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Excuses from St. Petersburg

Greetings all! I am now in St. Petersburg, enjoying Russia’s second largest city. I leave tomorrow for Stockholm, Sweden where I will stay for a day and then fly back home to New York.

I’m sorry that I have kept you all in suspense regarding news from Kazan, Moscow and St. Petersburg these last few days, but I’ve just not had time to post anything of substance. I’ll post a whole writeup of our travels in the next couple of weeks and fill you in on the last week of Soviets, banyas, blinis, peroghi, canals, and more! For now, I’ll have to tide you over with a photograph that Erika took of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow.

St. Basil's Cathedral is actually a collection of 10 different churches (each onion dome is its own very small church). It is located in Red Square in the heart of Moscow and has come to be a national symbol of Russia.