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St Petersburg 25 - 30 May 2006

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Emily outside Sint Isaac's Cathedral

Emily outside Sint Isaac's Cathedral

The park outside Sint Isaac's Cathedral

The park outside Sint Isaac's cathedral

The Bronze Horseman

The inner courtyard of our appartment

Charlotte and some young soldiers from one of the Military Academies

Dvortsovaya Place

Dvortsovaya Place with Peter and Catherine

Dvortsovaya Place: Emily with Peter

The Winter Palace

Dvortsovaya Place

The Neva River with the austere ex-KGB offices in the background

Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul: the Romanovs burial vaults

Church of the Saviour on the Blood

Church of the Saviour on the Blood

Church of the Saviour on the Blood: bullet holes left as a reminder of The Blockade 1941-44

Church of the Saviour on the Blood looking from the Mikhailovsky Gardens

The Russian Musem, Mikhailovsky Gardens

Emily and Charlotte playing with their Matrushka dolls

Panoramic of Catherine's Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Chapel at Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Catherine's Palace

Typical datsja

A fine figure of a figged man at Peterhof

The fountains at Peterhof

The fountains at Peterhof

The fountains at Peterhof

The fountains at Peterhof

The Gulf of Finland at Peterhof

The Gulf of Finland at Peterhof

Peterhof

Divo Island: Bompa and Emily

Smolny Cathedral

Smolny Cathedral (10:30pm and still light!)

Guns galore!

St Nicholas Cathedral

The staircase at Yusupov Place

Private theatre: Yusupov Place

Yusupov Place

Boat trip: Moika Canal

Boat trip: Emily and Kristof with The Hermitage in the background

Boat trip: The Hermitage in the background

Kazan Cathedral

Nevsky Prospekt