Time I brought this to a close. Last ones - I promise.
This is the famous Bolshoi Theatre. It was closed.
Statue of Marshal Zhukov, the overall chief of the army in WW2, said to be a superb military commander and probably the man whose ideas defeated the Nazis. At the victory parade after the war he elected to attend on horseback, hence the statue. He became very popular with the Russian people and Stalin became very wary and jealous even though Zhukov had no political aspirations. Some say he was lucky to survive as many who got on the wrong side of Stalin didn't.
This is the Cathedral of The Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg's equivalent to St. Basil's in Moscow.
Lenin's Tomb, the step like building in the foreground. It's where all the Soviet bigwigs used to stand to watch the military parades in Red Square. Lenin looks like a waxwork dummy and for all I know it might well be a waxwork dummy. His ear fell off a few years back but has been repaired/replaced.
The ship we travelled on, the Segei Yesenin. The Russians often name ships after writers and poets. Yesenin was a very popular poet who committed suicide aged 30 in 1925. He was married five times and one of his marriages was to Isadora Duncan although it only lasted a year. She spoke no Russian and he spoke no English.
That's yer lot.
how many bottles of Vodka did that take. 
. Thank you very much for such an interesting series of posts and pictures.
