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[beltspinner.livejournal.com]

My friend has a picture of a cathedral with "храм покрава на рву", which I assumed is in Russian. The building kinda looks like this


I see that храм means "temple", but is the rest just the name of it? Or not in Russian at all?
Thanks

Death

[lovimoment.livejournal.com]

What are some Russian euphemisms for death? In English, if we want to be polite, we can say "pass on" or "pass away," or "gone to a better place."

We also have negative/joking ones, like "kick the bucket," "buy the farm," "pushing up daisies."

How, besides using умереть or погибнуть, can you say "die" in Russian?

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[zerkalny-mir.livejournal.com]

How would I say "I was caught in the rain" in Russian? As in, it was raining so hard I had to take cover in a bus shelter.