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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Day 21: Saint Petersburg


This picture was taken on September 8th, 2012.  So since I am in Saint Petersburg I thought that I would add a cool picture from the pictures that I have taken.  Here we have спас на крови (Church on Spilt Blood).  It is such a cool looking cathedral.  Its design is new old-style Russian church because it is only about a hundred years old but looks like it should be 200 or 300 years old.  Similar to St Basil's cathedral in Moscow.


The church is actually on a canal and Sveta (the tour guide) talked about why that was significant.  Tsar Alexander II was assassinated here and his son build the church in memorial of his father