Romanov Tombs

Today right after breakfast, Katherine, Ally, Tricia and I left for Peter and Paul Fortress. We did some really great metro maneuvering with two transfers after Lesnaya. When we got there we first went into the church to see all of the tombs. Everyone was there from Peter I to Alexander III. I had the chills. You could smell their bones in this city of ghosts! I took ten billion pictures.

After that, we walked around a little and I bought my stepfather some Soviet coins. I also got myself a Nicholas II egg.

Then we went into the prison where Lenin's brother was kept for the attempted assassination Alexander III. Dostoevesky was there and other famous prisoners as well. (Gorky, I think?) The cells were so small and dark and we got to see the room for solitary confinement. It was so scary. After that, we went to the St. Petersburg History Museum. They had a lot of cool stuff there, but we couldn't read the cards because they were only in Russian, so it was a little boring without knowing what everything was.

Then we went to the Air and Space Museum there, which is not really up my alley. Finally, there was a small wax museum exhibit in a tent. Katherine and I really wanted to go in because we thought that it would be all the Tsars, but it wasn't. It was wax figures of these weird circus freaks and some weird guy in the tent kept talking to us, so we left quickly.

After that, we left the fortress and took the metro back to Nevsky. Then we walked to Pizza Hut. We were all so hungry and sick of Russian food! Plus, they had the menu in English, and it was the best Pizza I ever ate.

After lunch, we walked along the Moika (my favorite street!) and back to Nevsky and up to the church on "Spilled Blood," built on the site where Alexander II was assassinated. On the way up, I met an artist painting the cathedral and stopped to talk to him. I bought his painting.

There was a big souvenir market behind the church where we shopped around for a while. BY this time, it was around 6:00 PM and we tried to buy a ticket into the church, but it was closed. That was out of the question, we headed home.

We didn't get dinner on Sunday and I got hungry, so I tried to make some of that soup, but it came out really gross. Then Katherine, Ally and I just hung out and talked and did our homework.