{"id":8789,"date":"2005-08-10T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:41:29","slug":"how-could-i-have-missed-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2005\/08\/10\/how-could-i-have-missed-st-petersburg\/","title":{"rendered":"How could I have missed St. Petersburg? and Helsinki?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reminiscences 2025<\/p>\n

From the Baltic countries we sailed to St. Petersburg.\u00a0 Where memory serves twenty years later, the blur is of palaces and museums that I would see again.\u00a0 But never enough.\u00a0 St. Petersburg is full of the old (but not the oldest) \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>and some of the richest sites in Russia.\u00a0 The sumptuous palaces which serve as reminders of wealth beyond dreams; the Summer Palaces which now houses the Hermitage Museum.\u00a0 That world-class edifice with \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>world-class holdings, initially the private collection of the Romanovs, added to by confiscation from wealthy Russians.\u00a0 Two days was enough to skim the surface–this was, after all–one of those pompous pretentious capitals (17 \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>something to 1920s?), though much was destroyed during the seige in World War II (and rebuilt).\u00a0 We saw, from my pictures, the standards.\u00a0 We did make it out to the Peterhof, happily.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Helsinki I remember as cool and raining.\u00a0 \u00a0Appropriately, we heard Sibelius Finlandia, \"\"<\/a> composed while Finland was part of Russia.\u00a0 The brief visit downtown showcased Scandinavian design and some wonderful shops. And the magnificent Evangelical Lutheran Helsinki Cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reminiscences 2025 From the Baltic countries we sailed to St. Petersburg.\u00a0 Where memory serves twenty years later, the blur is of palaces and museums that I would see again.\u00a0 But never enough.\u00a0 St. Petersburg is full of the old (but not the oldest) and some of the richest sites in Russia.\u00a0 The sumptuous palaces which … Continue reading “How could I have missed St. Petersburg? and Helsinki?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-baltic-countries-our-first-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}