Baltics (2007):
Lithouania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia

Via Baltica

• Amsterdam Schiphol (train) - Kopenhagen (SAS) - Vilnius (Air Baltic) [Hotel Karolina, Sausio13-osios St. 2, LT-2050 Vilnius].
• Vilnius: city tour, Gedimonotower, cathedral, Gates of Dawn (?), University, St Anna Church, St Paul Church. Trip to the Galve Lake with the Trakai Castle.
  
  The city is placed in the Napoleontian history in the boek "1812 -- Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow" by Adam Zamoyski.
  See also Wikipedia.
  
  
• Kaunas: visit of center - Siauliai (mountain of crosses) - Riga [Hotel Karavella, Katrina dambi, LV-1045 Riga].
• Riga: city tour, cathedral, freedom monument, powder tower, the "Three Brothers" old houses, Jugendstil architecture (Cat house), St Petrii Church (with a nice view from the tower), River Daugaval, flee market, Dutch embassey.
• Riga (etnographic open air museum, "Latvijas etnografiskais brivdabas muzejs") - Parnu (Estonian resort at the Bay of Riga) - Tallinn [Reval Hotel Central, Narva road 7C, 10117 Tallinn].
• Tallinn: St Brigitta monastery (Pirita river), city tour, Toomkirik (Dome Church), city hall, city square, parliament building with Pikk Herman tower, city walls & thick Margereta tower, Kiek-in-de-Kök Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, harbour with terminals for cruise ships.
  
  The Dome Church (Toomkirik, St Mary's Cathedral of Tallinn) contains the grave of Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770-1846), in Russia known as Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern, Imperial Russian, Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian Service who in 1803-1806 led the first Russian circumnavigation of the world with the ships Nedezhda and Neva (also to look for options to colonize California). He had been born in Estonia (then a Russian province). The famous tall ship Kruzenshtern, the Russian marine training ship, is named after him.
  
  
• Coastal road to Russia: at Narva border with visa checks. Finally to St Petersburg [Hotel Obuhoff, 1 Knipovich St, 192019 St Petersburg].
• St Petersburg: city tour, bronze rider, St Isaac's Cathedral, Nevskiy Prospekt, Admirality, Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection ("The Savior on Blood"), Palace Square, skyblue Smolny Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, the blue Trinity Cathedral, The house of Peter I, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, cemetery with tombes of Dostojevski, Moessorgski, Tsjaikovski, Borodin Glinka and in the other half: Leonhard Euler (Bazel 15 April 1707- St Petersburg 18 Sept. 1783)!.
  
  The tombe shows the year 1837, which is 25 years after Euler's death. In the book by N.N. Bogolyubov, G.K. Mivhailov, A.P. Yushkevich (Eds.), "Euler and Modern Science -- The MAA Tercentenary Euler Celebration" (trans. from Russian by R. Burns), Math. Association of America, 1983, ISBN 9780883855645, on p. 405, the solution is given.
  Euler died on sept. 18, 1783 and was buried in the Smolensk Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery on Vasil'evskii/Vasilievsky Island (on this island Euler had lived, close to the university) with a grave stone in German text. Several decades later this stone plaque was overgrown and in 1837 a massive sarcophagus of polished pink Finnish granite was erected. In 1957, in connection with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Euler's birth, his remains and the monument, were removed to the Lazarian Cemetary of the Aleksander Nevskii Monastery.
  
  
• St Petersburg: the Peter and Pauls Fortress and Cathedral with tombs, the marine vessel "Aurora (where the 1917 revolution started) and the State Hermitage!.
• To Amsterdam via a (long) stop in Copenhagen (problems with a wheel: the spare part had to be flown in from Sweden)

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