Catherine's Palace

Catherine Palace we get the quick entry through the back again bypassing all lines. We have to put on brown booties over our shoes to protect the floors. This is a large blue palace with gold domes sitting on 1400 acres of gardens and parklands. The only place we are not allowed to take pictures is the "Amber Room" . After walking through the parklands we get back to our private van.

Our fashionable booties to protect their floors.

View from outside.

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Hermitage Museum

Victoria was our guide from T.J. Tours. I highly recommend them. More Pics from Hermitage Museum with my big camera. 

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Hermitage Museum

And then there's the Hermitage Museum. What can I say..... it is amazing. We went on a day it was closed so there was limited groups in there. Everywhere you turned it was awe inspiring.
The State Hermitage  is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. 

Our Tickets

It has been open to the public since 1852.
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St. Petersburg Russia

Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas

The golden Baroque spires and domes of St. Nicholas' Cathedral (known locally as the Sailors' Cathedral) rises among the trees at the bottom of Ulitsa Glinki.

St. Petersburg Day 1

We took a 2 day tour with TJ's tours in St. Petersburg and covered a lot of ground. I didn't know what to expect before I got there, but this ended up being our favorite of the Baltic cities. Up early in the morning we went to the St. Petersburg Palace Square before anyone was there. And then off to the subway. Down the steepest escalator I have ever been on.  It was unbelievably clean, no graffiti and no rats.

The St Petersburg’s Palace Square is one of the major landmarks of Russia. The Palace Square is also considered as one of Eur-Asia’s beautiful and unique squares. The Palace Square is built on the southern side of the city between in 1754-1762, a new building was added to the square in 1819-1829 by Carlo Rossi.

St. Petersburg Palace Square

Interesting Facts about the Subway.

With the typical platform lying 187 feet below ground, St. Petersburg boasts the deepest subway system in the world. Admiralteyskaya is 282 feet deep. For some perspective, this is about a fifth of the height of the Empire State Building. And it is almost a hundred feet lower than New York City’s deepest subway station.

Down to the Subway
The station looks brand new. The walls are made of spotless, faux marble panels and shiny gold mosaics, which tell Petersburg history. One shows Peter the Great opening the Admiralty building in 1704. This building was the former headquarters of the Russian Navy.