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July 13, 2002
In the morning we walked past the monument to Taras Shchevchenko, one of the greatest writers of the Ukraine near the hotel entrance and had a minitour of the surrounding area. |
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Is this the Scotia Bank? | ||||||||||||||
Later we were picked up by a representative of Global Quest and taken to our ship the "Zosima Shashkov" a.k.a. "Peter the Great." | ||||||||||||||
We spent a few hours getting acquainted and were then off for a walk through a nearby park. | ||||||||||||||
To finish the day we had a lecture on Russian lacquer boxes which are made of black-lacquered paper-maché and decorated with intricate designs based on Russian folklore or history. | ||||||||||||||
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