I was referring to the OP and their article… Not your pictures of architecture and art. I’ve traveled extensively - mostly to places that make stuff for us to import - and have similarly been struck by sites I’ve seen. Never been there though.Are you mumbling about me again, cg? lol I went all over the net looking for St. Pete's basilica and other Russian architecture in St. Petersburgh and you accuse me of reading Newsmax. Doh. I visited the Hermitage with my late husband in or around 2006. I can't get the beauty of the place out of my head, not ever. In the summer it is one of the most beautifully gardened places in the world next to Holland's amazing tulip season that would blow a certified aesthetic person's mind away. Not sure a leftist dullard would appreciate such beauty, though.