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Way to Russia Talk Lounge Forum Index -> St. Petersburg

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babie2th
Just Starting

Joined: 01 Jul 2009
Posts: 2

Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:10 pm Post subject: Gifts

Oh, and you DEFINITELY should pick up a tea set in St. Petersburg - they can be pricey, but my goodness the quality is great and comparatively the sets are incredibly inexpensive. A wonderful souvenir, I just carried my box on the plane instead of packing it.

gaijin
Lounge Lizard

Joined: 03 Oct 2007
Posts: 155

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:07 am Post subject:

You mean Japanese tea sets ? Yeah, but actually you can buy them in the West for the same price. If not I don't know what you mean. Can you specify a shop?

Peter80
Lounge Lizard

Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Posts: 97
Location: St-Petersburg

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject:

babie2th might be talking about something like this:

stanj
Frequent Guest

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 41
Location: St Petersburg Russia

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject:

Reply with quote

gaijin wrote:

You mean Japanese tea sets ? Yeah, but actually you can buy them in the West for the same price. If not I don't know what you mean. Can you specify a shop?

I doubt you can buy the Lomonsov Porcelain and cheaper than the factory here. Visit the Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain Factory and on the 4th floor the Hermitage has its collection of fine porcelain as a Hermitage extension museum. Mikhail Lomonosov was Russia's Leonardo Di Vinci, founder of Moscow University, formalized Russian grammar, was a multifaceted scientist, mathamatician, linguist, poet, chemist, inventor etc...
Other good gifts related to St Petersburg would be the photo books of the city and museums/palaces. They are stunning and make great gifts.
Other items closely related to the city would be original art from one of the several artist co-ops, or fashion furs.

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