I just stumbled across your excellent article "Russian Women: Myths and Reality" and I wanted to say Thank You for such an honest and insightful piece of writing! It's so helpful to read an honest and objective opinion. Clearly you have thought about these relationships a lot -- after all you live in one yourself -- and I'm impressed with the clarity of your insight and by the way you very honestly explain all the myths, and do not try to reduce your opinions to simple or easy explanations. Thank you!
Todd (California, USA)
I had an ad on your web site a while back. Just to let you know, I visited Moscow and Volgograd to meet some of the ladies who wrote to me. The trip was was a wonderful adventure and all of the ladies I met were wonderful. I will go back later this year to spend a week with just one, and if all goes well, ask her to marry me. Thank you for all your wonderful advice and assistance! Someday soon I will have something for your success stories page.
Kazansky was built at the beginning of the 19th century during one of the many Russian-Turkish wars. Alexander I decided that building a large duplicate of St. Peter's in Rome would prove that Russia was a serious superpower that Turkey shouldn't mess with. Apparently it worked; the Turks surrendered before the cathedral's completion and it was decided to not build a southern colonnade to match the northern one facing Nevsky.
At the moment the Museum of Religion is housed here. In socialist times the cathedral housed the ideologically-slanted Museum of Religion and Atheism and had a graphic Spanish Inquisition exhibition in the basement, complete with a pair of legs jutting out of a cauldron. The current exhibition has a small section (in Russian only) on the history of Catholicism and a larger section on Orthodoxy which includes church art, historical paintings, and various religious knick-knacks.
Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, hero of the Napoleonic War, is buried in the cathedral and there are monuments to him and to General Mikhail Barclay de Tolli in Kazan Square, facing Nevsky. Note that from a certain angle, General Barclay de Tolli seems to be doing something that he shouldn't be doing in public; this is revenge on the randy general for sleeping with the sculptor's wife.
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