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We boarded our boat in Moscow, where we spent three days getting to know the city. |
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Moscow airport. Not all this luggage was ours. |
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Our river cruise boat, the Novikov-Priboy, named for a noted Russian author of sea stories. |
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The Moskva-Volga waterway terminal buliding in Moscow. |
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John and Susan enjoy a Russian beer at a pierside cafe. |
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The New Maiden Convent. Czars could send their wives here when they tired of them. |
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The church of Our Savior, shich had beed destroyed during the Soviet years and rebuilt from scratch. |
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Moscow University. One of seven nearly identical Stalin Gothic wedding-cake buildings. |
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The Bolsoi ("Big") Theater, which was under renovation. |
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Moscow city-scape. |
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