A breathtaking photo collection depicting Russia, enveloped in snow and utterly bewitching
Russian winter is unthinkable without snow. And though it was unnaturally warm for December (so we had to carry umbrellas and change into autumn clothes), the winter has finally set in and covered the country with long-awaited snow. The Pravoslavie.ru website is offering you a gallery of selected photographs of Holy Russia (Rus’) in winter—its nature, people and churches. We wish our readers to spend the Christmas holidays to the benefit of body and soul.
Sunny forest
(photo by Sergei Malinin)
Frost on Theophany
(photo by Archbishop Maximilian (Lazarenko) / Expo.Pravoslavie.Ru)
First snow on the Sherna river (a river in the Vladimir and Moscow regions). A view of the St. Nicholas Church
(photo by Irina Beloturova)
The Kantyube Mountain, Urals
(photo by Alexei Klekovkin)
The Church of St. Dimitry Prilutsky on Navolok, the city of Vologda
(photo by Archbishop Maximilian (Lazarenko) / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
(Photo by Archbishop Maximilian (Lazarenko) / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
Solovki Monastery
(photo by Sergei Veretennikov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
St. Andrew’s Church
(photo by Sergei Veretennikov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
(Photo by Sergei Veretennikov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
The bells ring joyfully in frosty weather
(photo by Sergei Veretennikov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
(Photo by Sergei Veretennikov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
The first ray of light
(photo by Sergei Veretennikov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
Theophany immersion
(photo by Vladimir Khodakov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
Sunset
(photo by Anatoly Zabolotsky / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
The Lavra
(photo by Hierodeacon Gerasim (Pichugin) / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
A Nativity scene in Yakutia
(photo by Marina Yurchenko / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
A Nativity scene in Yakutia
(photo by Marina Yurchenko / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
Frosty haze
(photo by Marina Yurchenko / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru)
The Crimea in winter
(photo by Daniel Korzhonov)
The Crimea in winter
(photo by Sergei Yershov)
The Holy Trinity Church in Antarctica
The last ray
(photo by Daniel Korzhonov)
Photo by Vladimir
His Holiness Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All the Russias
photo by Vladimir Khodakov / Expo.Pravoslavie.ru
Belaya Gora (White Mountain) and surroundings (a name of a mountain and village in the Perm region)
Belogorsky St. Nicholas Monastery, Perm region
(photo by Vadim Balakin / Severniye Zemli)
Around Belaya Gora
(photo by Vladimir Chuprikov)
A winter landscape in Belaya Gora area
(photo by Vladimir Chuprikov)
Winter magic
(photo by Vladimir)
Svetlaya (Bright) Bay, sea of Okhotsk
(photo by Alexei Gnezdilov)
The Baptism of the Lord
(photo by Vladimir Yeshtokin / Expo.Pravoslavie.Ru)
A Russian village
Winter sunrise above the Istra river, the Moscow region
(photo by Andrei Ulyashev)
Ice on Lake Baikal
(photo by Daniel Korzhonov)
Nighttime fairy tale
(photo by Maxim Yevdokimov)
A monk fees a winter bird
(photo by Anatoly Zabolotsky / Expo.Pravoslavie.Ru)
The sun illumines the trees covered in hoarfrost
(photo by Vitaly from N-sk)
Photo by Marateaman
Friends
(photo by Elena Shumilova)
(Photo by Elena Shumilova)
Kazakhstan, Lake Borovoye, the Goluboy Zaliv (Blue Bay) inlet
(photo by Leonid Dyachenko)
Frost and the sun
(photo by Viktor Kornyushin / Expo.Pravoslavie.Ru)
Winter sunrise
(photo by Ilia Melnikov)
Winter sleep
(photo by Tatiana Smirnova)
A lovely evening on Green Mountain, Sheregesh, the Kemerovo region
(photo by Valery Peshkov)
Frost and the sun
(photo by Marina Nikiforova)
The ragged sky
(photo by Marina Brydnya)
The Church of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God in Red Square
Prepared by Anton Pospelov
Translation by Dmitry Lapa
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