The Hermitage

Baltic Sea - St Petersburg Day 2

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August 1st 2010
Day 2 in St Petersburg. Oh what a hot day again - Russian immigration was a breeze today - just straight through and off we went in a bus with air conditioned and a tourist guide with a sense of humour! Off to The Hermitage - pronounced Hermitaaaaaaaaaaarrge - which is Catherine the Great's Winter Palace which is on the main river in St Petersburg and during the siege of Leningrad it was cove ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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