The Soviet Union / USSR
Student to Student Peace Exchange
In March of 1983, I participated in a two-week peace exchange while visiting the former Soviet Union. The trip was organized by The Collins Acadaemy in Seattle, Washington. It was the height of the Cold War, with U.S. - Soviet relations at a state of intense entente. The intent of the exchange was to foster peace through sharing understanding among students.
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Red Square, Moscow
Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk) Monastery Near Moscow
Young Pioneer Palace, Moscow
Having walked past the Kremlin walls, St. Basils Cathedral. Built between 1555 and 1561, on the orders of Ivan the Terrible, the cathedral commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.
Young Pioneer Palace, Moscow
Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk) Monastery Near Moscow
Young Pioneer Palace, Moscow
We were greeted by school children of all ages to tour their school. They were learning multiple foreign languages, and surprised us with a concert, singing John Lennon songs with guitar accompaniment.
Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk) Monastery Near Moscow
Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk) Monastery Near Moscow
Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk) Monastery Near Moscow
The city developed around the fortified walls of the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery, which was founded there in 1337-40 by St. Sergius of Radonezh. A theological seminary founded in 1742 remains the principal seminary of Russia.
Bolshoi Ballet
Military Cemetary Eternal Flame
Sergiyev Posad (Zagorsk) Monastery Near Moscow
Before the October Revolution the Bolshoi was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire.
Leningrad / St. Petersburg
Military Cemetary Eternal Flame
Military Cemetary Eternal Flame
The Winter Palace on St. Basils Island, adjacent to the Baltic Sea. Czar Peter the Great heralded-in Western art and culture.
Military Cemetary Eternal Flame
Military Cemetary Eternal Flame
Military Cemetary Eternal Flame
Our InTourist guides brought us to many memorials and cemeteries filled by the world wars.