I love taking pictures of animals when I travel. They never object to being photographed, or need to fix their hair first. This one was at a small market in Peroslavl-Zalessky, a pretty town on the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo north of Moscow.
The town is well worth a visit, with many beautiful monasteries nearby and some museums in town. It dates from 1152 and was the birthplace of Alexander Nevsky, a medieval Russian prince who defeated invading armies from Sweden and Germany. Nevsky was declared a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Peroslavl-Zalessky is one of the towns of the Golden Ring of old Russian cities near Moscow and is close to the better known Sergiev Posad (called Zagorsk in Soviet times,) a beautiful pilgrimage site for Orthodox Russians.
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