Odesa In Snow: A Photo Essay

A city of uncommon beauty facing war, bombardment, and atypical cold

Good Morning:

A memorial, originally to Catherine the Great, which the Soviets turned into a memorial to Karl Marx, pro-Russian post-Independence politicians turned back into a memorial of Catherine, and is now a makeshift memorial to fallen Ukrainian soldiers.

It doesn’t snow in Odesa often. The city is warmed by the Black Sea and is almost as close phy…