“Mom and I are standing in front of the Church on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia,” wrote Ann Bernstein of Minneapolis.
“The church was built on the very spot where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated on March 1, 1881. The Literary issue was a perfect travel companion in this country, where things seem familiar until you look a little closer, and then they become strange.”
Actually, after looking closely at this photograph, we noticed that the Bernsteins (mother, Edna, and daughter, Ann) are posed with our May 2006 Guns issue. Though the Emperor was assassinated with a bomb, not a handgun, this strikes us as somehow appropriate.
Send along your Rakish travel snaps by snail mail or to prodmail@rakemag.com, and if we publish yours, we’ll send you a nonthermal, nonextreme Rake T-shirt and a $25 gift certificate from West Photo (21 University Ave. N.E., Minneapolis).
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