City Photos News Russia/Pskov

Winter in Pskov: Pskov Krom (Kremlin) on the Pskova River

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:44:23 +0000

Winter in Pskov: Pskov Krom (Kremlin) on the Pskova River.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Winter in Pskov: Velikaya River

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:44:21 +0000

Winter in Pskov: Velikaya River.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Pskov Kremlin over the Pskova river

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:40:47 +0000

Pskov Kremlin over the Pskova river.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Church of the Anastasiya the Roman

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:40:45 +0000

Church of the Anastasiya the Roman.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Gulls leaving an unfinished construction site

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:37:03 +0000

Gulls leaving an unfinished construction site.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Gulls leaving an unfinished construction site

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:37:02 +0000

Gulls leaving an unfinished construction site.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Snyatogorskiy nunnery

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:35:51 +0000

Snyatogorskiy nunnery.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Snyatogorskiy nunnery

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:35:50 +0000

Snyatogorskiy nunnery.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Old belfry in the Snyatogorskiy nunnery

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:32:19 +0000

Old belfry in the Snyatogorskiy nunnery.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

A house in Pskov

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:32:16 +0000

A house in Pskov.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

In Pskov Krom

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:13:47 +0000

In Pskov Krom

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:13:47 +0000

When in 1581 the king of the Polish and Lettish United Kingdom, Stephen Bathorius, besieged Pskov, he wrote: 'My Lord! what a big and beautiful city! I swear it looks better than Paris; God help us seize it'". God didn't. The curved corridor is called "zakhab" - in old Russian it meant something like "catcher", "trap", "grabber". When an enmy managed to break through the main gate he found himself in this narrow, bent passage, with another gates ahead, archers (or people throwing stones, pouring boiling water, etc.) over their heads, - and, then, a grid suddenly blocking the retreat path.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Gulls swarming out of an unfinished hotel building

Mon, 22 May 2006 09:41:54 +0000

Gulls swarming out of an unfinished hotel building.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

Lenin Street in Pskov

Mon, 22 May 2006 09:41:54 +0000

Lenin Street in Pskov.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.

old boats on Zalit (Talabsky) Island

Mon, 22 May 2006 09:25:09 +0000

Talabsky Isles on the Pskov Lake are three small patches of land - two of them harbor two small villages, a couople of churches, a WW2 memorial ro Russian mariners who were reflecting the Nazies here, and a small fishery enterprize; the third iselet is a home for countless sea-gulls, swallows, swifts and other birds http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=58.003641&lon=28.044491&z=13&l=1&m=h&v=2.
Pskov, Russia, photo by Pavel Viaznikov.