 The Viking Ingvar May 2013 |
 Moscow, Northern Port Building |
 The southern end of the Volga - Moscow Canal |
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 The Viking Ingvar our home for the next eleven days |
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 The Stern |
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 Rafted up with other Viking boats |
 The Canal |
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 The service boat |
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 Lifeboat Drill with Melanie and Ken |
 Waiting to be rescued |
 The service boat |
 The ship museum opposite |
 Shortly before departure, with the Ingvar on the outside |
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 Moscow May 2013 |
 Organising the bus excursion |
 Views from Sparrow hill the Presnensky Financial District |
 Wedding cake architechture |
 Double decker bridge over the Moskva river |
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 churches |
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 Moscow State University |
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 Bolshoi Theatre |
 Sheltering from the rain in Bolotnaya Garden |
 Distant statue of Peter the Great |
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 Evening Concert of Folk Music |
 Red Square, Moscow May 2013 |
 Marshall Zhukov |
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 The Resurrection Gate |
 Saviour's Gate |
 Kazan Cathedral |
 Saviour's Gate |
 The Gum Store |
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 Nicholas Tower |
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 Th Lenin Mausoleum |
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 Stalin |
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 Nicholas Tower |
 National Historical Museum |
 St Basil's |
 The Kremlin South Wall |
 St Basil's Cathedral May 2013 |
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 Minin and Pozharsky Statue |
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 From a window ... Wedding Cake architecture |
 ... Red Square; Saviour's Gate ... |
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 Singing group |
 lilac time |
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 The Kremlin May 2013 |
 peek over the wall |
 Trinity Tower |
 The gate in Trinity Tower |
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 Ivan the Great Bell Tower |
 The Arsenal |
 Lilac Time |
 State Kremlin Palace |
 Cathedral of the Assumption |
 Tsar Canon |
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 Cathedral of the Assumption (Dormition) |
 Tsar Bell ... |
 ... vandallised |
 Cathedral of the Annunciation |
 Church of the Nativity |
 Cathedral of the Assumption (Dormition) |
 Annunciation Cathedral |
 Ivan the Great Belltower |
 The Assumption Belfry |
 Cathedral of the Archangel Gabriel |
 Church of the Nativity |
 in the Arbatskaya May 2013 |
 Arbatskaya Ulitsa, on an overcast morning |
 Alexander Pushkin and Natalya Goncharova |
 The Ministry for Foreign Affairs |
 Bulat Okudskava |
 Church of the Saviour on the Sands in Spasopeskovsky Pereulot |
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 The white bell tower |
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 Monument to Pushkin |
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 The oldest house? |
 The Moscow Metro May 2013 |
 Descending with our group at the Culture Park |
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 Ploschad Revolyutsii |
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 On our own now! |
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 Arbatskaya Metro Station |
 Uglich May 2013 |
 Wednesday afternoon the Moscow - Volga Canal |
 Lock buildings |
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 Thursday on the Volga Church from a submerged village |
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 lock before Uglich |
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 Arrival in Uglich: Cathedral of the Corsun Icon of the Mother of God |
 Church of St Demetrius on the spilled blood |
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 1930s tractor; part of the revolution |
 Transfiguration Cathedral |
 Kovcheg singers |
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 Church of St Demetrius on the spilled blood |
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 The Bell, banished by Boris Godunov |
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 Painted boxes |
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 Monastery of the Resurrection |
 Singers for the tourists |
 Home visit with family and our guide |
 Departure on the Volga |
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 Yaroslavl May 2013 |
 Anchored on Friday Morning view across the Volga |
 Annunciation Cathedral |
 War memorial park |
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 Cathedral of the Annunciation |
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 Tiles in the wall |
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 The Trinity |
 Confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl 1003rd Anniversary |
 Distant view of St Gohn Chrysotom |
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 Cathedral of the Annunciation |
 The Iconstasis |
 The Bishop's Pew |
 The inner sanctum |
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 The town market |
 Fruit stall |
 Chapelin the market square |
 Bettiann and Dan |
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 In the Govenor's House |
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 Peter the Great |
 Entertainment ... |
 ... with a dancing |
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 Church of Elijah to Prophet |
 Tiles |
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 The Iconostasis |
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 From the Bishop's pew |
 Elijah |
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 Entertainment |
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 Kuzino Saturday |
 On the Volga - Baltic Waterway |
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 Arrival in Kuzino |
 Models of Viking boats |
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 The Viking "Experience" |
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 The Kirillov-Belozersky Monastery |
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 into the Monastery |
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 in former times |
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 The Kirillov School |
 Heroic former pupils |
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 IT Room |
 Arts and performance classes; making lace |
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 Lake Onega & Kizhi May 2013 |
 Sunday |
 Ruined church from a submerged village |
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 a lock wall |
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 Winter's timber ready for shipping |
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 Leaving Lock 1 |
 The mate |
 The control panel |
