Inside Catherine the Great's Palace. Yes, amazing and yes, absolutely packed! Summer is the high season and everyone comes to visit Russia during the warm months. During our 2nd day of touring with our guide, she told us that she couldn't remember 2 sunny days in a row in the past 15 years! On average, there are only 40 sunny days in St. Petersburg a year, let alone 2 days of 90 degrees! On the second day the air conditioning on the bus couldn't take it anymore and it quit running. Luckily, it was the end of the day and we were only 30 minutes from the ship!
The alter at the Church of Spilled Blood. It took 40 years to build. During World War II when the Germans bombed St. Petersburg, the church was almost completely demolished. It took another 40 years to re-build it!
This is a mosaic of Jesus as a 10 year old boy. It is one of only two representations of Jesus as a boy in the churches of Europe. It was at the top of a spiral tower, lots of zoom on this one!
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