RUSSIA, HERE WE COME
bericrhoads@gmail.comfacebook.com/eric.rhoads RUSSIAwas the centerpiece of the first art cruise Fine Art Connoisseur ever organized (through the Baltic Sea in 2010). It was amazing, even though our stay in Russia entailed only three days in St. Petersburg. Since then, those who took that cruise, and many who did not, have asked us to return to Russia. Editor-in-Chief Peter Trippi and I are therefore thrilled that Fine Art Connoisseur’s next adventure abroad — this coming September 10–20 — will be in Russia. But this time it will not be a cruise at all. There is so much culture in Moscow and St. Petersburg that we have decided to do a land-based trip, with five days in each city and a high-speed train between. The elephant in the room is that Russia is very much a…