Arbat District Aug 12
Fountains in Arbatskaya District. Statue outside Russian Historical Museum
Russian Museum, Bubble Entertainer outside Red Square Aug 12
Red Square at Night: GUM, St. Basil's, My unamed McD dinner - Aug 12
Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square; Christye Prudy area with Sonia - Aug 13
Expensive Take Out Coffee in Alexander Gardens, Wander Arbat with Daniel and Sonia - Aug 13
Mokhovaya ulista with Daniel and Sonia - Aug 13
See the Lubyanka (the FSB or old KGB) grand 4 story building; Wandering teatranylny place area with a contrast of wealth
See Cyril & Methodius monument; English Courtyard - Aug 13
St. Basils - Aug 13
Lunch at Bakery by Pushkinskaya Area, wander through the Garden Ring by foot with Sonia - Aug 13
In Zamoskvareche Area with Sonia - Aug 13
Sonia Sipping Elegant Coffee with Rich Foreigners in Marriot 5* Hotel
Wander Pyatinskaya ulista and the shops, narrow streers and cafes (and McD!)
Christ the Savior Cathedral
Christ the Saviour Cathedral - Aug 13
Urban Life and Strife - Aug 13
Russian Hotel
Gardens Cathedral - Aug 13
Dinner at Belarussian Restaurant - Sonia, Marjna, Me, John, Daniel - Aug 13
Dinner at Belarussian restaurant - Aug 13
Alexander Gardens at Night - Aug 13
View of GUM Department store in Masoleum Reflection - Aug 13
Arbat Road, Baskin Robbins, Beautiful (kitchy) building and apartment - Aug 14
Alexander Gardens Outside Kremlin - Aug 14
Inside the Kremlin, Armory (yellow pic), Palace of Congress (background image), Borovitskaya Tower - Aug 14
Grand Cathedral of Assumption
Inside the Kremlin - Kremlin Gardens, White Catherdral of Annuciation, Bekhlemisheskaya Tower - Aug 14
Inside the Kremlin - Grand Krelmin Palace - Aug 14
Inside the Kremlin - Cathedral of Assumption, Vodozvodnaya Tower - Aug 14
Inside the Kremlin - Outside the Cathedral of Assumption, 11 domes atop teh Terim Palace - Aug 14
Changing of the Guard Ouside the Kremlin Wall - Aug 14
St. Basils and the Red Square while waiting for the others - Aug 14
Boat Cruise - Stalin's 7 sisters, Gorky Park, Peter the Great, Sparrow Hill - Aug 14
At the Ballet with Sonia (eating Wine and Cavier) - Aug 14
Theatre Area at Night, a Delightful Borsch Soup Meal with Sonia - Aug 14
View from Imazaivolv Delta Gamma Hotel - Aug 15
Delta Gamma Hotel, Lunch Break - Aug 15
Pereslavl - Tour of Goritsky Monastery - Aug 15
View from top of Bell Tower of Monastery and Area - Aug 15
Pereslavl - Biking Tour - Aug 15
The Strong Aussie Team, the accomodations in Pereslavl- Aug 15
My flat tire - Aug 15
Our lunch in a local school after a shivering wet bike ride; a pit break; the River in Uglich - Aug 16
Uglich - at the hotel - Aug 15
Russian Meals - Breakfast and Dinner - Aug 15, 16
Uglich - Town Square - Aug 17
Price Dimitriv pictures from 1692 in Church of St. Dmityr on the Blood; in Prince's Chambers & Art Museum - Aug 17
Uglich - In Dmitry on the Blood Cathedral - Aug 17
Uglich - Prince Dimitry Church - Aug 17
Uglich - Aug 17
Uglich - Vodka Museum - Aug 17
Uglich Life - Aug 17
Olga our Uglich Guide, Vladmir helping out a local - Aug 17
Uglich - While Waiting for Next Tour - Aug 17
Uglich - Bell Ring Museum, family owned - Aug 17
Uglich - Bell Ring Museum - Aug 17
Uglich - Bell Ring Garden - Aug 17
Uglich - Dinner at State Owned Bar - Aug 17
Aug 18 - Cycling from Uglich to Myshkin
Aug 18 Cycle to Myshkin
Aug 18 - Cycle to Myshkin
Aug 18 - House in Martynovo. The oven doubled as a bed, stove, sauna, bath and play area
Aug 18 - Potato Lunch in Martynovo
Aug 18 - In Russian House in Martynovo
Aug 18 Views in Myshkin
Aug 18 In Myshkin Craft Museum then Ferry
Aug 18 - Dinner and Dessert in Hotel
Aug 18 - Hotel , a former Young Pioneer camp
Aug 19 - Old Church along route; graffiti even here
Aug 19 - In Space museum with actual vessels and seat
Aug 19 - Dinner at “Artists” restaurant with LONG 2 hour wait for food.
