The title says it all. My wife’s friend Olga, went to Russia for the holidays to visit her family. She is a doctor living in St. Petersburg, Florida. She took her roommate/boyfriend - let’s call him John - with her and this where it gets interesting. You see he had never been to Russia and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘yekaterinburg’
Winter Blues
Wow, I am tired of winter. We’ve had a couple nice days recently and it really makes you want spring to come a bit sooner. Glad I don’t live in Russia!
My in-laws will be here soon. My wife will meet them in Ekaterinburg next month and fly back with them. She is getting exited for [...]
A Little Ekaterinburg History
The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of tsar Peter the Great’s wife Catherine (Yekaterina). It was renamed Sverdlovsk after the Bolshevik party leader and Soviet official Yakov Sverdlov from 1924 to 1991.
Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, [...]
