The Hermitage was amazing. So was the Peterhof (summer palace) and the Yusupov Palace, where Rasputin was poisoned. We also ate beef stroganoff in the restaurant at the Stroganoff Palace. St Petersburg, as you know, has countless palaces. Although we were there 9 full days, we barely scratched the surface. I wish we had toured the Catherine Palace and whichever one has the Amber Room.
Here are things we did: took trams and metro, toured the Dostoyevsky apt, visited Pushkin's apt, took a bus tour of the city, walked around the Peter and Paul fortress, saw tombs of Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, the Romanovs, joined a canal tour, ate some really good food, spent a day at Peterhof, explored the Hermitage, walked up and down Nevsky Prospect, etc..
We were pretty tired after three weeks in Moscow, a pretty amazing city itself. Moscow is not as easy to figure out as St. Pete. Was more challenging.
- e-mail to friend in 2020
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