Sail up the mighty Neva River to see St. Petersburg. Take a canal ride up to Moika River to see Kazan Cathedral (Kazansky Sobor), The Field Of Mars, Marble Palace, The Statue of Alexander III (The Hippopotamus) and The Summer Gardens. Watch a floor show of Russian singing and dancing at St. Petersburg Restaurant. See St. Petersburg Synagogue, The Dom Knigi Book store and The Church Of The Spilled Blood. Take an extensive tour of The Hermitage and Winter Palace as well as The Russian Museum. Take a couple of side trips to Pushkin Palace (Tsarskoye Selo) and Peterhof (Petrodvorets). See The Yusupov Palace where Rasputin's murder began. Finish off your tour at Peter and Paul Fortress (Petropavlovskaya Krepost), where you will see The Romanov Tomb.
Take the train to Moscow to see Red Square, The Kremlin, Lenin's Mausoleum (Mavzolei Lenina) and St. Basil's Cathedral in all its glory. Take an extensive tour of The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Muzei Izobratitelnykh Isskustv imeni Pushkina) and The Tretyakov Gallery (Tretyakovskaya Galereya). See The towering Christ the Savior Cathedral (Khram Khrista Spasitelya). Visit The Kremlin's Alexander Garden to see the changing of the guard at the tomb of The Unknown Soldier, Cathedral Square (Sobornaya Ploshchad), The Hidden Gardens, and The Cathedral of the Annunciation.
Finish off Dave's Russia file with a tour of The Vodka Museum in St. Petersburg. This is an interesting tour of a museum devoted to Russia's favorite libation. During the tour of The Russian Vodka Museum you will learn about Russian history, culture and drinking traditions.