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That's the chapel roof - when the Baroque landed in Russia it went native and started sprouting onion domes - how Russian is that ...!
Happy memories, I've spent many happy days there with Russian friends. The little town is delightful, and just over the road from the palace there's the grammar school where the poet Pushkin studied, complete with a lot of his school work on display. The town was renamed in his memory.
You've framed this so that we see the character of the park as well as the palace. Now I want to go back...
Happy memories, I've spent many happy days there with Russian friends. The little town is delightful, and just over the road from the palace there's the grammar school where the poet Pushkin studied, complete with a lot of his school work on display. The town was renamed in his memory.
You've framed this so that we see the character of the park as well as the palace. Now I want to go back...
Quote:That's the chapel roof - when the Baroque landed in Russia it went native and started sprouting onion domes - how Russian is that ...!
Happy memories, I've spent many happy days there with Russian friends. The little town is delightful, and just over the road from the palace there's the grammar school where the poet Pushkin studied, complete with a lot of his school work on display. The town was renamed in his memory.
You've framed this so that we see the character of the park as well as the palace. Now I want to go back...
Hi Moira,
Our russian guide told us a lot about the town of and the poet Pushkin as we were walking to the palace from where the mini bus dropped us, just beside the Pushkin monument. It is a wonderful place and the fact that the Germans burnt it almost to the ground doesn't detract from the wonderful rebuilding of the palace. Truly some awesome architecture around this vast city and the people are friendly as well.
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We were involved in school exchanges with Art and Music schools in St Petersburg for around 20 years, it was Leningrad for most of that time... The Art School had a full ceramics studio with a kiln that was used at weekends by two craftsmen who produced blue and white gzhel tiles for the restoration of the palaces. Lovely guys, passionate about what they did. Think back to the huge tiled stoves in the corners of the main rooms, that was Misha and Slava's work...
Nice well composed image...The border wouldn't be my preference its not my image 
Quote:Nice well composed image...The border wouldn't be my preference its not my image
I cropped the foreground out as it was some hedging and when I had done this it was almost square so I just popped the 6x6 film frame round it. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but I quite like the effect.
Thanks for the comment Kim
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