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Holly on the Neva |
Ticket to the Hermitage |
Front of Winter Palace |
Ceiling inside Hermitage |
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Gold everywhere in the Hermitage |
Throne in the Hermitage |
Holly in front of a Matisse in the Hermitage |
Simon in front of a Kandinsky in the Hermitage |
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Beers on the Neva with Holly, Jan, Jen and Nate |
Dinner on the Neva, looking over at the Winter Palace and Hermitage |
Stuck in an enormous tropical storm, we took shelter in an entryway |
Crumbling grandeur |
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An overgrown shipyard |
For some reason, nobody has set up a restaurant in the basement of this place |
Alexandrevsky Palace, Pushkin |
Alexandrevsky Palace, Pushkin |
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Alexandrevsky Palace, Pushkin |
Alexandrevsky Palace, Pushkin |
Bridge at Alexandrevsky Palace, Pushkin |
Simon drinking a Nevskoya on a boat ride |
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Simon and Holly and the Church on Spilled Blood |
Church on Spilled Blood, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 |
Wonderful domes on Church on Spilled Blood |
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