Watch Your Step

Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48 +0800

Practice Hoops, Hong Kong

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:47 +0800

Juxtaposition, Hong Kong

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:39 +0800

Hong Kong Composition

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:39 +0800

Night Sky, Hong Kong

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:18 +0800

Spring Blossoms, Beijing

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:33 +0800

On the March, Beijing

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:14 +0800

Hutong Tree, Beijing

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:11 +0800

Arrival of Spring, Beijing

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:12 +0800

Russian Embassy in Beijing

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:28 +0800

The Russian Embassy compound is located in the

northeastern corner of the old city in a site well-removed from other diplomatic

areas in Beijing. It sits just inside what used to be the city wall and is now the Second

Ring Road (which rather unintuitively is the first and innermost of the ring roads that

loop around the city). I looked for information about the facility and its history, but did not

find a great deal. Though I did learn a bit about getting visas to Russia. Russia and China

have a long and complex history of interaction. This location has apparently housed a

Russian mission of one kind or another since the 1600s. The spacious grounds covering

some 15 or 16 hectares originally belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church. The central

building (which originally served as what I do not know) was redesigned as the Soviet

Union's embassy in the mid-1950s and today continues to serve as the Russian Federation's embassy.

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