Second last day in St. Petersburg

Today I first went to Peter & Paul fortresss in order to visit the Cathedral where the Emperors and Empresses are interred. I payed homage to Peter and Catherine the Great. It was a little frustrating to have to wait behind the masses of bus tours but that is part of the game at a major tourist destination. I then had a Russian lunch on Nevsky, followed by more manual copying of a Davydov 6-part concerto at the Russian National Library. Copying by hand is exhausting. Why by hand? They won't photocopy older publications. This one has no year, but it is clearly at least 150 years old! I didn't quite finish (tomorrow!). I then went to the Smolny Cathedral Chamber Choir concert at the Smolny Concert Hall. They beautifully performed Arvo Part's "Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem".