Sunday churches

Saturday was my Russian National Library day. Sunday morning, I returned to Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral for 10:00 Service. I did manage to videotape (for those of you on Facebook, I have a clip there). I then went to Smolny Cathedral to purchase my ticket for the Wednesday night Arvo Part concert. Smolny has been converted completely into a concert hall. It's quite stunning - another baroque design by the 18th-century Italian, Rastrelli. It was completed just in time for the reign of Catherine the Great. Now back to the Russian National Library and tonight a performance of Bach's B minor mass!!