Peter the Great's Tomb

St Petersburg City Tour with the Peter and Paul Fortress

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May 1st 2018
Day 17 You can’t travel without some bad weather and today was our day with heavy rain and temperatures in the upper 40’s. We started the day with a bus tour of the city. You know the tours where you sit on the bus and the guide points out buildings and gives you a two-sentence factoid. St. Petersburg will be hosting the World Cup and so the city is being spruced up which means road repair ... 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