Mosaics on the floor of the side chapel, part of the World War II Memorial at Saint Thomas Church in New York.28.09.2015#2712983
An altar with book, part of the World War II Memorial at Saint Thomas Church in New York.28.09.2015#2712982
President Dmitry Medvedev, left, inspecting the main temple of the Ivolginsky datsan (Buddhist monastery) on August 24, 2009. On the right: head of Russian Buddhists Pandido Khambo Lama Damba Ayushev.24.08.2009#435361
President Dmitry Medvedev, right, inspecting the main temple of the Ivolginsky datsan (Buddhist monastery) on August 24, 2009. On the left: head of Russian Buddhists Pandido Khambo Lama Damba Ayushev.24.08.2009#435362
A monk of the Ivolginsky Datsan, the biggest Buddhist monastery located in the village of Verkhnyaya Ivolga.24.08.2009#435310
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's official visit to Hungary, September 8-9, 2003. The prime minister's wife Irina Kasyanova, second right, and Katalin Medgyessy, wife of the Hungarian prime minister, second left, during their visit to the St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest.08.09.2003#6458570
In Hagia Sophia Cathedral,former patriarchal Orthodox Cathedral,later a mosque,now a museum.World famous monument of Byzantine architecture (324-337).Republic of Turkey.01.06.2000#687118
The tent and iconostasis of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (St. Basil's Cathedral) in Moscow. The cathedral was erected in 1555–1561 at the behest of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in honor of the conquest of the Kazan Kingdom.05.07.1998#8286870
Ornamental painting in the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (St. Basil's Cathedral) in Moscow.05.07.1998#8286869
In the Cathedral of Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul. The St. Catherine Church, where the remains of the last Russian Emperor Nikolai II, Empress Aleksandra Fyodorovna, their children, physician-in-ordinary E.S. Botkin and the servants, who were killed in Yekaterinburg in 1918, were buried on June 17, 1998.16.06.1998#630583
The Metochion of the Valaam Transfiguration Monastery. The service at the icon of the Virgin of Valaam.01.03.1996#541789
The Metochion of the Valaam Transfiguration Monastery. The service at the icon of the Virgin of Valaam.01.03.1996#541787
Intercession of the Theotokos. Archimandrite Jerome during a service at the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in the Vladimir Region.14.10.1995#8263577
Intercession of the Theotokos. Archimandrite Jerome during a service at the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in the Vladimir Region.14.10.1995#8263568
Intercession of the Theotokos. Parishioners at a service at the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in the Vladimir Region.14.10.1995#8263567
The Iveron icon of the Virgin in the chapel near Voskresenskiye gates on the Red Square.01.10.1995#541813
The Iveron icon of the Virgin in the chapel near Voskresenskiye gates on the Red Square.01.10.1995#541812
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia is serving the divine liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.01.05.1993#542002
The Window with the Three Kings stained glass of the north side nave of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. Above is the scene of the adoration of the three Magi, center: Saints Peter, the Mother of God, Elizabeth and Christopher.16.03.1992#8243078
Believers attend a Christmas divine service at the Dormition Cathedral in the Kremlin.07.01.1992#8237946
A prayer service at the Cathedral of Dormition of the Mother of God on the opening day of Sozvezdiye-91 Third All-Union Festival of Soviet Film Actors, which took place in Smolensk on February 23 - March 2, 1991.23.02.1991#8149106
Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church chaired by Metropolitan Philaret of Kiev and All Ukraine at the patriarchal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. Preparation of the Local Council for the election of a new Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus.06.06.1990#8314724
Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church chaired by Metropolitan Philaret of Kiev and All Ukraine at the patriarchal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. Preparation of the Local Council for the election of a new Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus.06.06.1990#8314723
Optina Pustyn is a stavropegic monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church near the city of Kozelsk, Kaluga Region. A lunch at the monastery refectory.03.07.1989#6639000
Second left: Viktor Novikov, leader of the Sobor public movement, professor at the Department of Social and Political Psycology at Demidov Yaroslavl State University, is taking part in restoring a church in Yaroslavl.20.05.1989#8212863
Surviving fragments of frescoes in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Foros, Crimean ASSR.05.05.1989#8448583
A detail of the sanctuary Doors at the 17th Trinity-Gledensky Monastery in Veliky Ustyug, the Vologda Region.01.02.1989#8228728
Ukrainian SSR. Archpriest of St. Nicholas Church in Zaporozhye Thaddeus Kulikov during the church office.02.07.1988#6567363
Ukrainian SSR. Parishioners are seen during a service in St. Nicholas church in Zhaporozhye.02.07.1988#6567361
Ukrainian SSR. Parishioners are seen coming to St. Nicholas church in Zhaporozhye (the city's oldest church).02.07.1988#6567360
Ukrainian SSR. Archpriest of St. Nicholas Church in Zaporozhye Thaddeus Kulikov during the church office.02.07.1988#6567357
Bishop Isidore of Krasnodar and Kuban giving a sermon in the Episcopal Cathedral in the city of Krasnodar.01.01.1988#815116
The Washington Cathedral. Soviet and American priests' joint religious service for the successful completion of the Soviet-American talks.08.12.1987#790328
A participant in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, rector of the Moscow Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign in Aksinino, Peter Raina is at home with his family.01.11.1986#8551404
Buryat ASSR. Children seen here near Ivolginsky Datsan 'Hambyn Sume' in Verkhnyaya Ivolga.01.07.1984#5848713
Buryat ASSR. Ivolginsky Datsan 'Hambyn Sume' in Verkhnyaya Ivolga. Lamas head to a service.01.07.1984#5848712
Buryat ASSR. Ivolginsky Datsan 'Hambyn Sume' in Verkhnyaya Ivolga. The head of the Soviet Buddhists Pandit Hambo Lama Zhimba-Zhamso Erdyneyev during a service.01.07.1984#5848708
Father Nikolai, a student at the Moscow Theological Seminary in Zagorsk, is seen at home with his children.15.06.1984#8300661
Father Nikolai, a student at the Moscow Theological Seminary in Zagorsk, is seen showing young artists frescoes in the Intercession Academic Church of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Zagorsk.15.06.1984#8300660
