The Best and The Missed

With this being our last night in St. Petersburg before boarding the o'night train to Moscow I thought I'd nominate my highlights as well as the things I missed.

The Best in no real order
1. The Anna Akhmatova Museum (a real sombre sense of the struggle of the thirties)
2. The Hermitage (Pieter Bruegel the Younger, El Greco, Picasso, the State Rooms)
3. Madame Butterfly at the Marinsky
4. Seeing the ice thundering down the Neva (this only happened the day before we left when we'd given up all hope)
5. Church of the Spilled Blood - breathtaking mosaics
6. The Siege of Leningrad walking tour - esp. the memorial
7. Catching a train everyday from a station called Mayakovkya that features a mosaic by the author of "Cloud in Trousers"
8. The flat where Raskolnikov would have lived if he was real
9. The Bronze Horseman
10. Getting to see a band at Fish Fabrique

The Missed
The Museum of Political History (we did the Aurora, which was crap, instead)
Pushkin
Peterhof (it's winter)
The Gardens (ditto)
White Nights (ditto)
Novgorod (we just kind of ran out of time)

The Neva starting to freeze