PHOTO: Underground Vaults at the Hermitage Museum Storage Facility, St. Petersburg
Some of the thousands of pieces of art housed in the climate controlled vaults of the Hermitage Museum Storage and research facility
PHOTO: General Staff Building of the Hermitge, St. Petersburg, Russia
General Staff Building of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
PHOTO: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Column and Hermitage Museum, seen through the arch of the General Staff Building of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia
PHOTO: Little Konushennaya Street, St. Petersburg, Russia
Little Konushennaya Street, one of several pedestrianized shopping streets in city center of St. Petersburg, Russia
The Cure for Everything – Russia’s White Birch Trees
Freezing rain splashed off the massive stone walls of Belozersky Monastery, pelted my face, and trickled down my neck. I pulled my hood closer and surveyed the leaden surroundings. On my left, the monastery loomed dense and gray, threatening to tip the earth. Ahead of me lay a gray corpse of a lake. The only … Read more
