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Monthly Archives: July 2013
In Which We Take a Walk Around Saint Petersburg
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20 June For the second time in writing this journal, I can use this phrase: This morning, it’s official. In this instance, it means the scratchy throat and intermittent achiness of the past few days is now a full-fledged cold. …
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A Bus Tour, Dostoevsky, and Shots on a Train
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19 June One of the peculiarities of this trip has been our oddly coordinated arrival times with regard to checking-in to our hotels. It may be that we’re coming and going at the only times available and I hope that’s …
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In Which Tolstoy Meets Fellini
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18 June – Afternoon It’s time to recount my afternoon with Erin traveling to the Khamovniky neighborhood to see the house and garden where Count Leo Tolstoy frequently spent his winters in the 1880s and 1890s. We had no difficulty …
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In Which We Get a Peek Inside the Kremlin
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18 June Today is off to a fairly easy start. We’re leaving the hotel around 08:00 to try to get a good spot in the queue to visit Lenin’s Tomb. The mausoleum opens at 10:00 but the line often forms …
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In Which We Arrive in Moscow and Erin and I See Dead People
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17 June As I noted at the close of yesterday’s entry, I slept fitfully last night. The truth is I was awake at 05:00, wrote a bit, and tried exiting the cabin quietly in an effort to disturb my mates …
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