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A Russian cruise
June 2002


The cruise The trip
35 pictures of the visited places
Faces Faces and groups.
Some of the participants
Ermitage Ermitage

Saint Petersburg
The State Hermitage museum: a few snapshots
Map Maps
A few maps of our trip
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Note that all the pictures are copyrighted (i.e. my intellectual property).

Here some links about this fascinating region:

The ship
See details of the ship
with plans of the decks and cabins.
ohttp://www.gov.karelia.ru/gov/Different/karelia_e.html  Republic of Karelia (official site)
ohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Karelia Republic of Karelia (Wikipedia)
ohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ladoga Lake Ladoga (Wikipedia)
ohttp://www.spb.org.ru/lake/eng/ladoga.htm Lake Ladoga (scientific data)
ohttp://www.rferl.org/a/russia-valaam-island-society-church/27954877.html Valaam island: a place of pilgrimage
ohttp://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage?lng=en The State Hermitage Museum
The music you are hearing if you have clicked on the small icon at the top of this page is the Quodlibet from J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations.
For more music (mostly classical), see my music page.

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