Uglich, the town of Tsarevich Dmitry
On the seventh day of our cruise tour in Russia, our boat called at Uglich, a town on Volga River. The tour started at 8:30 in the morning when the weather was…
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Sightseeing in Yaroslavl, the second part
The symbol of Yaroslavl in Russia is a bear. One of them was sitting on the bench in the town. The legend says that when Yaroslav the first founded this town, the…
Sightseeing in Yaroslavl
Six days after leaving Saint Petersburg on our cruise holiday in Russia, our boat went through the large reservoir Rybinsk and onto the famous Volga River at last. The Volga is the…
Goritsy and Kirillov
Our cruise ship in Russia went on from Lake Onega down south to Lake Beloye. Lake Beloye means ‘white lake’, but the water was muddy brown. It was at least paler than…
Refreshing Kizhi Island
During our cruise tour in Russia, the place I liked most was the Kizhi Island. Our boat entered Lake Onega, the second largest lake in Europe from the Svir River and went…
Happy Mandrogi
The first port of call during our cruise in Russia was Mandrogi, a village on Svir River. This is a new village which was recognised as a village in 1999 and the…
