In 1993 I finally got to do a trip I'd been planning for many years, taking trains around Europe on a Eurail pass. One of the visits was to my pen-pal Tatiana Sofiskaya. She and her husband took me around the city and even out to an open air museum, over the course of several days. I'm throwing this site together quickly to get the pictures up of what a beautiful city it was back then, and probably always. Ksenia, the daughter, came to visit us for the school year of 1995-6.