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The inlaid floors were as impressive as everything else.
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The next photo shows the painting on the ceiling in more detail.
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This is looking straight up at the ceiling shown in the previous photo.
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Another very impressive floor.
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This was my favorite ceiling!
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We can't have the bases of the columns just plain, can we?
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The outside of one building of the Hermitage Museum.
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In the late afternoon, we visited Saint Isaac's Cathedral, the largest Russian Orthodox cathedral in St. Petersburg.
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It is the fourth largest cathedral in the world.
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Inside, it was almost as impressive as the tsar's palaces. There was gold everywhere.
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