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Premiers jours à Saint-Petersbourg
... adresse-t-on un mot en anglais à quelqu’un pour demander notre chemin que la personne détourne le regard en faisant un petit non de la main. Rhhh !
Bref, le soir venu, Kostya et Guilyana nous entraînent à l’extérieur pour une virée de nuit ce qui va nous permettre de profiter des magnificences de la ville. Nous atterrissons dans un bar au cadre sympathique où l’on partage quelques bières et quelques petites ...
Petrograd
... DNA testing, which match the DNA to Britain's Prince Philip, a cousin. Nicholas assumed the throne in 1895. He never wanted to rule. In 1905 his military massacred 100's as the marched into St. Petersburg's Palace Square, in what became known as Bloody Sunday. He also accepted political advice from his wife, who was greatly influenced by Rasputin. He was a pilgrim who gained the trust of the royal family, especually after he predicted the survival of the sickly ...
Texas Charm and an IPhone
... Olga assured us it was Russian dumplings (with chicken inside). The sauce was a sour cream like concoction.
For dessert the classic Russian ice cream (vanilla and pistachio) and coffee.
Finally we were headed to the Hermitage. This was my main reason for wanting to go to St Petersburg. When I became aware of the museum some 30 years or more ago, I didn’t think I’d ever get to go. I think it’s about the third largest ...
'Pretentious Moi?'
... completing his commission before thinking "this is where the art begins".
The obvious literary sites to visit in St. Petersburg are Pushkin's house and the Dostoevsky Museum, both of which I sought out as an unashamed pilgrim. There was a notable lack of English information at both destinations but I got a certain amount fo geeky satisfaction from seeing that Pushkin owned an English translation of Rousseau's Confessions and, in my Raskolnikov-like state, ...
Sight seeing - Saint Petersburg!
... did not.
Continuing with the Catherine the Great theme she was responsible for purchasing much of the art work on display inside the Hermitage, about 2 million pieces of art under one roof featuring many of the world's great artists (Monet, Renoir, Da Vinci, Van Gogh). It's unfortunate that many of the works on display didn't strike a chord with me at all, indeed yesterday I wrote a massive diatribe on Monet and other artists questioning what message they ...