Russia - Engineering An Empire
Russia - Engineering An Empire
#1Russia - Engineering An Empire
Posted: 11/20/06 at 9:05pm
On The History Channel right now!
Fabulous!
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#1re: Russia - Engineering An Empire
Posted: 11/20/06 at 9:08pm
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#2re: Russia - Engineering An Empire
Posted: 11/20/06 at 9:14pm
Me there!
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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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Posted: 11/20/06 at 9:18pmGlebb, who's the hottie in the second picture?
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#4re: Russia - Engineering An Empire
Posted: 11/20/06 at 11:48pmwe were JUST talking about how great it would be to go there and see CUP OF RUSSIA :)
RIP glebby <3
#5re: Russia - Engineering An Empire
Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:39am
We were watching too! Excellent show.
We've been to St. Petersberg, all over the Winter Palace (which is now the Hermitage)...
...as well as out to Peterhof, the Tsar's summer palace.
Incredible!
Such amazing history, and to think how recent it was (in the grand scheme of things)!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Posted: 11/21/06 at 9:54am
The last Tsarevitch was born at Peterhof!
Did you also do Pavlovsk in Tsarskoe Selo/Pushkin? 
The Alexandrinski Dvoryets is in Pushkin too.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:09am
Just a day-trip out to Peterhof (the palace and those incredible gardens!!)
The first day we spent entirely in the city of St. Petersberg and toured the Hermitage (formerly the Winter Palace), had lunch at the Astor Hotel in the center of town, then visited many other sites in the city along the Neva, including the Church of the Spilled Blood...
St. Petersberg is now a fascinating combination of ultimate decadence and decay. You can see the grandeur that it once was... the ruin that it fell into... and the restoration going on now. And it's all there in one place.
Perhaps the most fascinating of all the European cities we've visited.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:44am
The Moika Palace in Petersburg.
Pavlova danced for the Yusupov Family in this theatre in their Petersburg Palace. This is the Palace where Rasputin was murdered.
I loved Saint Petersburg and Moscow but would really love to explore the whole country - Kiev, Crimea, Alapeyevsk, Tobolsk, Ekaterinburg and on.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:49amRoad trip!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:11am
I didn't know Rasputin was murdered in a theater!
Was it during a show?
#11re: Russia - Engineering An Empire
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:14am
joey, the theater is IN the palace where he was murdered
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
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