Churches of Siberia
Spires along the Trans-Siberian Railway - Part I
Skyline of Moscow's Kremlin with St Basil's Cathedral (to the very right) and Ivan the Great Bell Tower (in the middle)
Listen to a snippet from a Russian Orthodox church service in Yekaterinburg's Church of All Saints while you see through the photos:
1185 rebuilt Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir, added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 1992
Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg. The church was built 2000 - 2003 to commemorate Tsar Nicolas II and his family who were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918 here
1758 built baroque Raising of the Cross Church in Irkutsk
The Church of the Saviour in Tyumen was used as a prison, an archive and a library after the October Revolution in 1917
A pictoresque wooden church stands on a hill above Port Baikal and faces Lake Baikal
Museum of Crystal, Lacquer Miniatures and Embroidery in Vladimir - it obviously used to be a church
Yekaterinburg's Church of All Saints spotted from Vysotskiy Viewing Platform
Part of the breathtaking Kremlin in Tobolsk
The icon of Russia: Famous St. Basil's Cathedral on Moscow's Red Square, created in 1561
Wooden church of the 18th century in the Architectural-Ethnographic Museum near Perm
Looking up from Tobolsk's rundown low town to the glamorous Kremlin - though the steeple doesn't look too solid, does it?
Another view of Vladimir's Assumption Cathedral
Chapel of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Karaulnaya Hill in Krasnoyarsk, designed in 1855 - compare the 10-rouble banknote below!
Third and last shot of the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg - it certainly is a highlight!
more parts coming soon ...
