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
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
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.
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 |
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 |