Boarding our ship in St. Petersburg
Peter and Paul Fortress with Cathedral, St. Petersburg
Interior of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, St. Petersburg
Interior of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Na zdarovye, Leo! Astoria Hotel
Stall in souvenir market, St. Petersburg
Church on Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg
Church on Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg
Even in Russian we understood this sign!
At a performance of "Swan Lake".
Catherine the Great's Winter Palace, Pushkin
Garden in the Winter Palace
Detail of the exterior of the Winter Palace
Mural in the Winter Palace
Burned by German troops in WWII, Winter Palace Restoration continues today
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Museum
"A Young Man Playing a Lute" by Caravaggio, Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Museum
Cossack dancers and singers
Peterhof Palace, near St. Petersburg
Peterhof Palace interior
Peterhof Palace
Peterhof Palace
Fountain and garden at Peterhof Palace
Canal tour, St. Petersburg
Church of the Transfiguration, 22-dome wooden church, Kizhi Island
Kizhi Island, 22-dome Church of the Transfiguration
Traditional shrine in a farmhouse in Kizhi
Forest products are a major Russian industry.
Sunset along the Volga-Baltic Waterway
Remains of village church near Rybinsk
Church of Elijah the Prophet, Yaroslavl
Interior, Church of Elijah the Prophet
Vegetable market, Yaroslavl
Church of St. Dimitry on the Blood, Uglich
Part-time residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Monastery of St. Sergius, Sergiev Posad
Cathedral of the Assumption, 1559, in the Monastery of St. Sergius
Within the grounds of the Monastery of St. Sergius
Iconostasis in the Cathedral of the Assumption
Trinity Cathedral, 1422-3, Monastery of St. Sergius
Note the cell phone!!
Arbat, a pedestrian street in Moscow
Moscow street scene
Note the Hard Rock Cafe!
"Did you find a WiFi network?"
Advertising has replaced the Communist slogans - Moscow
Moskva Russian Folk Orchestra
A new balalaika player in the orchestra!
Typical Moscow traffic
Market near the passenger ship terminal, Moscow
"How do you spell Heinz Ketchup in Russian?"
Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, blown up by the communists in 1931, rebuilt in 1994-7, Moscow
Oligarchs’ cars?
Trackless trollies were a common sight in Moscow
Apple Store in Gum Department Store, Moscow
8-8-08 was a lucky day for weddings
History Museum, Red Square
St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow
St. Basil's at night
Kremlin wall and tower, Moscow
Along the Kremlin wall, Moscow
Cathedral of the Assumption within the Kremlin Walls
Within the Kremlin walls, Moscow
Ivan the Great Bell Tower within the Kremlin walls.
Russian River Cruise
The Waterways of the Czars - St. Petersburg to Moscow along the Volga-Baltic Waterway, July - August 2008
We arrived in St. Petersburg and boarded the Viking Lomonosov, our floating hotel for the next two weeks. We toured St. Petersburg and its magnificent palaces and museums for three days and then traveled 700 miles on canals, rivers and lakes. After a week of leisurely travel, we arrived in Moscow where we were treated to several more days of sightseeing.