Curch of the Spilled Blood,St petersburg

A stroll around St Petersburg

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May 26th 2009
We varied our breakfast after yesterdays cereal that looked like semolina and went instead for the "Berliner".The standard components from yesterdat but with a donut that looked in the picture like it would have cream.It didn't but there was gooy chocolate inside so that made up for the lack of cream. City walk director,Gretchen(unpaid,after all this is a budget trip)had scoured the St Petes map ... 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