They can be beautiful and stylish, grey and anonymous, or resemble a bag of liquorice allsorts . But Russian churches are rarely boring, with their peculiar onion-shaped cupolas and often cubic formed buildings. During the time of communism, many churches were destroyed or failed to be maintained; but fortunately today the Russians are trying to make up for that by restoring and reconstructing the old churches. In the big cities, this process has gone far, while things have progressed more slowly in the province.
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 Cathedral of the Assumption (Sergiev Posad). |
 Cathedral of the Assumption (Kremlin, Moscow). |
 The Kremlin in Rostov-Veliky |
 Church of St Dmitry (Uglich). |
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 Church of St Dmitry (Uglich). |
 St Basil’s Cathedral (The Red Square, Moscow). |
 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow). |
 St Basil’s Cathedral (The Red Square, Moscow). |
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 Cathedral of the Assumption (Sergiev Posad). |
 Assumption Church
(Nizhny Novgorod). |
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 Church of the Intercession
on the Nerl (Golden Ring). |
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 Cathedral of the Assumption (Sergiev Posad). |
 The Flooded Church (Lake Ladoga). |
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 Trinity Cathedral (Saratov). |
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 St Isaac’s Cathedral (St Petersburg). |
 The Kremlin (Solovetsky Islands). |
 Transfiguration Church (Kizhi Island). |
 Transfiguration Church (left) and Church of the Intercession (right) on Kizhi Island. |
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 Cathedral of the Assumption (Khabarovsk). |
 SS Peter and Paul Cathedral
(St Petersburg). |
 Church of the Resurrection
(St Petersburg). |
 The 22-domed Transfiguration Church (Kizhi Island). |
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 Cathedral of the Assumption (Sergiev Posad). |
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 The church in an abandoned mining town in Kalar Mountains, Siberia |
