Next up on the schedule was one of my home – Russia, or as select few of my American born acquaintances like to refer as Mother Russia.
After an afternoon in the charming Helsinki, we took a Russian run ferry through more of the Baltic Sea into St. Petersburg (also known as Leningrad and Petrograd at one or the other point of its short history as the city).
White Nights of St. Pete
Naturally, my first contact with the Russian culture came on the ferry.
A Touch of Class 