Today (20/7) is our last day in Russia, and we returned to The Hermitage museum because we had missed going to the Gold Rooms, which Steven had so much interest in visiting. This certainly was a highlight, sorry no cameras allowed in the Gold room so I have no photos. But take my work for it, there was a lot of gold, in many different forms and combined with diamonds and emeralds. A lot of the gold was from Scythian burial mounds found in Siberia, but there was also a gold Aztec piece that had been owned by Mr Stroganoff.
We crossed town and visited the Aurora navy ship, which had a role in the Russian revolution so was on Stevens "to visit" list. The Aurora ship fired a blank shot to signal the start of the storming of the Winter Palace to arrest the provisional government.
And we returned to Finland on the new fast 'Allegro' train. Change of money and language, not to say that we learnt a lot of Russian, and we only know a few Finnish words.
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