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^{Amber-adorned souvenirs on sale in Kaliningrad’s airport. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{Above the banks of Ukraine’s Dnepr River arises Saint Vladimir, the baptizer of Kievan Rus. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{On Bolshoy Solovetsky Island, an oniondomed chapel stands in front of the tiny local airport building, a wooden structure painted azure. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{Dusted with fresh snow, the fifteenthcentury Solovetsky Monastery served as a prison during the early Soviet years. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{Only in Russia: a bactrian camel hailing from the Central Asian realms of the czarist and Soviet empires offers tourists rides through snowy Arkhangelsk, in Russia’s far north. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{In Ulyanovsk, homeland of Vladimir Lenin, the drab architecture of the Lenin Memorial calls to mind the Soviet era. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{In Perm, the Gribushin House, where novelist Boris Pasternak set scenes from his masterpiece, Doctor Zhivago. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{The timeless rural landscape around Perm bespeaks peace and a slow pace of life. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{On Lake Baikal’s Olkhon Island, shaman Gennady Tugulov wears the traditional garb of his spiritual vocation. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Tayler)}

^{A lone protestor takes a stand beneath Novosibirsk’s monument to Lenin. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{Outside the Buryat capital of Ulan-Ude rises the ornately adorned main temple of Ivolginsky Datsan, Russia’s main Buddhist sanctuary. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{Dusk descends on the embankment of the Amur River dividing Blagoveshchensk and the Chinese town of Heihe. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{A flower market graces Yakutsk’s Ordzhonikidze Square, to the delight of locals. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{In the outskirts of Magadan, Russia’s “Gulag capital,” the stark Mask of Sorrow monument calls to mind the victims of Stalin’s Great Terror. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{On land once occupied by Magadan’s House of Soviets now stands the Holy Trinity Cathedral. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Tayler)}

^{Veering northeast into Gulag land, the Kolyma Route (once a dirt track trod by Stalin’s condemned) has been paved and is now officially known as the R504 Kolyma Highway. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{In the rubble of Kolyma’s Butugychag labor camp, where prisoners mined uranium unprotected, abandoned shoes recall the perished. (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}

^{On the way into Vladivostok, the Just Russia party has emblazoned a cement wall with the patriotic catchwords “Crimea is Russian!” (Courtesy of Nina Khrushcheva)}