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl Walk along the water
Aug 19 - Yaroslavl by Volga River
Yaroslavl and 996 year count down to city's anniversary - Aug 20
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl and view from Monastery
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl Bell Tower
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl
Aug 20 - Bell Tower
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl Procession
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl Church Ceremeony outside Church of Transfiguration
Aug 20 - Church of Transfutration ceremony
Aug 20 - Inside Monastery of Assumption; see bee hives; WW2 statue
Aug 20 - Monastery
Yaroslavl - Church of Ephinany (the red brick look is painted)
Aug 20 - Olga our tour guide in Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl - Aug 20 Dried Fruit! Photo with Essan from Tajikstan in the Market
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl Market
Aug 20 - Yaroslavl Bell Ring Concert
Aug 21 - Cycle to Kostroma
Aug 20 - Bumpy road, cows!
Aug 20 - John
Aug 20 - Dennis & Diane on bumpy road
Aug 20 - sonia heading to Kostroma
Diane at Soviet Style Cafeteria - Aug 20
Aug 20 - Tired Pose after a long ride
Aug 20 - Marjna, Daniel, Igor
Aug 20 - Dinner at State Owned Hotel in Kostroma
Aug 21 - Kostroma 'Romanov' City Tour by Vladmir #2 - Yellow Fire Station, Ivan Susany statue 1767 Patriot of Russian Lands
Aug 22 - Lenin statue replaced a Czar statue; police building
Aug 22 - Along Volga River during Tour; old Priests house and garden on right
Aug 22 - Wooden Architecture Museum with Vladmir #2 Tour. These are Richer Peasand Homes with Double Rooms
Aug 20 - Wooden Architecture Museum Tour. Wooden Chapel.
Aug 20 - Wooden Architecture. Archery; Middle Class Peasant Home
Aug 20 - Riche Peasant Hoem in Background
In a Rich Peasants House
Architecture Museum Pond
Aug 22 Cycle to Plyos
Aug 22 - John, Me, Sonia at Plyos
Aug 22 - Champagne & Cavier for Sonia's Last Night
Aug 22 - Plyos Resort Town. Our wonderful resort room, view, and sunset
Aug 23 - Babushka Prevosia at Russian House Museum
Aug 23 - Ples Russian House
Aug 23 - Ples Russian House Museum from 300 BC
Aug 23 - Ples Ancient Russian Museum
Aug 23 - Cycling from Ples to Malinki in the RAIN. Check out the dirt on the hard core cyclists.
Aug 23 - Lunch in Fairy Tale Restaurant in small town included heavy potato stew
Aug 23 - Countryside by Malinki. Accomodations in Malinki, we were actually in the more prision-like building not shown
Aug 24 - Our hotel in Malinki on the side of the road - literally
Aug 24 - Ruscoe Lake
Aug 24 - Lunch at Ruscoe Lake. Vladmir doing push-ups
Aug 24 - Russian Vodka in the hotel at Suzdal. The end of the cycling tour portion.
Aug 24 - Suzdal
Aug 24 - Suzdal by Monastery
Aug 24 - Outside the Spass-Ephimy Monastery
Aug 24 - By the Monastery in Suzdal
Aug 24 - Suzdal outside the Monastery
Aug 25 - Suzdal. . White Pokrovsky Convent for famous russian wives who were infertile, it became a hotel in the 1970's and re-opened as a convent in 1996
Aug 25 - Market outside Monastery (of course). Diane and Marja browse
Aug 25 - Transfiguration Cathedral with 7 domes for 7 sacarements
Aug 25 - Transfiguration Cathedral and Garden in Suzdal
Aug 25 - Transfiguration Cathedral
Aug 25 - Inside Cathedral
Aug 25 - The Road to the Past - Propaganda Posters
Aug 25 - Communist Posters - For the Glory of Stalin and Glory of Russia.
