Trip to Russia

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St. Petersburg

The monument to Peter I

Max and his cousin Katya (in the center) with St. Petersburg residents
(picture for only 30 roubles = $1)

St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Nevski boulevard.
The announcement from the time of WW2 says:
'This side of the street is the most dangerous during artillery shelling'

Winter Palace

Summer Palace at Peterhof

Novosibirsk


Chapel located in the geographical center of Russia	Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok


Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry

Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, near the House of Scientists

Siberia played a key role in the Russian civil war of 1918–20). In 1918 Omsk was the capital of the independent (from both Red Forces and White Forces) Siberian Federation.

Siberian Flag

An autonomous Siberian government was soon superseded by the regime of Admiral A.V. Kolchak. The White forces were aided by contingents of czarist political exiles and by the Czech Legion, a group of Austrian army deserters who had hoped to fight alongside the czarist army. In Aug., 1918, a U.S., British, French, and Japanese expeditionary force joined the anti-Bolshevik units in Siberia. The main purpose of this allied expedition was probably to prevent German use of Siberian resources in World War I. Most of Siberia was in White hands by late 1918, but Czar Nicholas II and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk) that year. Early in 1920, Admiral Kolchak's government collapsed, and he was executed.