Touring St. Petersburg
May 17th 2007 Today was a day devoted to being a tourist and I have to say I have enjoyed myself. This morning after breakfast I walked down to the “Church of the Resurrection of Christ” which is also known as the “Savior on the Spilled Blood” (I mentioned this in Saturday’s post). It was built between 1883 and 1907 on the spot where Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia , was mortally wounded in 1881
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