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Peter the Great et al
... Lots of gold and water. -Nicholas I was a nice guy and worried about the stress his wife and daughter were under. He built them pavillions to go and chill in. They weren't for living in, they didn't have bedrooms, they were for privacy and they are lovely. -Russian tour guides walk really fast and don't give you much time to take pictures. But here are the ones we have. -If you haven't visited St Petersburg, put it on your bucket list. It is fascinating and ...
Ballerinas and a Day off
... Street for a couple miles and she takes me into this ticket office for all kinds of events. The only thing that I could figure out was that she wanted to see a ballet. Sure, why not. But I could never figure out what ballet we were going to, or where it was. I had a feeling it would be a 3 mile walk... it was!!!
Well last night we go out and she's asking all these people something about where the theater is. We finally found it, ...
Санкт-Petersburg
... could see the Baltic Sea from the palace.
We also stopped at the State Museum for Russian Political History. It was pretty interesting. The main theme was "Stalin was bad," but you could tell it was still somewhat biased over the rest of the topics. Interesting to see, though.
St. Petersburg was so neat; three days was not enough! It's definitely in my top 5 cities in the world (so far!). I already want to go back.
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Bread and Circuses
... apartments in ugly, decrepit blocks of uniform flats that are uniformly falling apart. Like every big city, there are drunks on the street, people so drunk at 10 in the morning that they can't even stand up. I saw one old man, totally confused and drunk, being led away by a passer-by who sat him down and told him to stay put. He didn't seem homeless, just a citizen who had great misfortune. Mila told us that her husband became an alcoholic, and they split up. ...
The New Apartment
... 8-10 people, so the apartment is ideal for having get-togethers. What stands out the most when you first enter, aside from the almost vault-like front door, is a large, floor-to-ceiling bookshelf filled with very, very old Russian books - everything from Pushkin, to Tolstoy, to Dostoevsky. Many of the collections on this wall are worth a fortune, but they still belong to the owners.
Although a newer, more modern, ...
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