Day 18 - Our First Day in Siberia

Our first day in Yekaterinburg included a visit to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Museum. It was a huge comlpex celebrating the life of the father of democracy in Russia. Yeltsin is their George Washington and welearned  many things about this "people's president" that we were not exposed to in 1991-3. He was wuite a kind fellow. 

Afterward we took a short walk through the mainsquare  before visiting the Cathedral on Spilled Blood, built as a memorial to the royal family that was  murdered in 1918 at this site.  

Following lunch we viewed the mass graves of 18,000 victims of Stalin's genocidal rage. He murdered over 26 MILLION people during his reign of terror. BASTARD!!!

Following two somber events we drove out to the marker representing the border between Europe snd Asia. There we were treated to music snd dancing by alocal  group of costumed entertainers. Our guide certainly knew how to change the mood.