Elaborate - a word that St Petersburg's Hermitage museum epitomises. Intricate and rich in detail - involving many carefully arranged parts - complicated in design...
Look up and you see the chandeliers, almost lost among the rich detail of the ceilings, walls and galleries above. Look down and you see incredible parquetry floors and intricate mosaics - and that is before you even start on the amazing display in the galleries where you can stand within centimetres of masterworks from past centuries. To explore the Hermitage in detail would take weeks, we had just one day but it was an amazing place.
