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(To the right): St. Basil’s Cathedral(To the left): View of the Kremlin- Praesidium and Supreme Soviet Buildings
(On the Left): Long Line of Visitors to Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum
(On the Right): Spassky Clock Tower of Kremlin
On Left: Lifelong friend: Batag Kokiev
On Right: Women municipal workers clear snow in Red Square
(On the Left): Author on banks of frozen Neva River in Leningrad
(On the Right): Statue of Peter the Great
Left: Russian Army Military Museum/Right:Farmer cuts grass with hand scythe in shadow of Intercontinental Ballistics Rocket
“The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming!”
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Victory of Religion, as crucifix is restored over church which was former anti-religion museum of communist regime
inside St. Petersburg Synagogue, second largest in Europe
Monument to Catherine the Great
Piskarevskoye Cemetery. 600,000 victims, of the 900 day seige of wartime Leningrad, lie here. Most died of starvation.
Lenin’s historic train in the background, which carried him back to Russia in 1917
Graves of Tchaikovsky on the left and Moussorgsky on the right