A once hubristic building, adorned with decorative balconies and windows that at one time held un-broken glass. Now the elements encroach through its gapping windows and doors, frost crawling along the walls like a cancer spreading through the bones of its victim. This building is derelict, abandoned and forgotten.


An abandoned building in Moscow. It's winter and snow lays on the ground.
An abandoned building in Moscow

Deep in the cold, menacing bowels of the dereliction live people. In this frightful place they try to survive.

A women climbs a wooden ladder to enter an abandoned building.
The cold, dark stair case inside an abandoned building in Moscow.
A portrait of a mother holding her baby. She is homeless and takes shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow.

Her baby is lifeless, her baby is a toy doll.

A portrait of a mother holding her baby. She is homeless and takes shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow. The baby is not real, it is a toy doll.
Ice forms on the window of an abandoned building in Moscow.

“We like to live like primeval hunters. We don’t want to be part of the social system. Every day could be our last day”

A portrait of a homeless man in an abandoned building in Moscow.
A portrait of a man and woman. They are homeless and take shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow. The woman holds a baby, it is not a real baby it is a toy doll.
Graffiti on the wall inside an abandoned building in Moscow, it reads "No one will keep us from death"
An abandoned building in Moscow

Further along the hallway past the detritus and through a door sparkling in ice and frost, another couple, Lyudmila and Dmitry.

A wooden door covered in ice and frost inside an abandoned building in Moscow.
A portrait of a man and woman. They are homeless and take shelter in an abandoned building in Moscow.

“I fell from a platform and broke my back. I had medical treatment and then my money ran out. I had no place to live”

The ruins and rubble inside an abandoned building in Moscow.
A portrait of a homeless man outside an abandoned building in Moscow.
A portrait of a homeless woman in an abandoned building in Moscow. She is lit by a single candle.
Graffiti on the wall inside an abandoned building in Moscow, it reads "Blood From the Eyes"
A man walks down a graffiti covered alleyway towards an abandoned building in Moscow.

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