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Our holiday in Moscow and St.Petersburg, Russia.

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Me and my wife have have visited our friends in Russia in August 2003. We stay by our friends in Moscow and have also visited St.Petersburg and some other places. We will show the visitors of my website a few pictures that we have made.

Our friends Vadim, his wife Natasha and kids

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Our friends lives in Moscow-South direct on the border of the city.
The apartments around his home are build about 27 years ago.....But, there are also a lot of new- and renovated appartments.

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Centre of Moscow around the Red Square

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Kremlin

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The souvenir market

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A very well-known and pleasant market.


Modelling Market

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The modelling market in Moscow is open on every Monday, relative cheap prices for kits and documentation
(open only in modelling seasons)


Church "Jesus-Christ the Saver"

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In communist time Stalin will stop the Christian religie and let blow up the Church. His intention was to build on the same place a 200m high sculpture from Lenin as monument. But, there was a lot of critic and the plan to the sculpture were stopped and changed to a big swimming pool.
After communist time, in 1995, the citizen of Moscow broken off the swimming pool and started with rebuilding of the church. They finished the church four years later with help from old drawings and pictures.


Trip to St.Petersburg

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The Winter Palace from Peter the Great - "Hermitage Museum"

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The Cathedral of St.Peter and Paul

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The Church of the Resurrection of Christ

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The Great Palace "Peterhof"

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Cruiser "Aurora"

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The cruiser "Aurora" has played a big roule in the "Oktober Revolution" in 1917


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