exhaustedly

On Wednesday we visited the Museum of Political History on the Petrograd Side. This is housed in a building where Lenin installed himself between April and July 1917. Its most famous exhibit is a recreation of Lenin's office there.
I have to admit to being a little bored by the museum in general - much of it consists of documents and photographs about various figures which have been reproduced, with more detail and context, in books. But there are some very interesting exhibits, and the collection of materials relating to 'everyday life' (from an example of the kind of leather jackets revolutionaries wore in the early 20s to a recretion of a 1980s living room with a figure sitting reading the critical journal 'Ogonyok') were well worth the visit.
We have nearly exhausted ourselves with sightseeing, although we have seen only a fraction of the city's attractions - and have as yet no plans for the weekend except for some badly needed revision of Russian grammar, which is currently causing us endless problems. (As RL said the other day, we are now getting to the stage with the Russian where our eyes are being opened to how much we do not know. This kind of Socratic ignorance is proving something of a dent to confidence.. but we are getting there). In term of sightseeing, I am still desperate to go and see what remains of the Bosheviks' "Museum of Atheism "... more on that later.
Swan lake was good, except for a great deal of flash photography, and lots of clapping at the wrong time - both of which seemed to be the responsibility of the inordinate number of French people in the audience. On that, no comment.

On a happy note, I found a DVD of one of my favourite Russian films (Alexei Balabanov's 'Brother') in a supermarket for 100 roubles (2 quid), which was very nice.