 Lake Onega |
 Explanation of how the bow thruster interacts with the rudders |
 Kizhi May 2013 |
 Arrival with ... |
 ...the wooden church in the distance |
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 Church of the Transfiguration The Summer Church |
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 The watch tower |
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 The Church of the Intercession The Winter Church |
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 The Iconostatis |
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 Hydrofoil on the lake |
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 The Oshevneva House |
 Model wooden tiles |
 A pinted wooden tile |
 The Windmill |
 Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus |
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 The graveyard |
 Wagtail |
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 Mandrogy May 2013 |
 The River Svir between Lakes Onega and Ladoga |
 Madrogy Artisan Village Monday |
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 painting rings and dolls |
 "A Taste of the USSR" lunch with Harry and Penny, and with Jane and John |
 lunch time entertainment |
 The lower Svir lock |
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 The Svir |
 St Petersburg: the Hermitage May 2013 |
 Tuesday By coach along the Neva |
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 a prison |
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 St Peter & St Paul Cathedral |
 The Hermitage |
 The Queue! |
 Our guide in action |
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 The Entrance Hall |
 The staircase with crowd |
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 General Kutuzov |
 A malachite urn |
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 A peacock clock |
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 Table ... |
 ... with an image of St Peter's |
 Rembrant |
 Rembrant |
 Rembrant - Decent from the Cross |
 Rembrant |
 della Robbia |
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 Raphael: The Holy Family |
 Michaelangelo |
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 Caravaggio |
 Canaletto |
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 Velasquez; Phillip IV |
 Murillo |
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 van Dyck |
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 Sisley |
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 from the window |
 Matisse |
 Matisse |
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 Matisse |
 Picasso |
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 Evening on deck |
 Tsarskoe Selo Catherine Palace May 2013 |
 Pushkin Memorial |
 Wednesday Catherine Palace and Garden |
 The Gate with a reception group |
 The Palace |
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 ceiling motif |
 The Great Hall |
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 Stove |
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 Dining |
 Staircase |
 The front corridor |
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 Catherine |
 The Amber Room |
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 Out into Catherine Park |
 The Garden front |
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 The Chapel domes |
 Hall on the Island |
 The Cameron Gallery |
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 The Turkish Bath |
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 The Grotto |
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 Tufted Ducks |
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 Admiralty |
 Turkish Bath with the Chesma Column |
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 Saint Peter and Saint Paul Fortress May 2013 |
 Smolny Convent |
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 Felix Djinsky Founder of the KGB |
 St Isaac's Cathedral |
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 The Admiralty Tower |
 Nicholas I in St Isaac's Square |
 St Nicholas Cathedral |
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 The Fortress of St Peter & Saint Paul |
 Crossing the Neva |
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 The arrival of ... |
 ... the Patriach of Jerusalem |
 The Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul |
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 Departure of the Patriach |
 The Mint |
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 The pulpit |
 The Altar |
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 Peter the Great |
 Tombs of the Tsars |
 The last Tsar and family iinterred in 1998 |
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 later Tsars |
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 The Military Museum |
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 The Cruiser, Aurora |
 Boat tripin St Petersburgh May 2013 |
 Show by Kossak dancers |
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 Soviet Poster |
 The new stayed-girder bridge near our mooring |
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 Harry and Penny |
 Jane and John |
 The Mosque |
 under Trinity bridge |
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 Palace museum |
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 dredging near the ... |
 Anichkov Bridge |
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 Lomonosov Bridge |
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 St Nicholas Cathedral |
 Marinsky Theatre (right) and the New Stage (left0 |
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 St Isaac's Cathedral |
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 An un-renovated building |
 Nocholas 1st |
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 Art Deco Department Store |
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 Out on the Neva the Hermitage |
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 The Fortress of St Peter & Saint Paul |
 Marble Palace |
 Melanie and Ken |
 Bettiann and Dan |
 Walk in St Petersburg May 2013 |
 At our mooring |
 Common Tern |
 Viking Ingvar on the last morning |
 Our cabin was the last on the top deck |
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 Nevsky Prospect |
 Renovated shopping store |
 The Armenian Church |
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 Pushkin |
 Hooded Crows |
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 The Russian Museum |
 The Church on Spilled Blood |
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 The Bishop's seat |
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 The Iconstasis |
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 The place of assasination |
 Gribidova Canal |
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 Art Deco on the corner of Nevsky Prospect |
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 The Kazan Cathedral |
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 Amsterdam Airport ... |
 ... on the way home |
 Friends |
 Jane and John |
 Harry and Penny |
 Bettiann and Dan |
 Ken and Melanie |
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