The diversity of St. Petersburg
April 2nd 2007 After another overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg (again, with little sleep), we arrived and were whisked off onto another city tour. Tsar Nicholas I was reigning during the construction of the Moscow - St. Petersburg railway and our guide told us that when he was drawing the line between the two cities, he accidentally drew around part of his thumb, creating a curve that is 17 km long!
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