Essay: Russia in my mind. (200 words or so, first year 1 unit 4 lessons)(Urgent Before 8:15)?

In St. Petersburg, I boarded the Avro cruiser in the cold, biting wind. Ninety years ago, the first shots of the October Revolution were fired from this cruiser; on a World War II battlefield outside St. Petersburg, I tried to search the snowy wasteland for traces of the magnificent defense of Stalingrad ......

From the Winter Palace to the Summer Palace, from the Kremlin to the Smolny Palace, from the Church of the Dropping of the Blood to the Three Holy Church, from town to town, airplane, car and train after train, non-stop. In nine short days, we visited all the places we needed to, densely photographing the Russian landscape. Everywhere we went, history was obsessively pursued and examined. As one group member put it, it was a historical review and learning trip.

This is especially true for me. For me, visiting Russia was not only a geographical and historical tour of the country, but also a retrospective of my own upbringing. There are so many monuments and sites in this cold land that evoke memories for me. Everywhere I went, I felt like I was going back to my own past as I listened to Russia's history.