Garden

Golden Autumn 2023

January 9, 2024Posted in Architecture Photography, moscow, museum, Nature Photography, TravelsTagged architecture, autumn, botanical-gardens, gardens, goldenautumn, inspiration, landscape, moscow, nature, photography, travel, TravelsLeave a comment

Shakhmatovo. The house-museum of Alexander Blok.

Tarakanovo Manor

Moscow Botanical Garden

The Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden was founded in April 1945, and claims itself to be the largest botanical garden in Europe. It covers a territory of approximately 3.61 km² and contains a live exhibition of more than twenty thousand different species of plants coming from various parts of the world.

Japanese Garden

Serednikovo

Serednikovo estate located in Moscow suburbs represents Russian neoclassical architecture of the 18th century. The estate is surrounded by a magnificent garden with round pond and canals. Serednikovo is a place where Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841), one of the greatest and most famous Russian poets, used to spend summer holidays.

Kuskovo

Kuskovo museum complex in Moscow is a summer estate of the Sheremetev family built in 18th century and includes Summer palace, Grotto, Italian house, Kuskovo Church and Tower bell, Hermitage in English landscape garden, the Dutch house and Orangeries. Grotto pavilion was constructed between 1755 and 1761 and was intended to represent the palace of the King of the Seas. Interior was made of whorled seashells of 24 different types which were delivered from the Mediterranean, Red, Black seas, the Sea of Japan, and reservoirs of the Moscow region.

Baltic Sea, October 2023

November 23, 2023Posted in Architecture Photography, Nature Photography, TravelsTagged architecture, art, autumn, balticsea, inspiration, nature, photography, sea, svetlogorsk, TravelsLeave a comment

Svetlogorsk

The Water tower was built in 1907-1908 in Rauschen. The 25-meter building was designed in the German national romanticism style. Now this is a symbol of Svetlogorsk.

Makarov Organ Hall

Tikhoe (Silent) lake

There is a monument of wildlife near the lake – a linden tree whose age is more than 450 years (the information about this long-lived tree is listed in the Guinness Book of Records).

Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov

The Orthodox Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Svetlogorsk, in the time of East Prussia, was a Lutheran Church. The Church was built in 1903 in the Eastern part of Rauschen. It is located on a hill in a small pine park.

Rainy streets of Svetlogorsk

Cultural space Telegraph

Beautiful autumn decorations everywhere!

Hartman Hotel

Baltic sea

The Curonian Spit (Куршская коса) is a 98-km long, curved sand-dunespit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared by Lithuania and Russia.

Yantarny (Palmniсken)

Yantarny (until 1947 Palmnicken) is an urban-type settlement located in the west of the Kaliningrad region, on the Baltic sea coast. Yantarny is considered the capital of the Amber region. The largest amber reserves in the world (about 90%) are concentrated in Yantarny and there is a unique place of its kind where amber is extracted on an industrial scale by an open method.

Церковь Казанской Иконы Божьей Матери

Zelenogradsk (Cranz)

Beautiful sky

Summertime 2023

September 22, 2023September 22, 2023Posted in Architecture Photography, moscow, Nature Photography, TravelsTagged architecture, art, inspiration, moscow, nature, photography, TravelsLeave a comment

Храм-часовня Святителя Василия Великого

Abramtsevo

Radonezh

Moscow Botanical Garden

Japanese Garden

VDNKH Exhibition Center

Church of the Holy Trinity in Ostankino

The first wooden Trinity Church was built in 1585 and was destroyed in the Time of Troubles. In 1625-27 Prince Cherkassky built a new wooden church. In 1692 a stone church in the name of the Trinity was build which with some modifications survives to this day.

Zvenigorod

A.P. Chekhov’s places in Zvenigorod

Skeet of Saint Savva

Savvino-Storozhevskiy Monastery

Landmark Orthodox monastery with a grand exterior and altar frescoes dating to the 1420s.

England, August 2023

September 15, 2023April 14, 2024Posted in Architecture Photography, england, Nature Photography, Travels, United KingdomTagged architecture, art, eastbourne, england, inspiration, music, nature, photography, Travels, unitedkingdomLeave a comment

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 2^nd October 1902.

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.

St. Leonards On Sea

Warrior Square Gardens

St. Leonards Gardens

Eastbourne

Langham Hotel

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

On the way from London to Istanbul

Springtime, 2023

May 31, 2023June 2, 2023Posted in Architecture Photography, moscow, Nature Photography, TravelsTagged architecture, birdwatching, inspiration, moscow, nature, photography, spring, Travels, vdnkhLeave a comment

March

Snowy days at the Moscow Botanical Garden

Japanese Garden

Snow meltdown

VDNH. The exhibition and trade center of the Republic of Kazakhstan

April

Aptekarskiy ogorod

First snowdrops

Moscow Botanical Garden

Aptekarskiy Ogorod

Cherry trees blossom

VDNH Exhibition center

Apple trees blossom

May

Archangel Michael’s Church

This church is the oldest surviving building on the Arkhangelskoe estate dating from the mid-17th century.

Arkhangelskoe museum-estate

Lilac blossom

Храм-часовня Святителя Василия Великого

VDNH

Sunny England, May 2023

May 28, 2023September 15, 2023Posted in Architecture Photography, england, london, Nature Photography, Travels, United KingdomTagged architecture, beach, beachyhead, bigben, eastbourne, inspiration, london, nature, pevensey, photography, rabbit, sevensisters, TravelsLeave a comment

Eastbourne

The low tide

Sovereugn Harbour

Prince’s Park

Eastbourne beach

Cozy and foggy Eastbourne evenings

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.

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 2^nd October 1902.

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.

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.