Bettas Living With Tetras

Russia and Scandinavia - the fifth episode


St. Petersburg

This is the city more waiting, as if it were to go to Rome to Russia.
We begin the rounds on the morning of a summer at least ungenerous. Fog and some cool off-season does not make very enjoyable day.
Beyond the specific descriptions of the guide, I try to capture the spirit of the Great Mother Russia whose inhabitants are so proud. The buildings, although beautiful outside, no damage, as a whole, an impression as a fairy in Prague. Nor can I understand the constant atmosphere of Strauss waltzes in Vienna. The juxtaposition of marvelous wonders that is here in Rome is more dilute and homogeneous. Maybe Florence or Paris may look like vague. Russia is the end of Europe, the extreme eastern boundary, the spur which separates us from Asia. St. Petersburg is Finnish, Scandinavian, French, Italian and Russian. The suffix -burg also makes it a bit 'Germanic, Dutch for the accuracy, since its previous names (Petrograd and Leningrad) were provisional and the suffixes a bit' too Russian ".
Like all the capitals that are respected, a great river, really huge, the cross repeatedly. The giant Neva is crossed even by hydrofoil. It was the crossroads of great trade and the protagonist of the most significant events in modern history: what city has sacrificed eight hundred thousand of its inhabitants during the German siege of the last war?
Here young people are the protagonists of the city. Many are, you can see them walking everywhere. It is from here that started the October Revolution?

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If some pride in Russia consisted in Vole surprise the visitor at all costs, the Hermitage is the essence of spectacular beauty and boundless Russia. Despite a visit to Bersagliera, always in a hurry, I mean, half a day in this museum is a drop in a sea of \u200b\u200bbeautiful things to see. Maybe not even a museum, but it is something divine in quantity and quality of the wonders on display. The visit concludes Faberge jewelry especially the apotheosis of beauty, boundless magnificence. Never seen so many and so beautiful precious stones, whose light bathes the eye to overflowing in an ecstasy of the senses worthy of more powerful drugs.
is hard to imagine the army of workers, engineers, architects, artists of all disciplines to work to build this immensity, the comings and goings of the masterpieces purchased worldwide, the accommodation in the rooms. Perhaps no person can know everything about the Hermitage, even studying there for life. It is for this reason that Russian girls and superbly graceful gait? They know their history, the magnificence of the Great Mother of the host. Its beauty reflects the reality that surrounds them. Or vice versa. It matters little, because this will be supplanted by Russia and enriched cafona who thinks the more money they saved to the wonders on the shore of the Neva.
The change is already in place and train some of the rich and ostentatious partying in front of the tourist bus from the windows sealed in not dark enough to filter the neo-capitalist Russian disconcerting.
I wonder what does the Great Mother ...