Pictures from Moldova and Ukraine - My sister and her husband are Peace Corps volunteers in Moldova
Pictures from Moldova and Ukraine
o My sister and her husband are Peace Corps volunteers in Moldova, a small country nestled between Romania and Ukraine. In July of 1997 my parents took my wife and me to visit them in Moldova and then on a 12 day cruise on the Black Sea and up the Dneiper river to Kiev. Here are some pictures from that trip: Woman in cheese house. This is a scene from inside the cheese house in the market in Chisinau, Moldova. What a huge chunk of butter!
o Chisinau market. A view of the vegetable section of the market in Chisinau, Moldova. Notice the man with the cabbage leaf on his head.
o Trash can on fire. While waiting for a trolley-bus the trash can started on fire. It smelled terrible but it was fun to watch the paint on the sides bubble.
o Lunch in a village. We went to a village that my sister and her husband had stayed at during their training and we had a nice lunch underneath the grape leaves.
o Weird hatching baby. This strange sculpture was at the sea terminal in Odessa where we started our cruise.
o Potemkin Steps. Steps made famous in the movie The Battleship Potemkin.
o War Statue. This huge statue overlooks the harbor in Sevastopol.
o Lenin and bird. This statue of Lenin in Sevastopol seems to be training a seagull.
o Swallow's Nest. The castle is called the Swallow's Nest and is currently an Italian Restaurant. The old boat made a nice picture.
o Cossack. Traditional cossack dances in Zaporizhzhiya.
o Lenin. In Zaporizhzhiya the statue of Lenin in in the official 'hailing a taxi' pose.
o Bread and salt. Traditionally bread and salt are offered to visitors. Here we were received bread and salt at a collective farm near Kherson.
o Sunflowers. A field of sunflowers grown for oil on a collective farm near Kherson.
o Sunset on the river. A beautiful sunset on the Dneiper River as our boat cruisedinto the evening.
o Taras Shevchenko. The Ukrainian poet asked to be buried on a bluff overlooking the Dneiper river in his poem Covenant and so he was at Kaniv.
o Dneiper River. The Dneiper River as seen from Shevchenko's grave. Our boat can be seen also.
o Old cottage. The original museum to Shevchenko started in this beatiful little cottage.
o Musician. This man was playing folk songs outside the Shevchenko museum.
o Performers. This is my favorite picture. These people were performing for money aalong the path to Shevchenko's grave.
o Mysterious international symbols. This sign was one of the first things we saw in Kiev and we never figured out what it really meant (although we had many guesses).
o Bizarre menu. The boat we were on had pretty good food, but one day we had a strange combination of meals. This menu doesn't tell you that the pizza I got had fish on it!
o St. Sophia. This is a beautiful church in Kiev dating to the 11th or 12th century. Inside were wonderful mosaics.
o Bell tower of St. Sophia. The bell tower at St. Sophia. Most churches had free-standing bell towers.
o St. Andrew. The church of St. Andrew in Kiev. The apostle Andrew is supposed to have planted a cross here in the 1st century and predicted that a great city would grow here.
o Foreign Affairs Building. The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Building in typical Soviet style architecture. The hammer and sickle is still present because the Communists are still the majority.
o Independence Square in Kiev. The statue of Lenin was gone.
o Fresco. This fresco was outside the Cave Monestary in Kiev.
o Cave Monastery. There were many churches inside the Monastery. We only got to go into a little bit of the catacombs and saw only 2 or 3 mummified monks.
o View of Kiev. The churches are all in the cave monastery and contrast with the Soviet War statue of the woman with the sword.
o Traditional house. A traditional central Ukrainian house. We saw this at an open air museum near Kiev.
o Traditional barn. A traditional cental Ukrainian barn at the open air museum.
o Inside of house before wedding. The inside of the house was often painted before a wedding.
o Windmill. Old windmill at the open air museum.
o Old fortress. An old forest fortress from the north of Ukraine.
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