Spending two days in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July 2018.

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This is a ceramic 'oven' to heat the room.
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The Amber Room. The walls are lined with a mosaic of flatish amber stones. We were only allowed to take photos from the threshold, so I can't show you the detail. It's amazing the number of different colors that amber comes in!
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This room isn't really curved. It looks that way because this is a panaramic photo. It's also very dim, so a bit blury.
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The gift shop for Catherine Palace has lots of amber jewelry!
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Some of the Catherine Palace from outside.
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Some of the gardens surrounding the Catherine Palace.
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An outbuilding of the Catherine Palace.
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This statue just reminded me of the kind of person Trump wants to be - a forceful presence with large hands!
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???????? ????????: this is where we had lunch.
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Each talble of 8 had two bottles of wine and a bottle of vodka.
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Musicians entertained us while we ate.
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Borsch and vodka - just two of the many courses we had!
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After lunch, we went on a riverboad to cruise the canals.
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Amber items for sale in one of the many souvenir shops.
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