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Tour Day 7: Catherine Palace and Yussopov Palace
Catherine Palace is a huge complex in Pushkin, a little way out of St Petersburg. Of course, a lot of its surfaces are covered in gold leaf. It has a beautiful room, the Illuminated Hall, which has mirrors on the walls and hundreds of candles (now replaced by light bulbs of course). Elton John once played a concert there. After Catherine Palace, we visited Yusopov Palace in the St Petersburg centre. This was bought by the Yusupov ...
Day 3 - St. Petersburg
... sure it was vodka, though...I mean we are in Russia after all).
After dinner we went to check in to our hotel, the Knights Inn, which cost R1,254.75 for the night.
Today's Russian word of the day is спаси
73;о (pronouced spasibo), which means thank you. спаси
73;о Vlad, for showing us the amazing Sampsonievsky Cathedral!
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From Russia
... paintings there are chandeliers and ceilings to look at, and the gardens attached are lovely. There is also a collection of 'Folk Art' like lace and toys and half of someone's roof. The collections goes from some of the earliest Russian art, through Icons, through the 15th century and up to present day, it has All Russian art! This and the Hermitage museum hold like the biggest collection of art anywhere!
We did a short walking tour around the historic old ...
Palaceburg
... of the city by the Nazis continued until 1944.
In June 1991 as a result of a referendum the city was renamed to St Petersburg (locals just call it "Peters")
After 3 days of wandering around I felt I'd seen a lot of palaces and museums - they say it takes 9 years to see everything in the Hermitage museum alone and I can believe this. On one nice day I walked the 45 minutes ...
Pусский
... it's really only Monday and Tuesday that are insane. There are only three people in my class, including me, and the other two have both had a semester under their belts, so I’m playing a significant amount of catch-up. Our teacher is Olga, an insanely cute tiny little twenty-six year old Russian woman with long curly blond Goldilocks hair. The first day I decided that her welcoming appearance only served to amplify her cold steely gaze and judgmental scoffing at ...
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