RUSSIA: Tsarkoye Selo...go ye to a nunnery
November 14th 2019 My lasting memory of Russia is a hand washing plate of Catherine the Great in the Patriarch's Palace and Church of the Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles of the Moscow Kremlin that of the 29 Aussies we were probably the only ones to see...'cos they let Denise & I to slip in without tickets.
Twas the most elaborately carved, jewel encrusted gift to her Greatness...vertical sides...about 4 cm deep...
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