Click to view larger image Departing the Tandoor Indian restaurant

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Click to view larger image Hydrofoil on the way to Peterhof (Petrodvorets).	Click to view larger image Petrodvorets is a resort city in the Leningrad Oblast of Russia, in the northwestern part of the country. Known as Peterhof before 1944, Petrodvorets is under the jurisdiction of the Saint Petersburg city soviet.	Click to view larger image Petrodvorets is situated on the southern coast of Kronstadt (Neva) Bay in the eastern Gulf of Finland, 23 km (14 mi) southwest of Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1709, Petrodvorets was developed by Peter the Great into a center of czarist palaces.	Click to view larger image Intended to rival Versailles, France, it contains the Grand Palace and the Monplaisir, Marly, and Hermitage palaces, which are surrounded by gardens, parks, and fountains. All were looted and heavily damaged by the German army during World War II (1939-1945) but have since been restored.
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Click to view larger image Petrodvorets	Click to view larger image Leaving Petrodvorets by hydrofoil	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	Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography	Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography	Click to view larger image View of the Admiralty from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography	Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography	Click to view larger image Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography	Click to view larger image Neva River	Click to view larger image Ira in front of The Winter Palace

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 Ira with Mickey Mouse on Arbat Street.	Click to view larger image Ira at the entrance to Red Square.	Click to view larger image Don at the entrance to Red Square.	Click to view larger image Ira on Red Square. Historically a venue for military and civilian parades, Red Square is bordered by several Russian monuments and attracts tourists to its downtown Moscow location.
Click to view larger image Ira on Red Square. A red stone wall on one side of the square surrounds the Kremlin, which served as the center of government for the entire Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) before the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.	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.	Click to view larger image Ira in front of the Lenin Mausoleum. Lenin's body was embalmed, and in August 1924 the V. I. Lenin Mausoleum opened in Moscow's Red Square (it was subsequently rebuilt in 1930). After Lenin's death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. It kept that name until 1991, when the Soviet Communist government collapsed and the city was renamed Saint Petersburg.
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 Ira on Red Square.	Click to view larger image Don on Red Square.	Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral.	Click to view larger image Ira on Red Square.
Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral.	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.	Click to view larger image Russian tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Terrible, commissioned the construction of Saint Basil's.	Click to view larger image Legend says that the tsar blinded the architects who designed the cathedral so that they could never duplicate the unique building.
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.	Click to view larger image Ira in front of Gosudarstvenny Universalny Magazin (GUM), the largest department store in Moscow, is popular with both tourists and locals. The name in English means "State Department Store." GUM was established in 1921 and sells a variety of goods, including food, clothing, and home appliances.
Click to view larger image Kremlin clock tower.	Click to view larger image Saint Basil's Cathedral.	Click to view larger image Ira (foreground), St. Basil's (background).	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. .