Russia overview
Here are some pictures from my Russia trip.
My trip was centered around Moscow from where I took trips to Black Sea, Golden Ring cities and St. Petersburg. I had a friend in Moscow, which made traveling very convenient. 
St. Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow
The colorful onion domes are distinctive and no picture of Russia is complete without visiting this place, right on the edge of Red Square.
Sochi: Preparing for the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sochi is Russia’s summer resort, located on Black Sea. It is very convenient to take a ship across the sea and land in Turkey (a route that must be done some day!)
Church of the Intercession on the Nerl river, Bogolyubovo
A charm among Golden Ring cities, consisting of ancient Russian orthodox churches, this is one of the oldest religious structures in Russia. It is located about 200 km north-east of Moscow and is not very touristic.
Moscow Metro – Journey to the center of the earth
Imagine standing on an escalator for two minutes straight. Yes, you need to do that in order to reach the metro platform
St. Petersburg from Dvortsovy (Palace) Bridge
St. Petersburg (Petrograd) is full of European architecture and beautiful artistic stuff sprinkled all over its canals and bridges.
Viborg, near Finland border
Barely 30 km from the Finnish border, I was expecting to see some Vikings with their horn hats and long boats, but alas.
St. Basil’s Cathedral at night, Moscow
My last day in Moscow was as perfect as it could get Thanks Evgeny!
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Priyank,
What splendid photographs! How much more exciting the trip must have been. I shall be eagerly waiting to hear your travel tales.
Congratulations on your new travel blog. I guess am the first to comment on it. Cheers!
↵Wow and wow, excellent shots, the only thing that is missing in the last one is a pic of the Moon,lol
↵Celine:
I will get a bag of candies for you. Will post more, but probably after Bhutan trip! Thanks.
↵Yes you are the first one to comment on the new blog
Bob
↵Pic of moon – I wish the sky was that clear! The weather wasn’t the best
@ Priyank : Nice pictures. It seems like a nice place this Russia unlike the dark gloomy depiction of it in the western media. It seems to me that the metro is so deep because it might also double as a Nuclear Bomb Shelter. I hear it is even deeper in Pyongyang.
↵Oh wow!! Those night shots are awesome. Makes me want to pack my bags right now!! Looking forward to more posts. BTW, how is food in Russia?
↵Great pics, Priyank! Cant wait to read your experiences in Russia.
↵Odzer:
↵Russia was very different from what I thought too. The weather might be dark and gloomy, but the people compensate with their warmth (sounds cliched).
Indeed, the metro was designed to act as a shelter. But that was 100 years ago!
Vamsee:
Welcome to my brand new blog and thanks for the comment.
Food in Russia is well, meat – morning noon and night. I will make a separate post for food
It is non spicy but pretty interesting considering how big Russia is.
↵Gopi:
Nice to see you here. I will post regularly once I am back from Bhutan.
↵Thanks
Priyank, I tried to leave a comment yesterday too but could not! So now you are off to Bhutan!!! Oh boy! Lovely pictures from Russia, absolutey smashing.
↵beautiful pictures Priyank..I have always been fascinated by Russia as I used to read a lot of russian novels earlier and then of course the spy stories..
and congrats and I wish I could fly to bhutan as well..went so close to sikkim ..but ,missed going there
↵Mridula:
↵Sorry to hear you had problems, the site still behaves unpredictably. Thanks for the comments
Lakshmi:
↵Me too! There was a while when I was completely submerged in the works of Russian writers! Thanks for the wishes
Beautiful photos. More please!
↵Ok so this is what kept u busy, it looks great and exciting, loved the church pic and the St Peter’s pic from the bridge wth the water showing in the darkness.
Waiting in anticipation of the stories, my Priyank, u really must be a very hard worker, to write so well, regularly, plus manage the website – really proud to know you. You are very artistic too, ur pages are all such a visual treat for the eyes and ur page loaded quite fast this time.
all the best for Bhutan, wh, it seems, is a country with one of the world’s highest happiness quotients
↵Wendy:
↵Thanks! More soon…
Trisha: Thanks for your comments.
↵i really like these photos of Moscow…especially the last one…great shots
↵Great pics. I am assuming we are still gonna see some more posts in detail about Russia… You didn’t travel to the Georgian border areas, did you?
↵Catherine:
↵Welcome to my website! Glad to know you like the pics. Thanks for the comments, and do come back!
Shantanu:
Yes ofcourse, there will be lot of stories from Russia after I come back from Bhutan
I did go to Sochi, which is pretty close to Georgian border. However it is a very safe zone.
↵Hey !
Didn’t subscribe to this site RSS and so missed out on this post … I’d surely like to see more details of your Russia trip when you’re back.
Also I always thought the name of your host is spelled “Yevgeny”.
And please include the widget which shows polaroids of places that you’ve been to on your masthead … that thing is so cool.
↵BB (Harshal)
Dude, that’s a funny name.
Evgeny or Yevgeny or Eugene, there are could be so many variations because its the English version of Russian name Евгений.
Re: Header with polaroid. I have to do something new because that layout was not forward version compatible. But thanks, will do
↵Lovely pictures Priyank !
↵So richly coloured.
Waiting to hear more on your both the trips.
Hey Priyank these are beautiful images, amazing I must say again. I love orthodox churches, they have so much character, and color. Anna
Happy travels….
↵Dude I guess that bridge in SPb was Dvortsovy (Palace) Bridge – Lt. Shmidta is further down the river
↵Cuckoo:
↵Sure, updates will follow! Thanks!
Anna:
↵I loved visiting orthodox churches too, they are so different, and musical
Evgeny:
I remember – we crossed the bridge and then crossed the street to take this picture before the nice sky disappeared!
↵Ah, comrade! Absolutely right. I am changing the text now
Your trips looks very interesting……………..Russia looks to be so colorful?? Nice & refreshing!
Have a nice time!
↵Wonderful pics! But what happened to the detailed trip to Russia?? No posts on that?
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Dude I am confused. Should I write about Russia or Bhutan first ? lol!
↵You have got some incredible shots!! Fell in love with St Petersburg snap, it is beautiful!!
↵Thanks Seema, I’m glad you enjoyed this!
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↵fantastic – i like the way u planned ur vacation – 3 weeks in russia and then India!!! nice! and brilliant photos. did u travel alone? waiting for u to start the russian narration.
↵Thanks Neeraja!
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