Our tour of Russia via Grand Circle Travel tour began in late August, 2007. I used for the first time a Sony Handycam video and digital camera. The video part went well, but I lost about 200 single, digital pictures of the trip, beginning in Moscow through Kitzi Island, meaning that most of the following digital pictures were taken from palaces and museums in St. Petersburg. The following is a video comprising the digital pictures I took on the second half of the tour. All the remaining sections of this travel blog are the videos I took on the tour and captured the sights and sounds of Moscow, ending with our short stay in Helsinki Finland before we flew back to Los Angeles.
There is Russian music attached to the video clip of the nearly 200 single digital pictures I was able to take on the second half of the trip. The videos were taken to record the comments of the local tour guides. So the pictures you see in the video collage below will be amplified as you view the videos below.
In particular, Yusopov Palace is the famous and historical house where Rasputin was killed and dumped into the nearby river. Catherine's Palace and The Hermitage have a tremendous source of paintings and collections of clothing and coaches and art objects once owned by The Czar's. This trip and the comments of the trip guides made many reference to the changes in the former Soviet Russia in the last 15 years and we were very surprised at the amount of and reference to the former Czarist rulers of Russia beginning with Peter and Catherine the Great.
Many of the priceless art and historical objects in St. Petersburg were hidden during WW II where the city of St. Petersburg was under siege for some three years with a loss of lives amount to well over one million residents.
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