I've arrived to Saint Petersburg to study russian. All of us students here study together in Tromsoe on a bachelor degree named Russia-studies. The universities in Norway have in coorporation with a university here in Petersburg a centre, where we are taught russian. The name of the course is practical russian. But they also allow us time for being tourists and on Sunday a trip to a nearby castle was arranged. The summer residence of Catherine the Great- or Ekatarina as her name is in Russian. To protect the floor they had us all wear these blue papershoes.
During the 2nd world war this residence was used heavily by the intruding Germans (nemetskij in Russian which means something like those who don't know, i.e. how to speak) Later the sovjet government had difficulties deciding wether to restore the residence or use the money to feed their people. The first alternative was chosen, which we can now benefit from ( if at least for 30 minutes or so)
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