Visa Preparation: Round Two, The Palace of Catherine the Great, and Povlovsky.
7/12/09- 7/13/09 Today was a very sad day. The tour is OVER! My Aussies left this morning and Fr. Ilya this afternoon. Now there are only 9 of us left in the St. Petersburg extension and each day the group will shrink by 33% until the last of us leave on July 15th. [...]