Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl
Originally uploaded by eva_p

Yaroslavl is one of the "Golden Ring" cities. It has a beautiful Kremlin and a lot of more or less hidden churches. In this one, people were preparing a celebration and putting grass on the floor and decorating the church with birch branches.

"Remont"

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Originally uploaded by eva_p

is a word we come across a lot in Russia. It means "repair" and can be used in all kinds of contexts (mobile phones, cars, shoes, buildings, churches). This is a picture of the cathedral in Rostov Veliky's Kremlin (one of the "Golden Ring" Cities around Moscow), it was in "remont" when we were visiting.