Lake Baikal: the world’s deepest lake.

The Russian State University for the Humanities: the site of Middlebury Moscow program.

The Russian State University for the Humanities: the site of Middlebury program in Moscow.

A hearty Siberian dinner in Irkutsk

Irkutsk, Siberia

Middlebury students strolling in Yaroslavl.

A Middlebury student in her Yaroslavl home.

Middlebury students at a street cafe in Yaroslavl.

Middlebury students by the ancient city walls in Yaroslavl.

Irkutsk, Siberia

A Moscow monument to Alexander Pushkin, the father of modern Russian and “the Sun” of Russian literature.

“The ideal and symbol of the Soviet epoch”: Worker and Collective Farm Woman by Vera Mukhina.  Created for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, the sculpture was subsequently moved to Moscow. With their work tools, the figures form the hammer and sickle symbol – an important part of Communist symbolism.

Moscow

Russian church architecture

Yeliseevsky grocery store, Moscow.

Russian church architecture

The Red Square, Moscow

Middlebury students in Yaroslavl

Middlebury program in Yaroslavl

Tea time: a favorite Russian tradition. Yaroslavl.

The wooden architecture of Kizhi