This is the Cathedral of the Virgin of Smolensk. Unfortunately, on the day Tanya and I visited it, it was closed. Women tend to cover their heads, even just with a scarf, in church precincts and almost always do inside a church, while men are bare-headed indoors. (Russia winters preclude customs like going bareheaded out of doors.)Sunday 20 May 2007
Novodevichi Monastery
This is the Cathedral of the Virgin of Smolensk. Unfortunately, on the day Tanya and I visited it, it was closed. Women tend to cover their heads, even just with a scarf, in church precincts and almost always do inside a church, while men are bare-headed indoors. (Russia winters preclude customs like going bareheaded out of doors.)
