There is some backstory to these pictures. At least there was on Reddit when it was first posted, can't prove that it's true or not.
Anyway, his wife died and he is visiting all the places she/they went and making pictures to close himself of her.
I don't believe it, sorry. I work with a lot of Russians and all of their travel pics are like this.
http://lenta.ru/articles/2013/02/28/grumpy/ interview with the guy, if you can read Russian (he's from Belarus, by the way). Doesn't seem there is any real back story to it actually.
He's only 32 years old. He looks like he's pushing 40.