Parus Hotel

this is for the girls coming in the winter

by suvaa003

girls, when you are planning a trip to come to russia in the winter, bring waterproof mascara. I will tell you why. If it snows, your mascara will run out. But when it starts to freze and the temperatures will get very low, all the hairs in your face will freeze up, and that means your eyelashes too. The things is, when you get insite is very hot and they will thawn, adn can you imagen waht you will look like, yes like a soldar that has forgotte to take of his camouflage paint. It happend to me, And i can tell you I did look a sight for sour eyes. Take spikes for your shoes, when you come in the winter, in the cities it can get very slippery, and falling can be painfull You can buy everything here, but while you are traveling take toilet paper with you. On the fast trains you will be okay, but in the towns, public toilets and so on there is hardly any, but you can buy it in russia films are much cheaper here, and you can get them developed in the big cities within a hour

The war memorial

by Upstate1NY

Due to time constraints I was only able to view the war memorial in passing as we moved from one location to the next,. The war memorial, as with all most every Russian city I have been in, is a thoughtful composition, artistically designed and skillfully rendered with great sensitivity.

Yekaterineburg

by Upstate1NY

"Yekaterinburg, a name, a foot note, in history"

Cathedral of the Holy Royal Martyrs. Built on the site of the house where the last royal family of Imperial Russia was murdered on orders of Viladimir Lenin. Boris Yeltsin had the house demolished after the collapse of the Soviet era. This Cathedral was built to commemorate and homor the victims the atrocity that was committed here.

"The detail of sculpture commenorating the family"