Aug 25 - Monastery Prision for wayward religions thnkers who were senteced to life in solatariy confinement
Aug 25 - Babuska making a living after Perestroika
Aug 25 - Group in Vladmir outside Golden Gate (full of brides)
Me and My Trusty Road Bike in Vladimir
Aug 25 - Babushkas outside Catheral of the Assumption
Aug 25 - Vladimir
Daniel - always connected
Vladimir
Daniel
John
Diane
It's a bird, it's a plane!
Aug 25 - Brides on the hill, packing our bikes for the train, the military (that you're not supposed to photograph)
Aug 25 -
Aug 26 - St. Pete. Nouveau Rich meets Western Capitalist Fast food along Nevsky Pr.
Aug 26 - Alexander Column
Aug 26 - Palace Square
Aug 26 - The Hermitage
Aug 26 - Inner courtyard of Winter Palace
Horses in Palace Square
Aug 26 - Peter and Pauls Fortress Church
Aug 26 - Naval Building across bridge at University, pic of St. Isacc's Church in background
Aug 26 - Buildings in Univerisity Area. Mobile Toilet in background
Aug 26 - Walking by Neva River
Aug 26 - Bronze Horseman
Aug 26 - Weddings Galore and dozens of brides outside St. Isacc's Church
St. Isacc's
St, Issacs
Aug 26 - St. Isacs
Aug 26 - Spire of the Admiralty Building with the Ship on Top vs. St. Petersburg in less grandeur
Aug 26 - Spire of Admiralty & From Afar
Aug 26 - Along Moika Canal
“Ethnic Diversity”. A Black Man at the Chocolate Museum. Brunettes as Japanese selling sushi
Aug 26 - Dom Knigi (Singer Building) on right. Shops along Guiboyedova Canal
Church of Spilled Blood
Church of Spilled Blood built where XCzar Zlexander II was assaddianted in 1881
Church of Spilled Blood - done in the style of Moscow Churches
Kazansky Church - This non traditional Russian Orthodox church was both an operating church and Museum of Aetheism in the 1990s.
Mikhailovsky Castle and Gardens
View from Summer Gardens to to Fontanka Canal and buildings along the shore
Russian Museum. Fontanka Canal in background
Fontanka Canal
Mikhailovsky Castle
Summer Gardens Fence
Russian Museum
Etnography Museum; Pushkin Square
Ethnography Museum
Shermetev Palace
Aug 26 - Peter & Pauls Cathedral
Across the Neva
Views of St. Pete: Gostiny Dvor, Catherine the Great Statue, Pushkin Theatre, streetside life
Peter & Paul Cathedral
Aug 26 - Tour with Oleg - along the Neva by Peter & Paul's, the Military Museum
Tour with Oleg - Bldg ot Mgmt and Strategy where Galina teaches (background), Merinsky theatre (green), red university bldg Oleg went to
Alexander Nevsky Cemetary
Tour with Oleg - Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Toru with Oleg - Smolny Cathedral & Convent
Aug 26 - Beginning of the night with Carolyn, Sally, Mike at Jazz Bar; As night went on at Cougar Bar
Aug 26 - Walking Back to Hostel As Night Progressed: Caroly, Sally, Mike (all UK), Bruno (Brazil)
Along Kutuzova nab. by Neva River at 2am
Aug 26 - Seeing the Troitsky most bridge rise
Boats along Fontaki Canal at 2 am
Church of Spilled Blood From afar
Shooting a Movie by Summer Gardens (left), the street of our hostel (right); these are the actual colours emitted from the street lights
Aug 27 - Neva Canal Early Morning
Aug 28 - Marsovo Pole and the Eternal Flame; Church of Spilled Blood from afar
Canals
A gang of cats outside the Hermitage
Hermigage
Hermitage
Aug 28 - Palace Square in Morning
Palace Square in Morn
Palace Square
Gostiny Dvor
Quiet Boshaya Neva
Apraskin Dvor Market
Apraskin Dvor Market; Church - Aug 28
Aug 28 - By Gostiny Dvor at Night
