Belgrade

	Story shot in January 2010
	1. Building of the Ministry of Defense of Yugoslavia destroyed by the NATO's aviation in 1999. 2. Popular pedestrian area on Kneza Mihaila Street in Belgrade. 3. Cathedral of St Sava, the biggest orthodox church in the world. The cathedral has built on the place where relicts of St Sava, the most revered Serbian saint, were burned off by the Turks. Construction works started in the beginning of the 20th century, exterior decoration of the cathedral was completed during the Slobodan Milošević's era, but the work inside the cathedral is still in progress. 4. View to the Danube River from the Kalemegdan Fortress. 5. Game of chess on the Zeleni Venac Market in the centre of Belgrade. 6. Vegetable market in a Belgrade's suburb. 7. Statue of the Messenger of Victory in the Kalemegdan Fortress. Monument in honor of the liberation of the Serbian nation from the Ottoman yoke was erected in the very centre of the city at first. Shortly after it was removed to the bank of the Danube Rived because of numerous protests of local residents. They were disturbed by the uncovered nudity of the statue. Nowadays the bronze Messenger of Victory stays turned to the river and young Belgrade ladies are not confused any more by his anatomical details. 8. So called Eastern Gate of Belgrade was build during the communist era. 9. Founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church and first Serbian archbishop St Sava. 10. Epiphany morning service in the church of St Parascheva in a Belgrade's suburb. 11. 12. Orthodox Eucharist in the church of St Parascheva. 13. Friday service in the Bayrakli Mosque, the only one mosque in Belgrade. 14. When Kosovo was proclaimed as an independent state, furious crowd burned the Bayrakli mosque off. 15. Roman catholic service in the church of St Anthony of Padua in a Belgrade. The church was built by the project of eminent Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik. 16. Russian Trinity Church of the Moscow Patriarchy in the shadow of St Mark's Cathedral in Tašmajdan Park. 17. Tomb of Baron Wrangel in the Russian Trinity Church. Baron Peter Wrangel, the last commander of the White Army in the later stages of the Russian Civil War, died in exile in Brussels and was buried there at first. Few years later his remains were removed to Belgrade and buried in the Trinity church according the last will of Baron Wrangel who wished to lie 'in a Slavonic soil'. 18. Lopsided crosses on the graves of Russian emigrants at the Nove Groblje Cemetery in Belgrade. 19. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the House of Government of Serbia in the centre of Belgrade. Both buildings were built by the projects of well-known Russian architect Nikolay Krasnov. He was the author of the first general layout of Yalta, famous Crimean sea resort, and the architect of the Livadiya Palace in Crimea, where the Yalta Conference took place in 1945. Nikolay Krasnov escaped from Bolshevik's Russia with the White Army of Baron Wrangel and then made a brilliant career in Yugoslavia under the name Nikola Krasnov. 20. Library in the Royal Palace in Belgrade with portraits of Yugoslavian king Alexander the First and his wife. Residence of Yugoslavian kings was built by Nikola Krasnov by request of king Alexander the First. The ground floor of the Royal palace was decorated by the architect in style of the Terem Palace in the Moscow Kremlin. 21. Palace chapel of St Andrew the Apostle in the area of the Royal palace. Palace chapel was also built by the project of Nikola Krasnov and was decorated by frescos by a brigade of Russian painters of Nikolay Meiendorf. Traces of bullets are seen on the face of Jesus Christ because bodyguards of Yugoslavian communist leader Josip Broz Tito have trained here in shooting. 22. Building of the Ministry of Defense of Yugoslavia destroyed by the NATO's aviation in 1999. 23. Graffiti of funs of the football club Red Star Belgrade supported 19-years-old Uroš Mišić, the fun of the club who was sentenced for ten years imprisonment after he seriously injured a policeman during a football match. 24. Poster on the bus stop supported the Cyrillic alphabet.   At present time the Cyrillic alphabet is still in use in Serbia as well as the Roman one, but little by little the Roman letters wins over the traditional Cyrillic alphabet. Young Serbian people use the Roman alphabet almost without exception. 25. Study in the Department of Painting in the Belgrade University of Art. 26. Study in the Department of Painting in the Belgrade University of Art. 27. Training of the gymnastic club DIF of the Faculty of Sport of the Belgrade University. 28. Training of the gymnastic club Podednik. 29. Training of the swimming club Partizan Belgrade in the Tašmajdan swimming pool. 30. Training of a traditional Brazilian wrestling art of capoeira. 31. Pedestrian zone on Kneza Mihaila Street in Belgrade. 32. Ballet the Swan Lake on the stage of the National Theatre of Serbia. 33. 34. 35. 36. Popular Belgrade's night club Mr. Stefan Braun. 37. Another popular Belgrade's night club Teatro. 38. Night club Mr. Stefan Braun. 39. Biggest Belgrade's striptease club Moulin Rouge. 40. Monument to Prince Michael Obrenović III by Italian sculptor Enrico Pazzi on the Republic Square. This story isn't finished jet. New photographs will be added soon.
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