Saint Petersburg (2019)
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Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
Monument to Tsar Alexander II, killed on this spot in 1881.
Grand Church of the Winter Palace
Designed by Francesco Rastrelli and consecrated in 1763.
Magnificent entrance to the Winter Palace
Interior of Saint Isaac's Cathedral
Contains over 100kg of gold leaf and 14 types of marble.
Centrepiece of the Smolny Convent.
Chosen by Vladimir Lenin as Bolshevik headquarters during the October Revolution.
Saint Nicholas Naval Cathedral
Closely associated with the Russian Navy, serving as its main shrine until the Russian Revolution.
General Staff Building || Saint Petersburg
The mirrored arch commemorates the Russian victory over Napoleonic France in the Patriotic War of 1812.
Ornately designed Saint Petersburg metro station.
Lining the entrance to Peterhof, the 'Russian Versailles'
Facing the Gulf of Finland.
Showing the fountains of the Lower Gardens, including the Grand Cascade.
Church and tree are framed between snow and sky.
Looking towards Peterhof with stormy skies.
The station used to have a large mosaic of Stalin, which was covered up in 1961.
The palace during the day
Stark modern memorial to the war fought between the USSR and Finland, 1939-40.