St. Trinity Church I try to take regular walks in Vorobyovy Gory, one of my all-time favourite places in Moscow. In fact, I would love to live close enough to be able to go there every other day. This...
Christ the Saviour Cathedral Christ the Saviour Cathedral I am reading Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, the Russian 1933 Nobel Laureate in Literature. In the 1917-18 Diary that precedes the narrative...
A Synagogue and Jewish Cultural Centre When I decided to write about Moscow churches, the last thing I wanted was to focus the entire feature on Orthodox churches. After all, there are Old Orthodox ch...
St Basil Cathedral, Moscow, Russia Moscow’s Saint Basil’s Cathedral Is 450 see larger image uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia | add comment uploaded by loscua...
St Basil Cathedral seen from the Moskva River, Moscow, Russia Moscow Summer 10, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I took the picture two weeks ago when I went on a Moskva River cruise. St. B...
One of Moscow’s celebrated monuments, The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat, otherwise known as St Basil’s Cathedral, marks its 450th anniversary today. The celebrati...
I quite like the adverb “religiously”: it illustrates the practice that is not unknown to me. I used to religiously go to the library, to town, I watched films religiously, like, The Adven...
Church of Cosma and Damian Embassy of Belarus Maroseika, 12 The church of the Unmercenary Healers of Cosma and Damian stands on the corner of Maroseika St and Starosadsky Lane (Side-Street). Both stre...
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, popularly known as Saint Basil’s Cathedral (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного), is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Re...
This was one of those decisive moments: when I walked into the territory of the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery today, the first thing I saw was the priest walking with a holy book in hands. The scen...