August 29Today we packed up at the hotel and spent the day in Peter again. It was an incredibly beautiful day! Blue skies, warm, perfect. A group of us went to see the Эрмитаж (hermitage) - the must-see sight of St. Petersburg. I got in free with my student discount, but if you want to take pictures of some of the things, you have to pay extra. So, unfortunately, you will not be seeing any original photos from inside the hermitage here.
The hermitage was the royal palace in Peter. Now it is a sort of art and cultural-his
torical museum, one of the oldest and largest in the world. You get to walk through the rooms and see, apart from the breathtaking ceilings, walls, floors, some of the royal things, artifacts from different countries, full-body armor and weapons, and tons of paintings by famous artists like Kandinsky, Picasso, Monet, Debussy, Rousseau, etc. I had never heard of the hermitage before, and I never expected to see so many famous paintings there. It was quite an experience.
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