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Byrnzie
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Anyone here from Russia, or has anyone been there?
I'll be passing through next year - Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, and St. Petersburg.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I'll be passing through next year - Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, and St. Petersburg.
I'm really looking forward to it.
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does work take you there? good luck
Nah, not work. Just travel. I'm taking the train from Beijing to England. Will stop at Irkutsk & Lake Baikal, Ekaterinburg, and St. Petersburg. The more I read about these places the more I can't wait to visit them.
You've lost me. What chick in Pennsylvannia? :think:
If I'm not mistaken it's someone who created a thread requesting postcards from anywhere and everywhere.
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Ah hah! I'll see what I can do.
I remember in Helsinki once I bought a postcard which said 'Welcome to Helsinki' on it, and it had a picture of a beach in Brazil - Finnish humour.
I've always wanted to do the trans-siberian and/or the silk route! Lucky, lucky bugger! Which class are you planning to travel? You MUST take loads of photos/videos, etc. Bore the lot of us when we meet up for drinks!
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I don't know, but the whole trip including hotels and staying 2 nights in Ulaan Baator, 1 night at Lake Baikal, 2 nights in Ekaterinburg, 3 nights in St Petersburg, finishing in Helsinki, comes to £1,500.
Just outside Ekaterinburg there's a place where they've worked out the dividing line between Europe and Asia and you can stand with one foot in Europe and one foot in Asia:
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Cheers. I'm gonna be bypassing Moscow though.
The architecture in St. Petersburg looks amazing. I can't wait to visit the Hermitage museum - I'm gonna spend a whole day in there. And also Dostoyevsky's old haunts and the places where he lived, the Dostoyevsky museum, and his grave. Gogol's apartment too.
There's loads of incredible looking churches and palaces dotted around too. I'm gonna be like a kid in a sweet shop.
The Hermitage Museum:
Church on The Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg:
Tsarskoe selo Palace:
The Amber Room - Tsarskoe selo Palace. This room is made entirely from amber:
take a good look
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St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum Holds Tomcat Day
by Love Meow on Mar 31st, 2010
Cats have been the heroes at the world-famous St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in Russia. Having felines as the protectors against rodents goes back 200 years for the museum.
Last Saturday Russia celebrated Tomcat day, their “professional” holiday for the 50 cat staff of the Hermitage.
“The museum’s attic will exhibit paintings and photos by professional painters as well as schoolchildren and students, who were inspired by the image of the cat.
Cats have always been a significant part of the museum’s life. They first settled down in the halls of the Hermitage when the museum was founded by Catherine the Great in the 18th Century, and were immediately granted the status of “Hermitage guards”.
At present, the estimated 50 cats of the Hermitage, each of them having its own passport with a picture, help the staff to do away with rodents.” – RT.com
“They execute so-called preventative activities so that rats and mice will stay away or are kept at a minimum,” museum worker Marie Khaltunen tells National Geographic through a translator. Though tourists are not allowed into the cats’ living quarters, “All the museum visitors can see them in the summer,” Khaltunen adds. “Generally they walk on the square and on the embankment, and also they come out into the big yard.” – Peoplepets.com
The musem has started the “Want to Go Home” campaign to help some of the stray cats to find a permanent home.
“Their number plummeted during the deadly Leningrad Blockade. After the end of WW2, the Hermitage took care of the cats, whose vital duty is helping the museum get rid of those gnawing beasts, rats and mice.
In fact, their number is strictly specified. No more than fifty cats and kittens can stay at the Hermitage, although more cats always seem to turn up.”
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