Chapter 351: There is ordinariness, praise, forbearance, and grief.
After the meal, Zhang Feng walked to the way to the Winter Palace.
The Hermitage is probably the most famous place in St. Petersburg, and the most official name is the Hermitage Museum, which is one of the four major museums in the world.
The Hermitage was originally the private residence of Empress Catherine II. In 1764, Catherine II purchased 250 paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and others from Berlin and stored them in the newly built wing of the Hermitage, "Hermitage", from which the museum got its name.
At the entrance, Zhang Feng found some vendors selling cheap oil paintings, mostly ballet-themed ones.
The Hermitage is definitely a mecca for art and museum lovers, where the most cutting-edge art of all mankind is brought together, and there are audio guides in the representative exhibits.
Of course, as the Tsar's Palace, it is also a paradise for architecture lovers in its own right.
Afterwards, Zhang Feng calculated, in fact, he only stayed in the Winter Palace for three hours, in these three hours or so, if you want to appreciate the most precious artistic wealth of human beings, you can only be a dragonfly, if you really have time, it is really worth spending a day here under the guidance of the Audio Guide to walk into the stories behind these masters, and gradually you will find that behind the greatness there is ordinary, praise, forbearance, and sadness.
Walking out of the Winter Palace, the sunset was shining on the Neva River, but it was still blowing with the cold wind. Zhang Feng walked along Nevsky Prospect into a Soviet-style restaurant called "Ye". The restaurant is not crowded and focuses on meat.
It has to be said that the most stylish St. Petersburg is still at night.
When I woke up to the morning, it was still a cloudy and gloomy day. Zhang Feng walked to the metro station, crossed the heavy steel rails, and found a bus to Catherine Palace in Московская.
At this time, it was already late autumn around the Ye Palace, and in the distance of the view of the forest, there was a gorgeous and exquisite golden-domed blue palace.
Catherine Palace was originally a summer villa given by Peter I to his second wife, Empress Catherine, and later became the property of their daughter Elizabeth Petrovna as an inheritance.
In order to reflect the status of the royal domain, the area where the palace was located became known as Tsar Village or Tsarskoye Village after its completion. In 1937, in honor of Pushkin's childhood here, it was renamed "Pushkin Village".
The palace is exquisite**, the colors are fresh and soft, and it is filled with the feminine and coquettish charm. It can be said that the garden is full of poems, paintings everywhere, everywhere fluttering with intoxicating melodies, everywhere permeated with the fragrance of flowers and plants, the empress's voice and horses, arrogant and extravagant ** breath is still lewd in the whole garden.
Among the many exquisite and luxurious palaces in the Catherine Palace, there are hospitality and useful meals, but the most amazing thing for Zhang Feng is, of course, the Amber Palace.
Speaking of the Amber Palace, Zhang Feng also learned about the legendary story behind it.
In 1709, Frederick I, then King of Prussia, in order to emulate the luxurious life of the French Emperor Louis XIV, ordered the most famous architect in Prussia to build the "Amber Room", which was dazzling and magnificent, and was known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World". In 1716, King Wilhelm I of Prussia gave Peter the Great a face with more than 6 tons of amber and precious jewels, sparkling with everything from lemon yellow to golden red, all imaginable yellows, and the splendor was breathtaking.
During World War II, the house was looted and stolen by the Nazis. On the occasion of the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg (2003), Russian craftsmen restored the appearance of the time.
Of course, for people hundreds of years later, it is no longer possible to imagine the magic of the Amber Palace through obscure words, but when Zhang Feng stood in this small space, the golden and dazzling crystal clear light and shadow on the surrounding walls still made Zhang Feng breathtaking. As for the most real Amber Palace, perhaps the imaginary is always the most beautiful.
The weather was still cool and dark, and the Yegong Garden was large, with a large lake in the middle, surrounded by a yellowing jungle, and a few buildings dotted in the garden.
Today's Huangcun may have lost the tranquility of the Pushkin era, but Zhang Feng thinks that the imperial spirit must bring aura to this small town, and at the same time, it also brings the temperament of the nobility.
Back to St. Petersburg, back to Nevsky Prospect. After Zhang Feng simply ate "Hello", he waited for night to fall.
"Tonight, let me feel the charm and charm of this place. Zhang Feng said to the night.
On the Hermitage Square, Zhang Feng found several young people singing selflessly, and behind him were rows of onlookers.
Zhang Feng stood in the crowd, and every time the singer finished singing a song, the crowd behind him would burst into cheers, cheers and applause. People will approach at this time and throw some coins into their guitar bags.
In the night, Zhang Feng felt a little warm. Street art is so respected here, they may not make a living from it, they may just want to be expressed, they want to be recognized and respected, they want to be loved.
I don't want to compare, but on a night like this, I was moved by the young people of such a misunderstood country.
At this time, there are not many visitors to the Hermitage Square, and you can arbitrarily find an angle to record that moment.
Zhang Feng walked up to the Dvortsovy Most bridge, and St. Petersburg at night had more tenderness than during the day
The next day, it was early in the morning again, and the weather was gloomy. Wake up early and head to the summer palace.
Take the metro to Автово, where there is a bus directly to the summer palace.
Located in the forests on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, the Summer Palace was designed by Swiss Domenique Tregini as a suburban retreat for successive Russian tsars and an early building in St. Petersburg. In World War II, it was destroyed by German troops. Hitler, after the failure of his plans to capture the Astoria Hotel, intended to hold a New Year's victory celebration here, a move that angered the Soviet authorities. Between December 1941 and January 1942, Stalin ordered the palace to be blown up in order to stop the celebrations of the Germans. Restored after World War II.
The leaves in the garden of the summer palace have turned yellow, and you can find the ticket office through the upper garden. Zhang Feng bought tickets to enter the summer palace and the upper garden, and from the upper garden to the Gulf of Finland, and from the pier of the Gulf of Finland, Zhang Feng took the ferry back to St. Petersburg.
The fountain is probably the highlight of the summer palace, with statues of golden figures and splashes of water crowded with tourists. But Zhang Feng has to say that the huge landscape formed by the combination has not only become a beautiful and magnificent scenery in front of the summer palace, but also complements the royal temperament here.
Zhang Feng stood on the terrace in front of the summer palace and looked ahead, and found that the endless Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland were in the distance, which made Zhang Feng can't help but look into the distance and want to see a different scenery.