Moscow By Night
The first wooden Triumphal Arch was built in Moscow beside the Tver Gates (end of Tverskaya Street, near Berorusskiy Railway station) in the middle of 1814 for the solemn meeting with the victorious Russian troops returning from West Europe after the...
This picture, which I took several hours before the New 2007 Year, I would like to devote for upcoming Orthodox Christmas, which will be celebrated in Russia on 7th of January. I think, that this view on the famous Cathedral of Christ the Savior, whi...
Here is the picture I took with my client Steve Killian during the tour around the Red Square couple weeks before the New 2007 year inside of the famous shopping mall called from the Soviet times as GUM. This name is the short for a Gosudarstvenny Un...
St. Basil's Cathedral on the Red Square looks gorgeous in any season, at any weather. No doubt that you already have seen many pictures of this famous cathedral in Moscow, Russia, and, from my side, I have already posted many pretty interesting pictu...
Illuminated at night in present time, the beautiful red brick building of State Historical museum was built on the Red Square (located behind the building on this picture) in Neo-Russian style by project of prominent architects Sherwood and Semenov b...
This picture I took on the Red Square without tripod - just stopping my brief :). I like this view and really want to devote this photo to the New Year 2006. Here, I would like to tell you several important things, which can help you to understa...
Here is the photo of the famous St. Basil Cathedral, wich was built on the Red Square in the middle of 16th century. I would like to tell you here a part of it's history after October Revolution 1917. In 1918 the communist authorities shot the a...
On this picture you can see the beautiful medieval cathedrals, walls and towers of Moscow Kremlin which were built between end of 15th - begining of 17th century. The Kremlin's cathedrals are only led up during holidays in Russia. This picture, p...
Yesterday, on the first day of 2008, I and my wife Olga decided to drive around the city to take some pictures of winter holiday decorations. I choose the same route which I usually take to show my clients the most famous Moscow landmarks (I call thi...
Here is one more picture from my Night Moscow tour on the first evening of 2008. This photo I took on Bersenievskaya embankment, opposite side to cathedral of Christ the Savoir, and nearby of the Patriarch Bridge. It were so nice reflections of its l...
I took this photo in Manezhnaya square walking with my clients during "Moscow By Night" tour in one day before UEFA Champions League Final 2008. The Manezhnaya square with it's attractive old style lampposts was reconstructed almost 11 years ago on t...
I would like to continue the series of my best pictures which I took with my clients during the Moscow By Night Tour. This picture I took in middle of December 2006 with my client from New Zealand nearby Novodevichy convent, with the view from north-...
Moscow at night - the famous monuments and towers on the Red Square. Here is some info about the details on this photo: Foreground - Monuments: Left side - monument to the Kozma Minin and Prince Dmitri Pozharsky, the heroes of the national stru...
Moscow State University is one of seven skyscrapers, so called "Seven Sisters", built by order of Stalin at the beginning of 50's to change architectural style of Moscow city after demolishing a lot of old buildings, churches and monasteries after So...
On the first evening of 2008 I and my wife Olga decided to go out and take some pictures of the most famous landmarks of Moscow at the beginning of the year. It were a lot of people on the Red Square, even I can say that it was completely full and it...
Here is one more picture for my photo album "Moscow at night", which I took recently right before Catholic Christmas with one of my client from Texas, USA, and I have another title to this picture "Heart of Orthodoxy before Catholic Christmas" :-). M...
I've posted already a lot of interesting pictures of the cathedral of Christ the Savoir, but this time I decided to take a little bit different angle to show you more details of decorations of patriarch bridge. This picture I took without a tripod, f...
Novodevichy (New Maiden's) convent, which located near pond , attracts a lot of tourists for sigthseeing. I like very much this place, very quiet and peaceful here, in spite of that this is very close to center of the city... During for 400 yea...
Here is my new picture from the Red Square, which I took on one evening at the begging of spring season during the Moscow By Night tour with my clients from Florida. I hope, that you like my composition with the might of the old stones on the Red Squ...
The old style pedestrian bridge, called Patriarchy Most (Eng: Patriarch's Bridge), was built at the end of summer 2004 and presently spans the Moscow River between the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya. The bridge is geome...
This photo I took from a new pedestrian bridge, which was built over Moscow-River in 2002, from the side of Raddison Slavyanskaya Hotel and Kievsky Railway Station. This is view on the Savinskaya embankment, not so far from downtown of the city. You ...
VVTs (All-Russian Exhibition Centre, former VDNKh) was established in 1937, and containing of more than 80 pavillions each representing one aspect of the great economic, industrial and technical might of communism, the Exhibition of Economic Achievem...
Patriarchy Bridge on sunrise with the view on a steam over chimneys of a heat and power plant in a cold frosty morning. Old style lamp posts on the bridge make this picture very attractive. In Russia we have popular belief: Smoke rising straight ...
This beautiful church is about 350 years old. It is located on the small ireland on the Bersenievskaya Embankenment, on the other side of the Moscow-River from the Moscow Kremlin. The rumors says that in the middle of 17th century they built a tunnel...
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is the main church in Moscow. This is the biggest church in Russia and symbol of our orthodox religion. It was opened in 1883, in a memory of Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812. This Cathedral had been under cons...
This picture I took in middle of December from the room of my client who came from Ireland and stayed in Hotel Ukraina on 26th floor. Here you can see nice panorama of the Moscow city with the view on the Moscow-River, White House (House of the Gover...
This picture I took nearby hotel Ukraine, from embankment of Tarasa Shevchenko who was the famous writer in Ukraine in Soviet times. Here is the view on Moscow-River, White House (House of Government of Russian Federation) and House of Moscow Governm...
Kitty YipIt was a great trip for my first Moscow visit. Arthur is not only a great guide, he is a great driver, photographer and a very good friend of ours. He is very responsible, experienced, knowledgeable, without him, our trip will not be easy. Definitely I will recommend him to all my friends and will revisit him again for my next visit. Truely from our hearts.
