Me at Peterhof

"Peterhof is a great palace-and-park complex of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a summer residence of the Russian Emperors...The happy idea to lay a formal park on the shore of the Gulf of Finland as a memorial to Russia's truimph on the sea belonged to Peter the Great himself."

Weekend in "Peter"

June 5th 2007
I had a very good weekend in, as they would call it, "Peter", short for Saint Petersburg. You know me, I of course have several stories to tell, but overall, it was an excellent weekend and over 250 pictures for anyone that wants to see them...lol I will just post a few here, but if you want to see all of them, let me know and I can send them to you. The best story was the train ride. I though ... 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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