A Year Later . . .

It's been a year since I went to Russia and had a life-changing experience there. It was during that trip that I felt a real call to that country. Just a couple of months later, Rebecca felt the same call when she was in Russia. Talk about providence. To commemorate this milestone, I will post some photos from that trip. Enjoy.

Memorial to the unknown soldiers.

Monument listing names of people politically repressed, i.e. died in prisons, camps, or simply disappeared, during the reign of Josef Stalin.

There were literally name upon names. This was just for the area around Ekaterinburg, not for the entire country.

This is a statue of Tsar Nicolas II and his family outside of a church built on the site of where they were brutally murdered.

One of the churches at the monastery dedicated to the Tsar Nicolas II and his family. It is built around the site where they were buried after their murder.

One of the children in the orphanage we went to, it was really cool.

Some more children at the orphanage.

The gang from the baptist college in Florida and myself in the most recognizable Russian Orthodox Church in the world, St. Basil's.