A piece of Russia

[carla_flydance]

I remember I promise to post here some russian photos from my travelling throught my country. I'm going now to fulfil my promise, I'll post some photos from my journeys to Rostov, Saratov, Samara and some other russian cities and villages. I hope you'll enjoy it.

What did you know about Russia?

Comments

[nick_101]

Those are pretty interesting photos. :)

[carla_flydance]

Thanks

[carla_flydance]

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[phee]

Wow thanks for this post!! Russia is so pretty!!!

[carla_flydance]

Thank you) I'm glad you like my country)))

[teaforone]

Love the pictures! Russia is very pretty! :)

[carla_flydance]

Thank you))) I'm glad when people like Russia)

[blur_kiwi]

Fantastic! Thank you dear. I guess it's like so many places, get away from the cities, from the hustle and bustle, from the people, and there are beautiful things to see and beautiful places to be.

I find it fascinating about Russian churches and monastaries, of all types, just how ornate they are. Here churches tend to be very plain. They may be sophisticated in design, but they are not decorated and colourful like Russian churches. When I was in Spb, Lia's friend Kate took me to a small church just outside the city to the north that her father had helped renovate and, after all the ornate churches in the city, suddenly I saw something I recognised as being a church - it was plain, simple, and Gothic.

The painted wooden buildings in your photos are wonderful. They are ornate and simple at the same time - really interesting.

That variety and that practicality are things (among many others) that I love about Russia. :))

[carla_flydance]

Thank you. :)))))))) We have so many beautiful places where you can relax far away from the city, they're almost wild but difficuld to reach. And that's amasing. Even if you're on a bike

It is funny but I sometimes think that our churches are too much decorated. Thought I like how they look outside, I can't stand them inside at all. And the problem isn't that I don't like how they look. I don't know why I always feel so dizzy and sick inside, I swooned so nmany times here. Probably they are just too stuffy and smelled with incenses.

[blur_kiwi]

I'm so glad to read that. I have to confess, I didn't go inside any Russian churches because I feel exactly the same. That kind of adornment is just too much for me. I'm not a religious person but I still love buildings, and that includes churches. I love the way they sit in the landscape and I admire the faith and commitment that brings them into being. But I also like them to be plain

[carla_flydance]

I'm not a religious person, but inside some churches for example in Austria or in Prague I had strange feelings, it was so comfortable there and so relaxed......I have never felt something like that in russian churches thought they are beautiful without any doubt. I prefer to look from some distance.

Still I like going in the cathederals in Europe but not in Russia. It is much more suitable for me probably.