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The State Hermitage Museum
Interior of the Hermitage
The Church on the Spilled Blood
Russian Folk Entertainment
We landed in St Petersburg and had to wait 2.5 hours to get through customs. We took NCL tours here because you need an expensive Russian Visa to tour on your own. Our first stop was the Hermitage, which was established as a museum in 1764 when Catherine II made a major purchase of works of art from Western European masters. They say if you spent one minute at each work of art, it would take over 5 years (24 hr/day) to see the entire museum. Huge and awesome don’t do justice to describe it. After lunch we visited the Church on the Spilled Blood. There just could not be a more decorative church in the world! Inside there is not a single painting - the walls are almost entirely covered with mosaics. After dinner we attended a Folklore Dance Performance. The singing and dancing were outstanding - a very entertaining performance.
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