Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Russian Peter the Great era reenactors

I am not the only one who likes to keep up with our Russian guardsmen of the era of Peter the Great friends you know - lots of - well some - folks like to see what is going on over there as it usually looks fun and there's usually a spectacular element to it. These pictures are great - they are celebrating the founding of a town in 1703 - certainly looks quite different to here anyway...
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have a look at them rowing and having fun

The town Petrozavodsk was founded in June 1703 and in festivities this weekend.