Memorial wanderings
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009It truly was quite a challenge to even come up with some sort of comprehensive plan to fully explore a city as diverse and interesting as St Petersburg. Like all the truly great cities history is layered on top of history and new ideas and movements are incorporated or overlaid and the build up becomes a little bewildering to keep your bearings as to what relates to what exactly through time. The way it has worked out is that kind of naturally everything has worked out into themed days. One man made this a whole lot easier for our second to last day in the city, this was to be our first real encounter with some of the results of Stalin’s extreme paranoia and prejudice. [read on]