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| Reflections can be found everywhere, not only in the polished instruments of musicians outside the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg, but also in the windows behind the musicians, as my husband found on this tour (I didn't go) during our August cruise in Russia with Viking River Cruises. |
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| My intrepid photographer, whose humility is exceeded only by his modesty, likes nothing more than to take pictures of himself reflected in everything from chandeliers to mud puddles. The lower mirror, above, shows his feet in the blue slipperettes tourists wear to protect palace floors. |
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| Thus protected from, and polished by foreign feet, the palace floors reflect the light. |
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| © Photos by Richard Schear, August, 2011 |
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| The chess set below is in the glass case above. |
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| Catherine the Great, who called Catherine I's original palace "whipped cream architecture", had the Scottish architect Charles Cameron design three Neoclassical buildings for her, including the Cameron Gallery, above, which still houses a collection of bronze statuary. |
