August 14-15, 2016 – St. Petersburg
Went on two day tour
with SPB Tours, great young mother guide.
You just know there are a lot of Russians you could really like, and she
was one of them. Very well educated,
good English and good sense of humor (i.e. We were telling her how non-smiling
the women immigration agents were, and she said there are two types of Russian
women, glamorous and Soviet. Our
overwhelming opinion is that Russian towns/cities are dull and drab. Every once in a while you have one of these gilded
Cathedrals or Tzar palaces, but the rest are old and drab architecture or new
and drab architecture. Their architects
must be those that flunk engineering school.
Hard to imagine the living standards of the Tzar’s and Duke’s, which led
to the Russian Revolution. Katherine I
had 15,000 dresses and changed them 7 to 8 times a day. Learned a lot about the Romanov’s, Rasputin,
and Pushkin. Also about the struggles
young families have today, medical care problems, and that young people are so
involved in trying to make ends meet that they have little interest in
politics. At Hermitage we saw original
DaVinci, Raphael, and Rembrandt paintings and sculpture. Rode on a hydrofoil to St. Petershof and had
a good bowl of borscht.
Russians have fancy ships called hydrofoils...
but ugly houses.
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