Monthly Archives: August 2013

Those are my words. This is the new church in the area where the mine shaft was down which the Tsar and his family were dumped.

Peter & Paul Fortress on the Neva River in St Petersburg, originally to protect the city from enemies coming by water. Now a museum. Part of the fortress was used as a prison for various revolutionaries. Grim.

This is a map from the Trans Siberia Handbook.