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Arrived at St. Petersburg docks, beautiful day. We spent two days here. The first day we took a tour of the Hermitage, one of the world's great museums. |
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Russian band to greet us off the ship. |
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With our guide on the Hermitage/Winter Palace steps. In four hours we saw about 1/20th of it. |
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Svetlana was our guide. She was great, with beautiful, clear English. |
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We all had headphones so we could hear her. |
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One of many guilded rooms. |
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Rafael's Loggia, a copy of the one in the Vatican, but still stunning. |
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Floor pattern |
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Malachite vase. |
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Closeup of Loggia ceiling. |
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A wall of portraits of Russian field marshalls. |
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Many amazing Greek vases |
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Gold peacock clock. |
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Two Madonnas by Leonardo da Vinci. |
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Franz Hals |
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Raphael (I think). |
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Rembrandt |
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Grecian drapery. |
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Dutch masters. |
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Changing the lightbulbs. |
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Every door had a knob like this one! |
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