Click to view larger image statue at sunset |
Click to view larger image dead soldiers |
Click to view larger image Hydrofoil on the way to Peterhof (Petrodvorets). |
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Click to view larger image Petrodvorets. |
Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
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Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
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Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
Click to view larger image Petrodvorets |
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Click to view larger image Two guys fishing in the Gulf of Finland. |
Click to view larger image Hydrofoil heading for Petrodvorets. |
Click to view larger image Fortress of Peter and Paul |
Click to view larger image "Kunts Kammer" - Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography |
Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography |
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Click to view larger image View of the Admiralty from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography |
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Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography |
Click to view larger image Neva River |
Click to view larger image Leningrad Railway Station in Moscow where we arrived on the overnight train from St. Petersburg. |
Click to view larger image Leningrad Railway Station in Moscow. We had to pay a 2,000 ruble bribe to stay on the train due to an insignificant printing error on our ticket. |
Click to view larger image Metro station near Arbat Street. |
Click to view larger image American Cafe - Uncle Sam on Arbat Street. Arbat Street is a narrow 19th-century pedestrian avenue in Moscow, Russia. It has long been a meeting place for artists and writers. |
Click to view larger image Don at the entrance to Red Square. |
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Click to view larger image Don on Red Square. Saint Basil's Cathedral, background, with its multicolored onion-shaped domes, boasts some of the most distinctive architecture in the world. Red Square measures 0.4 km (0.25 mi) in length. |
Click to view larger image The Lenin Mausoleum. The embalmed body of former Soviet leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin is displayed for public viewing in a mausoleum on Red Square. Although Lenin had wished to be buried alongside his mother in Petrograd, Stalin insisted that Lenin's body be preserved in a mausoleum for public display. |
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Click to view larger image Don in front of the Lenin Mausoleum. |
Click to view larger image The Lenin Mausoleum. |
Click to view larger image The Lenin Mausoleum. |
Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral, built between 1555 and 1560 in Moscow, Russia, represents an exaggerated development of Byzantine dome-style churches. |
Click to view larger image Don on Red Square. |
Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral. |
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Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral. The cathedral, now part of the State Historical Museum, towers over one side of Red Square and is a popular tourist spot. |
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Click to view larger image Don in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. |
Click to view larger image The Kremlin Wall. |
Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral. |
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Click to view larger image Kremlin clock tower. |
Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral. |
Click to view larger image The navigable Moscow River, also called the Moskva River, follows a winding course from northwest to southeast through the Russian capital city. The Kremlin, right, lies north of the river in the center of Moscow. . |