Best Things to Do in Russian Cruise Rivers

• Visiting Red Square in Moscow, home to the Kremlin and onion-domed, colorfully painted St. Basil’s Cathedral.
• Being enthralled by the art in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, one of Europe’s greatest museums.
• Touring the lavish palaces  in St. Petersburg that were occupied by the Romanovs prior to the Russian Revolution..
• Seeing the traditional painted wooden homes and churches in the well-preserved Golden Ring villages outside of Moscow.
• Cruising along the Volga, Russia’s legendary -- and longest -- river.
• Basking in the sheer solitude of Russia’s northern lakes and rivers, a world apart from booming, traffic-plagued Moscow.
• Passing through seven locks on the Volga-Baltic Waterway, which connects the Volga to the Baltic Sea and St. Petersburg.