03 November, Sunday
Russian nun crosses herself during the ceremony of handing over 250 Orthodox icons illegally smuggled out of Russia and returned by the US and Italian authorities. The ceremony took place in the Svyato-Danilovsky Monastery.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis the Second (right) leaves the Svyato-Danilovsky Monastery after the ceremony of handing over 250 Orthodox icons illegally smuggled out of Russia and returned by the US and Italian authorities.
Birds soaring above the Svyato-Danilovsky Monastery.
A girl feeds doves in the Svayto-Danilovsky Monastery backyard.
Doves soar above the Svyato-Danilovsky Monastery.