Cruising Up the Volga River
After four days seeing the sights of Moscow (in the cold drizzle), the Viking Ingvar cast off. We were to spend the next four days cruising up the Volga River…
Moscow – Hmn, It’s Cold Here!
We arrived in Moscow Tuesday October 10, 2017. It was about 46° F and cloudy – not too bad. Viking is exceptionally organized – they get us and our luggage…
Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in the Red Square (Kremlin) in Moscow. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat or Pokrovsky Cathedral. It was built from 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan.
You’re going where? Off to Russia!
When I was a kid, I read Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago” and as a young teen “Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty” by…