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Russia - St Petersburg (Paperback, New edition)
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Russia - St Petersburg (Paperback, New edition)
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We went to St Petersburg in 2009 for a meeting on an EU project
called ISAAC about heritage tourism. The May weather was marvellous
and we stayed in a nice hotel next to the Fontanka River in walking
distance of Nevsky Prospect. The high spot of our trip was a
private tour of the Impressionist paintings in the Hermitage and
Russian art in the Russian Museum. The Hermitage Museum, founded in
1764 by Catherine the Great is spectacular - lavish, ornate with
the most impressive collection of art. The collections occupy a
complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment,
including the Winter Palace, home of Tsars, centre of imperial
power, scene of the Bloody Sunday massacre of protesters in 1905
and subject to storming by Red Army troops in the October 1917
Revolution. We also had a boat trip to Peterhof, , the Russian
Versailles, begun in 1714 by Peter the Great as his Monplaisir'.
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