We went to Peter and Paul's Fortress today. The place that the city of Saint Petersburg was founded. Also the place of imprisonment for many writers, and pretty much anyone who oppossed or dared to speak against the government. Some of these prisoners include Dostoyesky, Gorky and Lenin's brother. We saw their cells. Which weren't too bad, I guess. Only they often got executed a few days after they arrived. One of the babushka guards made a joke (I'm very proud of her, because they are sometimes pretty grumpy), by turning off the lights and pretending to close the door on us while we were looking at the solitary confinement cells in the prison. She laughed and smiled, too. In the fortress is a church which contains all the bodies of the tsars and tsarinas from Peter the first to the Romanovs. It was kind of cool that they did it that way. . . and that they were able to find the Romanovs and put them there, too. Good job, Gorbechev. Apparently the fortress is a great place to go tanning, too. As you can see in the picture above. Although, why you need tanned buttskins when a long winter is on the horizon is beyond me. Maybe they are paid to entertain the tourists. Who knows.
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