Hermitage

Baltic Sea Cruise - Third stop: Russia

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August 28th 2008
For the next two days we would stop in Saint Petersburg, Russia. We have splitted the our tours into two halves, so we would see as much as possible of it. On our first day we started out from the harbour to the famous Eremitage, where we had a couple of hours to see the huge and beautiful rooms. It was not nearly enough time to see it all, you really need at least 2 whole days to do so. But we sa ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more