My cruises around Baltic Sea:
St Petersburg in Russia

St. Petersburg information:

Info:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Saint Petersburg (Saint Petersburg, Wikipedia)

St. Petersburg:

One of our cruises have been to St. Petersburg. On this cruise we also visited Tallinn.

We had prebooked a guided tour in St. Petersburg.

The bus take us along the river Neva to the palace we shall visit as a first stop.

More to read about the big river Neva at Wikipedia:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Neva River (Neva River, Wikipedia)

Here we enter the Winter Palace, very famous for all its arts.

It's an impressive big building. The guided tour took five hours ! We are maybe not very interested in old oil paintings, but this was very exiting. Just to come so close to the paintings so you can see every detail of them. It was a big surprise that the paintings wasn't behind glass windows as protection. I'm sure just only of these paintings are worth millions of dollars.

However, steady Russian women watched the art so they were in safe hands.

More to read about the Winter Palace at Wikipedia:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Winter Palace (Winter Palace, Wikipedia)

The weather was very bad today, that was sad for there were so much to see in this town.

We took a walk with the guided group to a restaurant for lunch. The square is the Palace square.

More to read about the Palace Square at Wikipedia:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Palace Square (Palace Square, Wikipedia)

Typical Russian churches with its towers.

For a while the rain almost stop and we can take our cameras out and take some photographs.

This is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

More to read about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Wikipedia:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Wikipedia)

We crossing the bridge over the river Neva.

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