Smolny Cathedral - St.Petersburg


Russian ambulances
don't get sick!!


Hotel Astoria, St Pete's
They found printed invites for Hitler's 'Victory over Russia' party to be held here in 1944 in Berlin after the war


Fisherman on the River Neva
overlooking St Peter & Paul Fortress


The Winter Palace
from across the Neva


Church on the Spilled Blood
built 1907 on the place where Alexander II was assasinated


Us on the Cruiser Aurora
next to the canon that fired the shot that started the revolution in 1917


Moscow Square, St Petes
Lenin on the left, some big USSR government building on the right


Streetscape
just outside the hotel in St Pete's


Mariinsky Theatre
where we saw The Nutcracker ballet


Cossack Show


Bond boys
and one random local who said his name was Borat!!!


Bronze Horseman
Tribute to Peter the Great from Catherine the Great


Inside St Isaac's


On top of St Isaacs
up in the colonnades


St Isaacs


Catherine Palace


Catherine Palace
with our sexy museum shoes - to protect the parquetry


Catherine Palace
a picture of the hallway after the Nazis had been through


Catherine Palace
After the restoration


Huge archway leading into Palace Square


Palace Square
with the Alexander Column


Palace Square at night


inside the Hermitage


inside the Hermitage


inside the Hermitage


Inside Peter & Paul Fortress Church
Peter the Great's grave





Pskov Kremlin


Pskov Kremlin


Inside Pskov Kremlin Church
all the churches in Russia are decorated like this


Russian Banya
or sauna in the building on the left


Boof in the freezing lake
after being in the 85 degree celcius sauna!!


Horse and cart
at the banya


Pechory Monastery


Us girls in our hire-a-skirts


Pechory


Pechory


outside Isborsk Fortress


Isborsk
in the wall of the fortress


Bond boy
on the overnight train from Pskov to Moscow





The KGB Building in Moscow


Cop Car in Moscow


Boys photo
everytime the girls had a group photo, the boys just had to get one of themselves!!


GUM department store
in the Red Square


Changing of the Guard
outside the Kremlin, at the tomb of the unknown soldier


Inside the Kremlin
Communist concert hall on the left


Inside the Kremlin
Peter the Great's Moscow residence...


Inside the Kremlin
detail of the rooves in Cathedral square


Tsar cannon
made in 1586 and weighs 40 tons with a caliber of 890mm - it has never been fired!


Tsar bell
Weighs 200 tons-the largest bell in the world. The chunk alone weighs 12 tons!


Mock up of the Mir Space Station
an hour out of Moscow at Star City. This one was used to train cosmonauts


The funniest thing we have ever seen
Jay broke the Mir....trying to operate the weightless set of scales


Mir landing capsule


Mir Loo
with the hoover on the front for the boys...and it has a ladies attachment too!


World's biggest centrifuge
used to get cosmonauts, F1 drivers and fighter pilots used to G forces of up to 12.


Weightless training pool
12 metres deep with bits of the international space station in it.


Red Square
'Red' means beautiful in Russian, so it has nothing to do with communism or the colour of the buildings!


Red Square


Russian National History Museum


St Basils Cathedral
on the Red Square... like our hats??


St Basils Cathedral at night

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