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Russia pictures

Monday, September 29th, 2008

In this last installment, I've included pictures from my trip to Moscow in March and April. The pictures start with an overwhelming trip I took on my first night in Moscow to downtown and the red Square which was totally unreal. There are some pictures of my hotel and where I worked every day (the Russian Space Institute Building).

I took many day trips on the weekends with my friend Natasha and several others from the institute. We visited the Kremlin, several art galleries, and visited all parts of Moscow. I was lucky enough to be driven out to the Monastery of St. Sergius in the Russian countryside and those pictures are included. Additionally there are pictures of various places around Moscow and Tsaritsnayo.

Finally, there are pictures of me and my colleagues at the Center for Ecology and Productivity of Forests who made my trip a wonderful and memorable experience.

I will post summer pictures in the coming weeks to get caught up.

~ D

Going away party at the institute, April, 2008. Dmitry and I.

Boat trip on the Moscow river

Hard work at the institute

At Tsaritsnayo

My colleague Natasha and I

Friday at the Institute

Dmitry and I working at the institute

Tsaritsyno

Tsaritsnayo

bird

Moscow State University

Party at the space institute

Woman, man

Gravesite of St. Sergius

The line to kiss the grave of St. Sergius (I waited in line and touched the grave, but did not kiss it)

Me at the Monastery

Boris and his family at the Monastery of St. Sergius-Latva

Birds

Old Woman

Goofing off at the institute

Lena and I at the Tsar bell, the Kremlin

Natasha

My colleague Lena and I at the gallery

Many cathedrals within the Kremlin

One of the rooms in the Tetryakov Gallery

Saturday Afternoon, Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer

Children

Historical museum downtown, Moscow.

Statue of Peter the Great

Downtown Moscow on a cold winter night.

Two men

Detail of Cathedral walls

Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer - March 2008

Russian Space Institute, where I worked during my stay.

My walk to the bus stop each morning. I learned how to read Cyrillic after about 1 week, although I couldn't always understand what the sentences meant.

My hotel, home sweet home for 1 month

My colleague Natasha and me at the Center for Ecology and Productivity of Forests, Russian Academy of Sciences at the Russian Space Institute, Moscow.

Museum on Red Square

St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin, and Red Square, Moscow, March, 2008

Me at St. Basil's Cathedral - it was particularly cold this evening.

St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, March

January and February, 2008

Hi everyone,

I am slowly beginning to document the past year 2008. Starting from where I left off, I visited family in Florida, spent New Year's Eve overlooking Central Park in Manhattan, passed my PhD qualification exams at UVA, organized an outreach program for children to learn about nature and the environment at a local nature preserve, and continued in the Big Siblings program. There are some pictures from all of that, as well as some from a trip to West Virginia to camp with my friends Ami and Maria, my dog Queso, and her friend Vega (Ami's dog).

There is more to come!

~ D