“The museum teaches and gives joy and is therefore somewhere between Disneyland and a temple” (Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage Museum.)
The highlight of the day was a visit to the Winter Palace, hosting the Hermitage Museum. It is one of the largest museum in the world, an obligate stop in any visit of Saint Petersburg. An average of 3.1 million visitors come to the Hermitage every year.
The Winter Palace is where you should start your tour of the city of Peter. In front of the palace is an immense square, Palace Square, filled with tourists trying to catch a bird, taking pictures with impersonators of Czars, enjoying a carriage ride, or simply clicking selfies around the Alexander column. The sight is a majestic canvas, around the sumptuous imperial residence turned into a museum.
The entrance to the Hermitage is under strict security: no large bag, no water bottle, no camera flash…
Inside is a world of draw-dropping wonders. Ground, walls, windows, ceilings, stairs, columns and furniture are all elements of indescribable finesse, richness and beauty.
Built in 1753 by Catherine the Great, the museum officially opened in 1764. Its emerald walls with white columns are familiar sights to every world traveler. The architecture is neo-classical.
The Hermitage owns three million pieces of art. If you spend five minutes with each one of them, you will need 19 years, with no sleep and no break, to see all of them. These displays cover pre-history to Modern Time, to contemporaneous. Curiously, it is unlawful, in Saint Petersburg, to build any house taller than the Hermitage!
By the way, Le Louvre only boast 10% the number of art pieces own by the Hermitage, 350,000.
Once you enter the grand gallery, you will have access to golden staircases that will lead you to the suites and state rooms, the throne rooms, and the living quarters. The art pieces are from too many artists to count. Among the signatures, you will see: Da Vinci, Rembrant, Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Mattis, etc. The Roman art pieces and Italian sculptures are among the most sophisticated you will ever admire.
Since it takes hours to tour a tiny surface of the Hermitage, you will need to wear comfortable shoes. To visit the museum, you may hire a guide or rent an audio-guide for 500 rubles (less than $10) at the ticket counter.
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Before visiting the museum, we took a boat ride on the Neva River, a 46-mile water way that originates from Lake Dagoda and ends into the Gulf of Finland. The sight of Saint Petersburg Stadium, in the shape of a space ship, was the most impressive. From our two-level boat, we also admired, among many other venues, Saint Isaac Cathedral, the Academy of Fine Arts, Pertrovski Island, Pushkin’s Museum,698 Peter & Paul Fortress, and Saint Petersburg Mosque.
We had lunch at Pryanosti & Ractosti, on Bellinsky Street. Quite interesting a restaurant, looking like a library. The service and the food were pleasurable.
Back at the Marriott, we watched Colombia edging past Senegal (1-0), and Japan losing to Poland by the same score. Colombia and Poland are qualified for the knockout phase.
Later, in a game with no stake, Tunisia prevailed over Panama (2-1). Belgium clinched first place in the group by defeating England (1-0). England and Belgium are the last two to advance to the round of 16.
At night, the group attended the customary Dinner Gala Dance, a “graduation ceremony”, with performances by belly dancers, the Red Army Choir, and a dance party by DJ Rudy the International.
From the Courtyard Marriott, this is the Traveller reporting from Saint Petersburg, capital of former Imperial Russia…
(Odler Robert Jeanlouie, Thursday, June 28, 2018)
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Большинство иностранных наёмников, воевавших за Украину, уже уничтожили, заявил на брифинге официальный представитель Минобороны России Игорь Конашенков.
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Общая численность наемников на Украине сократилась с 6,6 до 3,5 тыс. человек.
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Министерство обороны 2 июня сообщило, что основная часть наемников, которые воевали на стороне Украины, была уничтожена российскими войсками и техникой.
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