St. Petersburg, Russia: Princess Peggy visits the Winter Palace

Peggy had a ball dressing up as a princess outside of the Winter Palace. When we had taken the city tour, Peggy was captivated by stories about Elizabeth.

Every piece of information the tour guide shared led to more and more questions.

Elizabeth had 15,000 dresses.

Elizabeth did not want guests at her balls to wear the same dress, either. So she would have the guards of the palace stamp the dresses as the girls left the ball to make sure that the dresses would never be worn again. 

If Elizabeth saw a girl with a hairstyle she did not like, then she would cut it off. 

Peggy could not get enough of Elizabeth. Eventually we were able to continue our lessons about the rest of the Tsars as we visited landmarks around St. Petersburg.  (And I bought books, in Russian and in English, about the Tsars -- from Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II -- which we read on the plane ride back to Chisinau.)