RUSSIA
JULY 5-14, 2012

Arrival Thursday July 5

Moscow City Tour Starts at Kremlin on July 6

 

 

                                                                                                                                   

                                                                       Putin's Administrative Office


    

 

                                                                                                             Dianne with Barbara S. & John L. 

          

 

                                                                                                                                            

  

 

                                     Above Cathedral of Assumption

                              (burial of rulers prior to Peter the Great)


Entering Red Square

   

               WW II Hero / Standing on ruins of fascism          (Borrowed image/postcard of Red Square)

 


Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery
(considered Moscow's most prestigious burial site since 18th century: artists, writers, performers; politicians)

 

    

Overlook of Olympic Park / Sparrows Hill


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Moscow City Tour Continued Saturday July 7

 

Christ the Savior Cathedral (rededicated 2004)




                               Tretyakov Gallery (borrowed image)                                                     Peter the Great Statue in Moscow River     


     


   Retired Communist Statues in Park
     

Art Images from Moscow Metro

   

        


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Moscow Continued Sunday July 8


Kremlin Armory Museum (all images borrowed from web sources/ no photos allowed)

 

     

    
\Kremlin Armory Museum / State Diamond Fund

    

 

 

Moscow Circus (all images borrowed from web sources)






  

  

 

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Side Trip Monday July 9


Visit to Sergiev Posad

(Image below from John Landis)

With our guide (Tatiana) on train

  

                   Historical Russian Housing styles:                                                    18 Century Peasant Home

       Merchant upper class housing on top; business below                              




 

   

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Overnight Train from Moscow to St Petersburg (two images borrowed from web sources)

    



  

                 Departure Photo from Phillip Allen                                                  Breakfast Photo from John Landis

 

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Arrival St Petersburg Tuesday July 10

 

St Petersburg City Tour Starts at St Peter and St Paul Fortress

Cathedral  (burial of rulers since Peter the Great)


    

                           (Tomb of Peter the Great and family)                                                                  (Tomb of Nickolas II and family)

       

                                            
                  Russian Orthodox Choral Presentation                                                                Dianne "charmed" by Peter the Great

  

 

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St Petersburg City Tour Continues Wednesday July 11

   

                                                              (borrowed  images above and below)



Winter Palace with State Hermitage Museum

 

 


 

  

      
    

Ballet "Romeo and Juliet" at Marlinsky Theatre


   

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 Thursday July 12

Optional Tour to Petrodvorets (Summer Palace)

 

   

(below images borrowed from web sources)

     

 

Group Lunch after Summer Palace


  


 

 

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Friday July 13

Church of the Savior of the Spilled Blood

 


Recently Restored Confectionary (est 1902)

                             

      (above image borrowed)                                                                                   Sweet Treats with Jeff and Martine

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