The Winter Palace

It's been one week...

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September 7th 2007
Since you looked at me. No. That's the BNL song. I've been here a week and I've backloaded some pictures. More will come. Classes have started because Russia too begins school September 1st. All the means for the forty Americans piled together here in Smolny Campus is that we have a siginificant amount of Russian language classes and an odd exposure to Russia teachers. Getting to school ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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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