Walkin ‘Bout The Revolution

With a museum every ten yards in St Petersburg, where do you start? My tip: the Aurora Cruiser museum. It’s free. You don’t have to put those blue plastic bags over your shoes or check-in your coat with some po-faced concierge. Just walk up the gangplank and enjoy. The Aurora really is a jolly little ship. Paint it red and yellow and you’d want it in the bath. In fact, it’s surprising it isn’t painted Soviet red and gold, because for years the Aurora was the icon of the Russian Revolution.

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