Inside the Palace

Inside the Winter Palace, as much as was the case at Peterhof, one finds awesome color everywhere. After your first entrance, you are wound through some passages until you are sent up the grand red staircase as you enter the sumptuous rooms above.

The ability to hear your guides is enhanced in some of these huge museums by the use of headphones, which allow each guest to hear his or her specific guide. As long as a person stays in range of the transmitter, there is a lot to learn and a lot to see. The next post will be in the gold, gilt room at Catherine's Winter Palace.