Russia Part 4 - St. Petersburg III

In the morning we went to Pushkin, a small village in the south of St. Petersburg. There Catherine the Great built a summer palace in the Russian barock style (which is defined by a lot of gold and stuff). It was destroyed during the second World War and afterwards reconstructed (well, it is still being reconstructed). The amber room (Bernsteinzimmer) was stolen by the Germans and also reconstructed in every exact detail. Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures of it.


On the way back we stopped on Moscva Bulevard in front of Lenin's statue which is standing in front of the building, that was supposed to be the Duma of St. Petersburg but because of a change in policy the center of St. Petersburg did not move out of the historical center as the Sowjets would have liked.


For Lunch we did some souvenir shopping before going on a walking tour following the tracks of Dostojevskis book 'Crime and Punishment'. The main character of the book was living in quarters quite near to the center. Our guide was reading us to us from the book and we were following the exact way that the guy took.


Later in the evening we had the Russian Dinner with 5 meals and a Russian instrumental group providing entertainment. The last evening we spent with a bottle of sparkling wine and some other guys at the sofas in front of our room at the very very end of the fucking long hallway in our hotel. It was nice though :)