The Hermitage/ winter palace

The greatest museum in Eastern Europe. Take your student card and it's free! Just look out for the police cars speeding across the square.

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Winter Russian style

November 24th 2005
My overnight train to St. Petersburg was quite pleasant. Minus the old creepy woman wearing a wig who insisted on sitting in the chair across from my bed the entire first half of the journey staring at me. I've been getting used to all the walking involved in travel. My pack seems to be getting heavier and heavier and the hikes between the stations to the hostels longer and longer. St. Petersbur ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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

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