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Catherine Park, Marble Bridge 1772-1774
Architect Vasily Neyelov
Catherine Park. Cameron Gallery. View of the Colonnade.
Charles Cameron was an architect and interior designer from Scotland, who went to Russia in 1779, summoned by Catherine the Great. He was one of the Empress’s favorite designers, and worked at Tsarskoe Selo for over fifteen years.
Moscow, St Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin at night
1995
50 year anniversary of the end of World War II
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Moscow 1992
Photograph by Herb Ritts
From the book: Notorious
Tsarskoye Selo, Catherine Park, Hermitage Pavillion 1749-1754 (outside St Petersburg)
Czar’s Village, Statue of Alexander Pushkin in the garden of the Lyceum. 1900, sculptor Robert Bach
Both postcards are from the Catherine the Great Palace in Tsarskoye Selo.
April 12 is International Day of Human Space Flight. It commemorates the anniversary of the first human manned space flight buy Yuri Gargarin on April 12, 1961. Gargarin was 27 years old and he circled the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Here I am holding my child up against the statue of Yuri Gargarin in Moscow, Russia. I love that statue.
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