Peter and Paul fortress is where St. Petersburg started. The fortress was constructed around the first small wooden church in town and then around the wooden church, a bigger church was built. And now it houses all the caskets of the Czars, even the great patriarch of St. Petersburg, Peter the Great. End scene.
An hour later we were at Peter's homeboy's crib, Menshikov. This cat had a sprawling crib right on the rivers edge and Peter would hang there often and play chess with the all silver chess set. When Peter died, Menshikov ran the show with Peters widow for about two years until Peters nephew was old enough to take power and banished him to Siberia! Thanks for your service Menshikov, now kindly see yourself to Siberia. Menshy (as I call him) died out there in the cold and lost all his lands, palaces, and wealth. Bummer dude. It was cool while it lasted. While peter was alive, he did do some traveling though and stashed a lot of stuff in the many rooms of his place: rooms full of Dutch tile, Chinese silk, etc. He was big pimpin' for sure, now, not so much.
I am officially palaced out.
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