Ballroom in the Hermitage

Our Wonderful Adventure

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March 29th 2009
Last night we enjoyed a great dinner at our hotel. We enjoyed their vodka. The trick to serving it is an ice cold glass and freezer stored vodka. It is not a drink that you travel any distance with. I had crepes with their least expensive red caviar. It was delicious. No, John would not partake. Today, hired a guide who John met at the Hermitage. He was a former university professor wh ... read more

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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