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Lighting was very dim, so many photos are a bit blury.
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The gift shop is inside, in one corner.
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They sell lots of glitzy items made to look like Faberge Eggs.
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This is the back side of the cathedral.
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St. Petersburg has lots of canals with boats full of tourists. We were to take a canal boat trip the next day.
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Inside the restaurant where we had dinner.
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This is the headquarters building for Russian oil company Gazprom. At 87 stories, it is the tallest building in Russia and Europe, and the 13th tallest in the world.
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The lights on the St. Petersburg stadium change color every few seconds.
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Lots of Russian Dolls for sale in all the souvenir shops!
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My favorite Russian Dolls were of Putin and Trump!
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On our second day in St. Petersburg, we were entertained by a small brass band while waiting to get into Catherine Palace. We heard them play several pieces; it was very enjoyable!
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The outside of the Catherine Palace, the summer residence of the tsars. Catherine II (Catherine the Great) had the gold on the collumns painted over, but there's still lots of bling on the inside!
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There's gold leaf under the paint on these figures.
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Not all the gold was painted over.
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We put on booties to help preserve the floor.
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