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August 7th: St. Petersburg

We sail into St. Petersburg, last stop of our Russian cruise.
Jump into a bus and head to the city centre to see the sights.
It is promised to be a more beautiful city than Moscow

Niko-Bogoyavlenskiy Morskoy Sobor Baroque cathedral

Stroganoff Palace


Yusapov Palace
Yusapov Palace has a basement museum with wax figures showing where Rasputin the healer spent much of his time and where he was eventually murdered

Savior on the Spilled Blood

Monument to Nicholas I

St. Isaac's Cathedral

Palace Square

Centre  of Palace Square

Palace from Palace Square 

state hermitage museum

Peter and Paul Fortress

Strelka Vasil'yevskogo Ostrova

Peter and Paul Fortress

Palace Square

Russian Museum


Tonight we are off to the Hermitage to see the Bolshoi ballet perform. So it is on with the good clothes and we are off.

Mariinsky Palace