Golden autumn in Russia

Indian Summer, which Russians call Old Ladies' Summer, is a very beautiful but very short season in Russia.

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Indian Summer, which Russians call Old Ladies' Summer, is a very beautiful but very short season in Russia.
Photo: A bench in Alexander Pushkin's Petrovskoye estate, the Pskov Region.

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Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin loved autumn in Russia. Here's an exсerpt from his poem:
"A melancholy time! So charming to the eye! Your beauty in its parting pleases me - I love the lavish withering of nature,
The gold and scarlet raiment of the woods..."
Photo: Pushkin's Trigorskoye estate in the Pskov Region.

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An autumn day in Moscow.

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A landscape near the village of Safontyevo, the Moscow Region.

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Ducks and pigeons in a park in Yekaterinburg.

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Autumn at the Neskuchny Sad park in Moscow.

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The Catherine Park of the Tsarskoye Selo, the Leningrad Region.

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Slovenskiye mineral springs in Izborsk, the Pskov Region.

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A duck in a pond at the Kirov Central Park, St. Petersburg.

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Autumn landscape.

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Autumn in the Vladimir Region.

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Making and wearing crowns of maples leaves is a popular autumn pastime.