RUSSIA
St. Petersburg, a magnificent imperial capital, is a city of 101 islands. It is bright, sunny, and surrounded by water on the Gulf of Finland. It is home of the Hermitage, the Summer Palace of Peter the Great, St. Issac’s cathedral, and the Church of Resurrection Of Jesus Christ. Along the river were the villages of Yaroslavl, Kizhi, Goritsy, Mandrogui, and Uglich finally arriving in Moscow from the Neva to the Volga.
In Moscow’s core is the Kremlin, home to the president and tsarist treasures in the Armoury. Outside its walls is Red Square, the home to Lenin’s Mausoleum and St. Basil’s Cathedral, with its colorful, onion-shaped domes.
