I love the Russian way of doing things! For most museums, churches, etc. there are two prices. The Russian price, and the non-Russian price. Obviously, the non-Russian price is more, sometimes 20 times more. However, students can get into the Hermitage (the Russian version of the Louvre, but about 4 times bigger and waaaaay more [...]
This is an excerpt from one of the pocket St. Petersburg guides:
A “troitsa” is a threesome and not to be confused with “troikas”, those horsedrawn sled carriages that used to romp around parks in the snow and in Tolstoy novels. Troitsa comes from the same root, the Russian word “tri”, meaning three. The original troitsa [...]
This is Kaliningrad airport. All of it. It’s too bad you can’t see all of the women dressed in their 4 inch heels with their miniskirts, despite the freezing weather.
