Woke up Sunday in the M Hotel, a place the girls chose right off of Nevsky Prospekt in the city center. lI'd bought passes to the Hermitage museum online earlier....you are advised to do this because the regular ticket queues get really oppressive otherwise. I took some pictures of this line that I will post at a later date. I brought the wrong cord for my camera and tablet on this little trip. Took a bunch of hermitage photos too. The place is impossible to imagine....for me, the 19th and20th century European art collection defies imagination. Monet, Cezanne, Matisse collections are amazing.Seems like they have most of Gauguin'sTahitian phase.The architecture is just over the top, marble and tile everywhere, ceilings, doors, floors are decorated lavishly....carving, painting, decorative detail everywhere. The Russian royalty collected, bought, impounded so many beautiful things..Czars collected, communists appropriated private collections, and there is of course some Nazi stuff, stolen by the Reich and then grabbed by the Russians. The place is so huge it would take weeks to see half of it. We are there for 5-6 hours. Laura went back on Tuesday for a few more hours.Pictures to follow.. We made arrangements to meet up with my friend Stepan's friend Dmitri on Monday for some sightseeing.
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