2777 Trip Tale: St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg
After a wonderful visit to the Hermitage Museum and its art shop on Tuesday morning July 18, we ate lunch at a nice restaurant--fish soup, salad, and salmon with slivered almonds. Then our G-6 (three couples from the USA) headed for St. Isaac's Cathedral with our guide, Veronika. Really, it is almost more than the eye and mind can take in during such a brief period. St. Isaac's was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand and is one of the most impressive buildings in St. Petersburg. Definitely see this if you are planning a trip. The communists closed it as a house of worship (can hold 14,0000) and reopened it as a museum, but it is a church again. What look like paintings are actually very detailed mosaics, and the columns are made of malachite and lapis lazuli. Although I don't think our guide was particularly observant, she always referred to the cathedrals as being "of our faith," probably not considering the Baptists and Pentecostals who are evangelizing there authentically Russian.![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6052/245/320/St.%20Isaac%27s%20Cathedral.1.jpg)
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We returned to our hotel about 4:30, rested, had dinner at 7 p.m., and then attended a folk dance performance in the hotel's theater. A very full day indeed!
2 comments:
Norma, thanks for stopping by...bad time in a way...since I am kind of down. Thanks for your comments. I appreciated them a whole lot..Sandy
Wow-- how gorgeous!!! I've not been here in forever-- but, I'm glad I got to see these pictures. :)
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