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04 Feb 2017

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A Russian cruise
June 2002

Some of the places...

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Everything started from Saint Petersburg. We boarded a big "River-liner" similar to this one. The cruise took us through Karelia to the Lakes Ladoga and Onega and on the river Svir. Click on the map for a bigger picture. See Finland and Sweden? See Moscow? Now you have located the area.
I have another page with more maps. The latitude of St Petersburg is a little North of that of Stockholm, 60°N. And we went further North. By end June, there was only about two hours of night, and it was not very dark.

Click on the thumbnails below to open each photo with its legend.

Sistership
Valaam island



Sistership





Balalaika
Rainbow
Sunset
The net
Kizhi
Kizhi
Kizhi
Kizhi closeup
Kizhi general view
Kizhi
Kizhi farm
Main living room
Kizhi boat building
Kizhi handicraft
Russian sauna
Floating shop
River traffic
Dépassement en côte
Ship
Baby bear
Musical saw
Cray-fish
Wooden house
Wind mill
Kizhi
Last miles
Seagulls
A Carelian boy
Docking
St Petersburg painting
One note per musician

MS Saint PetersburgHere is a small picture of the M/S Saint Petersburg (from their web page) and its characteristics:

Map of the ship
You see from the shape of the hull that this large ship is not an ocean-going liner: the freeboard is very low.

Photos © François de Dardel and Hélène Ayma

The music you are listening to if you have clicked on the small icon at the top of this page is the introduction to the second act of Peter Tchaikovski's "Swan Lake".