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(Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Red Square at dusk, the Kremlin, seat of the government, left, and St. B... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Cathedral Mosque, Moscow’s main mosque. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saints and “volunteers” visit outside of St. Petersburg chapel... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saint chapel in the St. Petersburg stake center. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The Annunciation Cathedral in front of the Russian Presidential Palace i... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Sergei Antamanov, LDS Church spokesman, in the central Moscow meetingho... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Statue of Flora in the Summer Palace Garden in St. Petersburg. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saints enter the St. Petersburg stake center. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Moscow International Business Center along the Moskva River. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Panorama of Cathedral Square inside the Kremlin in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Two Latter-day Saint “volunteers” walk in central Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Roman Lunkin, director of the Institute for Religion and Law in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-Saint Kristina Nikogosyan stands at gate of the central Moscow m... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Sergei Antamanov, LDS Church spokesman, in the central Moscow meetinghou... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Dmitry Serov, front, performs vespers with Archpriest Michael Nem... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Recently erected statue of Prince Vladimir, who brought the Orthodox fa... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Dmitry Serov, deputy director of the international department at... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Boris Leostrin, president of the St. Petersburg LDS Stake. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The Presidential Palace and the Annunciation Cathedral stand side by sid... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Church of the Nativity in the Kremlin in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Dmitry Serov, deputy director of the international department at... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Dmitry Serov, front, performs vespers with Archpriest Michael Nem... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Boris Leostrin, president of the St. Petersburg LDS Stake. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Deacon Anatoliy in Moscow's Central Baptist Church. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Inside Moscow's Cathedral Mosque. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Tourists pose for “selfies” in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saint stake center in St. Petersburg. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Moscow's Cathedral Mosque. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Statue of Karl Marx near Red Square in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Moscow's Cathedral Mosque. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Alexey Samaykin in the Latter-day Saint central Moscow meetinghouse. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Alexey Samaykin in the Latter-day Saint central Moscow meetinghouse. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Exterior of the Central Baptist Church in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-Saint Kristina Nikogosyan stands at gate of the central Moscow m... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The Latter-day Saint central Moscow meetinghouse. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The Latter-day Saint central Moscow meetinghouse. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Statue of Camilla in the Summer Palace Garden in St. Petersburg. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Interior dome in St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Inside Moscow's Cathedral Mosque. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Dmitry Serov, front, performs vespers with Archpriest Michael Nem... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) A composite painting that hangs in the St. Petersburg LDS stake center d... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Russian guards march near the wall of the Kremlin and the Tomb of the Un... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Inside Moscow's Cathedral Mosque. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Book fair on Red Square in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Mikhail Kotov, center, stands at the LDS Russian dedication site in the ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The Central Baptist Church, where Ezra Taft Benson preached in 1959, in ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Mikhail Kotov, center, stands at the LDS Russian dedication site in the ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Spasskaya Tower and east entrance to the Kremlin in Moscow. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The Central Baptist Church, where Ezra Taft Benson preached in 1959, in ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Angel on top of Peter and Paul Cathedral reminds some Russian Latter-day ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) The main entrance of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Statue of Soviet citizens uniting to hold off the Nazis at the Monument ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Inside St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg with Icons of saints and ... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) LDS Church “volunteer” Max Wood from Delta, Utah, helps guests at the fa... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood's northern icon case, depicting P... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Peter and Paul Fortress on the Neva River, St. Petersburg. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Russian religious scholar Alexandra Pospelova. (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) LDS Church “volunteer” Max Wood from Delta, Utah, helps guests at the fam... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Icon painting of the recently sainted Romanov family in the Church of Ou... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Mosaic depicts the life of Christ in the Church of the Saviour on Spille... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Mosiac depicting the life of Christ in St. Petersburg's Church of the Sa... (Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Parishioners attend vespers in Russian Orthodox Church of the Beheading ...