Fortress of Peter and Paul

May 12th 2007
Saturday was our first full day in St. Petersburg and a chance to do some sight seeing both formally and informally as well as simply rest. Breakfast was at 9:00 followed by a bus tour of historical St. Petersburg. The day began overcast and rather cool, but the trip was nice to get a feel for how things are laid out so that we were more comfortable later on when we venture out on our own. We s ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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Ben Schafer

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I grew up the oldest son of two parents who LOVE to travel. My father's job as an expert in world soils gave him opportunities to travel for several weeks at a time nearly every summer that I can remember. His stories (and slides) of numerous trips to China during the re-opening to Western visitors after the communist revolution, to both eastern and western Europe (including Berlin on the day/night that the former East Berlin rejoined the economic system of West Berlin/Germany) and African countries such as Tanzania instilled a wanderlust in me from a young age. While I have not had the opport... full info

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