This May, the 100th annual Cross Procession was held in Fort Ross, California, in honor of the founding of one of the first Orthodox churches in the New World and Memorial Day in the United States.

The main facade of the Boronins peasants' cottage in the village of Myachkovo, Russia.

Fortunately, we have to settle for an old photo not because it has disappeared - the house is still inhabited and well-kept, but hidden by trees and a fence from curious cameras.

Section of an original Byzantine wall with a plaque "Martyrium of Saint Kirikus" in the Migdal Afek castle in Israel, which was rebuilt out of the Byzantine fortified monastery.

View of the Orthodox Holy Cross school in the old town of Gjirokastër (Greek: Argyrokastron), Albania.

Franco-Byzantine church of Saint George in Achna, Cyprus.

Soon to-be restored, the early-renaissance Orthodox church of Saint Julian in Šibenik, Croatia.

The project of Tatishev's manor reconstruction on Boldino, Russia.

An interesting neo-Greek mansion in Ampelakia, utilizing in its construction certain traditional techniques which make it almost Byzantine-looking.

Steep towers of the Saint Joseph of Volotsk Monastery, Russia.

Door of an old baths of oriental style near the Atskuri fortress, Georgia.

The estate from the Gothic novel in Neo-Russian manner - the Gerard estate in Demyanki, now, alas, abandoned due to its location in the resettlement zone of the Gomel region, created in connection with the Chernobyl accident.

Ancient carving of the iconostasis of one of the churches of the monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Egypt.

Macarius was a disciple of Saint Anthony the Great, the founder of monasticism itself.