There is a cruise (grin) Russia way. It's expensive and you need a month off though.
"foster parenting" would be wonderful! Good luck if you decide to go that route! : )
As for cruises, I won a vacation on a cruise once and gave it away. Nothing on earth would make me go aboard one of those things! I travelled to France from Dover once on a ferry, was green all the way there, sick whilst there and ill all the way back. Next time i visited Europe I either went via the channel tunnel or by airplane! : )
Oh no. No Russian cruises for me. I don't even speak Russian. (or Japanese for that matter)