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Yesterday, after visiting Yegoryevsk, we were returning home by way of the road to Likino-Dulyovo.  The rest of the day was open, and I decided to take a look at a monastery that was located near our route. . The entrance to the monastery is situated several meters from the road, and has a small parking area in front of it. This is the entrance to the monastery.  The town of Kurovskye is not a popular tourist spot, like the entire eastern part of the Moscow region, so Transfiguration Monastery of Guslitsy doesn't attract many visitors.  In fact, I think that--other than the woman in the photo above--I may have been the only out-of-towner there at the time. Transfiguration Monastery was founded through an initiative of Emperor Alexander II in 1858.  The main purposes of the new monastery were missionary work and the education of children.  The area where the monastery is situated was called Guslitsy in that time, and it was inhabited almost entire...

Last Saturday, I was in the Kaluga region.  The first town on my way was Zhukov.  It’s a little town that’s known mainly for being the birthplace of General Georgy Zhukov.  He was born into a  poor peasant family in Strelkovka, Maloyaroslavsky Uyezd, Kaluga Governorate, which later merged into the town of Zhukov in Zhukovsky District of Kaluga Oblast. The town looks like a village, as it’s composed mostly of small wooden houses.  In the center of the town, you will find the Museum of Zhukov, facing the square.  The building that houses the museum looks massive, but once inside you see that the museum itself is not very large in comparison.  The entrance fee is 130 rubles, plus another 50 rubles for the right to take photos. This large oil painting was created in 1976.  It depicts the battle of Berlin in 1945.      It was exhibited in the Berlin suburb of Wünsdorf, and in 1993, when Soviet forces were withdrawn from Germany, it...