| Outside of the Hermitage as seen on Millonnaya Street |
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| A close up of these absolutely amazing columns |
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| View on Millonnaya Street looking at the corner of the winter palace and across the courtyard of the palace is St Issac's Cathedral |
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| The courtyard of the Winter Palace |
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| The Winter Palace with the groups of little children coming to see the exhibits |
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| An ice palace built on the courtyard |
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| Oh, what these statues could tell us... |

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| The main Jordan stair case |
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| The stair case divides into two and this looking up the right half of the Jordon staircase |
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| Looking down the stair case... |
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| One of the amazing statues on the stair case |
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| One of the dozens magnificent doors in the palace and Hermitage |
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| One of the many chandeliers, it is huge |
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| Da Vinici |
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| A panel from the cieling in one of the hallways... |
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| The other Da Vinci |
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| This hallway is amazing, I love the kids looking up as they are taught of its history and meaning |
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| One panel of this amazing hall |
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| A few of the hundreds of vases and one of the typical hallways in the palace and Hermitage |
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| Reuben Paintings |
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| Part of the living quarters, one of the thrones |
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| This is the Hall of St George in the Winter Palace where I could feel the wedding of Nicholas and Alexandra, if you go there, can you feel it too? |
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| Chandelier in Hall of St George in the Winter Palace note the double headed eagle |
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| The throne in the Hall of St George in the Winter Palace |
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| Van Gogh |
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| The photograph is extremely poor, but the painting is amazing, you can see into her soul... |
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| The Gold Room wow |
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