Another beautiful palace! I had to take a video to capture the palace from the side
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And took a panorama photo from my iPhone
Amber room!!! WOW!!! Photos not allowed but was able to take this
Wall of paintings!!!! I want to do this too 🙂
James was more amazed at this TV inside the palace haha!!
Behind the palace is a shop selling amber!
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As soon as we got back from Peterhof, we took a boat on the Moyka River:-)
The agency arranged a private boat for us 🙂
it came with blankets in case it was too chilly
Venice? 🙂
Very nice to see the architecture on all the buildings lined up by both sides of the canal
Going under the bridge
One of my favorites 🙂
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We drove outside the city to go to Peterhof and visited the Peterhof Palace. Since it was a very long palace, I took a video from the back of the Palace:-)
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We were not allowed to take photos inside the palace
You have to wear shoe covers to walk inside the Palace! Good idea to preserve the floors
But I have lots of pictures of the beautiful garden and fountains of the palace!
A super big and beautiful garden
View of the Palace from the center of the garden, standing on one of the bridges
Gulf of Finland
Christmas Trees all over!! 🙂
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Our last stop of the day was the Hermitage. What an amazing collection of Art!!!! The museum was swarming with people and all the artworks were just exposed. I was worried how these priceless pieces of art are just there and there are so many of them all in one place and there are a swarm of people just hovering around!
Marina as usual only took us to the most important pieces since we had limited time, But just that alone took us around 2 hours just looking at the artwork and identifying them. As it says here in this write up it will take 11 years for you to see the 3 million exhibit pieces if you were to take one minute per piece! WOW thats a long time! 🙂
What a blessing to have the opportunity to see the works of art you normally just see on cards, posters and in books. Heart2Heart loves ART!
Pissaro
Rodin
Monet
Renoir
Van Gogh
Gauguin
Picasso
Matisse
Floor matching with the ceiling carving
Leonardo Da Vinci
Rembrandt
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My sister made sure we watched the ballet so she got some tickets to watch Romeo and Juliet. We were hoping to watch Swan Lake but it was not showing. Beautiful Marinsky Theater. If you notice the buildings in Russia are very colorful. Mariana told us that they did this so the city would not look too drab and gray – imagine if all the buildings were gray? and imagine in winter when the weather is dark and gloomy? the city would be all gray! 🙂
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Next stop was the Yusupov Palace! Beautiful! We liked this palace the best even if it did not have a garden and even if it was not as big and as grand as the others. It’s probably the most realistic or the closest one to reality. The pieces inside are elegantly done and not to gaudy 🙂
Lunch is included in the tour and Marina took us to Brasserie de Metropole
A Three star michelin chef comes by once in awhile to cook in the restaurant!
Beautiful interiors! We had the whole place all to ourselves for lunch. They say that its full at night
Our table right in the middle of the restaurant 🙂
CHICKEN ALA KIEV!!!!!! We were so happy!! Too bad this was very small 🙂 but we really loved the food. This was when we realized Russian food is not bad at all! 🙂
And this molten chocolate cake was so so good!!
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