Russia

Colourful House in the Center of Moscow

One day walking around the historical center of Moscow, I turned somewhere and have found three abandoned houses staying near. Two of them were closed but in one there was an opened window. Looked around – and then immediately went inside! Unfortunately, it wasn’t understandable, what for was this building used before, but inside I […]

June 1, 2017
Photo Diary: Abandoned Izbas in Russia

Leningradskoe shosse, the Moscow-St. Petersburg route, some of us have already done this road, but never even thought what is hidden between these most beautiful cities of Russia. And between them – real Russia: poor, half abandoned, hardly trying to survive.

May 22, 2017
Museum of war

How do you find a situation when the city starts the project to tell about the most important event for it, in quite large-scale forms, and then suddenly it runs out of money? Awkward, isn’t it? Such a story happened with the Sevastopol Defense Museum, which they tried to build exactly in the city center, […]

May 14, 2017
Ghosts of the past

Almost every building in Sevastopol is somehow connected with the war. The defense of the city lasted exactly 250 days, so the Hitlerites during this time were occupuing some of the houses in the city, leaving their traces… “Haunted House” in the heart of Sevastopol isn’t the exception.

May 13, 2017
Playing on the bones of ancestors

It amazes me, how the place where hundreds of people were killed or tortured, turned out to be now a popular place for barbecue, games and lots of fun. But here it is – Maksimova Dacha (Maksimov villa) in Sevastopol, Crimea.

March 27, 2017
Sophia Loren was here…

35 years ago this was the place where the Russian-Italian movie “Sunflower” was filmed, with Sophia Loren walking down this escalator. And today it is completely ruined. Can you imagine this? Could Sophia Loren imagine this? Let’s see!

March 27, 2017