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Assassinations and Pierogis
... increases the number of tourists. If you think of every cruise ship of having at least 1,000 people, then you go from having 4 ships to 6… makes the museums a bit more crowded. Luckily we went to the most popular museums a couple of days ago, so we’re set.
Today we first went to the Church on Spilled Blood, which is built on the place where Alexander II was assassinated. It’s a very interesting ...
The Awesome Catherine Palace
... the exception of Peter II. The remains of the last czar, Nicholas II, along with his family were buried there. Some of Nicholas II household staff members were buried in St Catherine’s Chapel within the Cathedral in 1998.
After the tour we returned to the Rurik for dinner followed by a very enjoyable Russian folklore show set up in a tent on the dock. The show consisted of traditional songs, dances and music performed by a talented troupe in traditional ...
Leningrad
... pie went down nicely.
I had the fun experience of booking my onward train travel to Moscow. My kind hostel host wrote down exactly what I needed to say, ahem, or hand over. The Moscow bound train station is huge, it took 5 minutes to locate the ticket office. A long wait to the front of the line is met with a grumpy face and a frustrated shouting individual. She's asking me a question and ...
Russian Palace Roulette
... we’ll be closer tomorrow), Yusupov Palace AND THE EXACT WINE CELLAR ROOM WHERE RASPUTIN WAS MURDERED WHICH CONTAINS AN EXACT LIKENESS OF HIM PICTURED HERE FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE (caps mine). We also took our cruise along the city’s Fontanka (fountain) canal and, for a brief time, on the Neva River. The Neva is not the widest river, we are told, but it is the deepest and it carries the greatest water flow to the sea of any river in Europe.
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Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes
... and asked her a question. She shrugged her shoulders and said "no". He said something more forcefully, so I leaned over. "What do you want? Paper or a pen?" He yelled back something about paper, and from the back of the bus,we heard another guy yell, "Please! The word you want is 'please'!!" I ripped out some paper from a book and gave it to him. He started making a list - pharmacy, home, that sort of thing. Then something ticked over in his mind. All of a sudden, ...