Originally Posted by
clipper.fortune
We did a Baltic cruise on Emerald that same summer. I remember the Russians not letting us into St. Petersburg, then they relented and let us in after they took our temperatures.
Yours may have been the cruise after ours (ours was r/t Copenhagen 25 June-05 July). They didn't take our temperatures, but they did block the crew from going ashore, which made them pretty surly for the rest of the cruise.