Day 27: 22/01/2007
Well by far the most interesting part of our day was the "erotic museum" which required us to buy a book written in Cyrillic for 40RUR to get in. It's is actually a VD clinic that claims to have Rasputin's penis. So basically it's a 10m long corridor with clinic rooms (with patients) on one side and sexual novelty items (shot glass shaped like a penis anyone?) on the other. At one end is a penis in a jar. Suffice to say, I don't believe for a second that it is even a human penis (trust me, I should know), let alone Rasputin's.
From wiki:
"In 2004, Igor Knyazkin, the chief of the prostate research center of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, announced that he was opening a Russian museum of erotica in St. Petersburg, Russia. Among the exhibits, Knyazkin claims, is the 11 inch (30 centimeter) long "preserved penis" of Grigory Rasputin, [5], along with several of Rasputin's letters. [2] He stated that he purchased the items from a French collector of antiquities and artifacts for €6,600 (US $8,000). Knyazkin had said that merely viewing the supposed penis will cure males of impotency. [6] No known tests have been done to verify that the genitalia is indeed that of the Russian."
After that we got tourist taxed for about $20AUD on shitty food. Bitch.