Thursday, June 27, 2019

POTD: Assumption Cathedral and Eternal Flame

From 2018 08 18 Yaroslavl
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Yaroslavl, Russia, one of the Golden Ring cities northeast of Moscow. In the background is Assumption Cathedral, rebuilt in 2010 after the original was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1937. But it's the eternal flame in the foreground that strikes me most. Russia suffered unimaginable losses during World War II. Estimates of the dead, military and civilian, are 20 million people, or even higher.

Bonus photos after the jump.


From 2018 08 18 Yaroslavl

From 2018 08 18 Yaroslavl

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