Showing posts with label St. Petersburg/Russia - St. Peter & Paul Cathedral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Petersburg/Russia - St. Peter & Paul Cathedral. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2015

St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Peter and Paul Cathedral

In America, we have to drive all over the country to visit the graves of our rulers. Russia does it in a much more simple way.

Rulers dating back to Peter the Great are all in the St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, part of a fortress on the Neva River. The list stops in 1917, when the Russian Revolution took place.

The whole place is worth a look, as you could guess by the background of my photo: