Nov 2010
St Basils Cathedral…
Inside
More of the many photos of St Basils…
Inside St Basils…
The Kremlin walls…
These sculpture trees are full of
padlocks that are placed
there by newly married couples…
Peter the Great…
Christ the Saviour Cathedral…
The compulsory stylish slippers to
protect the floor…
Beef stroganoff of course!
The Bolshoi Theatre…
On our way into the Kremlin…
The beautiful churches within the
Kremlin. Unfortunately no photos allowed inside…
The biggest bell in the world weighing in
at over 200tonnes (minus the 12tonne chunk that broke off)…
The ornate
Beautifully detailed, even at platform
level…
A normal metro ticket hall and entry…
Extremely deep metro requiring the longest
escalators…
Rub the lucky dog…
… and the rooster…
Another grand ticket hall…
Back to the onion dome churches…
The Space Obelisk representing the smoke
plume of a launched rocket…
It was quite common to see artwork
hanging on outside walls…
Making our own art…
Overnight train – the Red Arrow – from
Arriving in
The cathedral in the Peter and Paul
Fortress…
The space museum with the REAL Sputnik…
The
Even the wooden floors are beautifully
decorated…
The Peacock Clock. At chime time, the peacock lifts his
feathers, the rooster crows,
the mushroom spins and the owl’s head
spins. All mechanically operated… cool…
A Michelangelo sculpture…
The Hermitage Cat…
Outside the Hermitage…
The Church on the Spilled Blood…
Inside Church on the Spilled Blood. The entire interior is mosaic, all 70 million
tiles.
One of the most impressive churches
we’ve ever seen…
The canals of
The old Singer factory…
The train to
