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I went on a river cruise from St. Petersburg, along the Neva river, through Lake Ladoga and Onega, to Kishi Island, to Goritsy, Yaroslavl, Uglich, along the canal to Moscow., in 2011. You'll have a great time! The tour guides on the ship were very helpful.
Near St Petersburg, you should visit Catherine's Palace (Puskin palace or Tsarskoye Selo) and Peterhof. Both were an extra cost option, and quite worth it. You should visit St Isaacs Cathedral, and Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St Petersburg.
You must visit Kishi Island , where there is a huge open air museum of wooden onion dome churches. They were dis-assembled from their original site, transported there, and re-assembled on the island.
In Yaroslavl, see and photograph inside the church of St Elijah the Prophet. This is significant, because most churches (especially in the Kremlin, the Annunciation, Assumption and Archangel Cathedrals) will not allow photos to be taken inside. You can take all the pictures you want outside.
In Uglich, you can photograph inside and out of Church of St Dmitry on Spilled blood.
In Moscow, go crazy inside the Kremlin, but a great tip from someone else: Pay the fee to go up in the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, as it will give you a high vantage and photographic point inside the Kremlin, that you can't get anywhere else!
I can speak limited Russian and can read the Cyrillic alphabet. That was a help as I ran around Moscow on my own and on the subway. Asked the locals for directions. The interiors of the different Moscow subway stations are spectacular.
Spilled Blood St Petersburg
Triton fountain in Peterhof
Kishi churches
Archangel and Annunciation Cath from Ivan Bell Tower
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