Category: Photography
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Krasnoyarsk and the Trans-Siberian – Photos
It’s official – I’m in Siberia. In my head, Siberia has always been solely a barren, freezing, wasteland — but Krasnoyarsk, which is the third largest city in Siberia, is nothing like that. (I recognize that I’m in southern Siberia, which is a far cry from say, the northern stretches of the Lena River). Chekhov…
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Moscow and Trans-Mongolian, Part 1
Just a few pics from my last day/night in Moscow, my first 30-hour stretch on the Trans-Mongolian, and my stop in Yekaterinburg. Nothing too great – train was moving fast, so a lot of blurry images of birch trees, and Yekaterinburg isn’t the most beautiful city I’ve ever stopped in — but its been an…
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Izmailovsky Kremlin
One friendly Russian+no agenda= a super amazing day at a place a bit off the beaten track. Was also lucky enough to witness a few wedding photo sessions here, and one semi-creepy but nonetheless amazing old market place. A particularly friendly Russian gave me a boost over a locked fence to get this shot: (He…
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A Walk down Nevsky Prospekt
Nikolai Gogol, the famous Russian writer, wrote this of Nevsky Prospekt, the most famous thoroughfare of St Petersburg: “Step into it, and you step into a fairground….There is nothing finer than Nevsky Prospekt, not in Petersburg anyway…what splendor does it lack, that the fairest of our city thoroughfares?” He was right. It’s not really a…
Sarah PecK 