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Originally Posted by Merika
Maybe we are related. Catherine the Great came from my mother's home town of Darmstadt, Germany!
Seriously.....Russia is one of the VERY few countries I still want to visit and have actually spent quite a bit of time learning their history.
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I was lucky enough to go there in 1992, just after the fall of the USSR so it still had that sort of cold soviet feel about it (it was in winter too so it added to the effect) which was at the same time spooky but interesting. Because of the time I was also lucky enough to see things before commercialism stepped in and all the streets got plastered with McDonalds and Coke adds :roll: . Its a beautiful place, highly recommend St.Petersburg and the Winter Palace.