Russia: More photos from 3/14/2017
Breakfast in the Belmond Grand dining room
St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral bell tower
St. Isaac's Cathedral
The Nativity of the Virgin mosaic, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Gilded angel in the sunlight, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Ceiling painting, St. Isaac's Cathedral
Door, St. Isaac's Cathedral
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Mosaic, St. Isaac's Cathedral
3,500 year old Egyptian sphinx at University Embankment on the Neva River
Rostral column lighthouse
Klava, unofficial tsarina of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
Tomb of Peter the Great
Chapel of St. Catherine the Martyr, where the Romanovs are entombed
Stained glass window in the annex of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
Trubetskoy Bastion Prison
Trubetskoy Bastion Prison
Chinese wall
Iurii and Neli Petrochenkov's kitchen
Leaving the Petrochenkov's
Faberge Museum, Shuvalov Palace
Lilies of the Valley Imperial Easter Egg
gift from Nicholas II to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, Easter 1898
Cockerel Imperial Easter Egg Clock
gift from Nicholas II to his mother Maria Fyodorovna, Easter 1900
Fifteenth Anniversary Imperial Easter Egg
gift from Nicholas II to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, Easter 1911
Bay Tree Imperial Easter Egg
gift from Nicholas II to his mother Maria Fyodorovna, Easter 1911
Order of St George Imperial Easter Egg, 1916
the only egg that Maria Fyodorovna was able to take when she fled Russia
Duchess of Marlborough Egg (Pink Serpent Egg), Faberge, 1902
Kelch Chanticleer egg clock, 1904
Snuff box, Faberge Museum
Icon in a filgree and enamel riza, Faberge Museum
Folding Icon: Our Lady of Kazan, St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker, amd St. Alexandra
Gift to Alexandra Fyodorovna for her marriage to Nicholas II, 1894
Our waiter serves us sadzh at Khinkalnaya on the Neva Georgian restaurant
