I figured everyone would be tired of all the NaNoWriMo reporting, so here are a couple pictures from my home city of Yaroslavl, from of nohobot on Flickr. I hope you don’t mind me using these, because they are gorgeous and evoke a definite sense of longing. The NaNoWriMo Day 4 post is below.
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I’m always amazed at the beautiful church architecture that managed to survive the Soviet era … granted a large number of churches and monasteries were used as warehouses or horse stables or some such and the inside is often ramshackle, but in general, at least the outer shells have survived. Beautiful!
This (Orthodox churches and monestaries) was the most beautiful part of Russia for me when I went back a couple years ago, and I think, the one that holds the most hope in being rebuilt, better than the economy, that’s for sure.