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.
Jordan Staircase
Magnificent entrance to the Winter Palace
Interior of Saint Isaac's Cathedral
Contains over 100kg of gold leaf and 14 types of marble.
Smolny Cathedral
Centrepiece of the Smolny Convent.
Lenin at the Smolny Institute
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.
Winter Palace at night
General Staff Building || Saint Petersburg
The mirrored arch commemorates the Russian victory over Napoleonic France in the Patriotic War of 1812.
Avtovo metro station
Ornately designed Saint Petersburg metro station.
Winter trees
Lining the entrance to Peterhof, the 'Russian Versailles'
View from Peterhof
Facing the Gulf of Finland.
View back towards Peterhof
Showing the fountains of the Lower Gardens, including the Grand Cascade.
Church of the Grand Palace
Church and tree are framed between snow and sky.
Fontan Mezheumnyy
Looking towards Peterhof with stormy skies.
Narvskaya metro station
The station used to have a large mosaic of Stalin, which was covered up in 1961.
Winter Palace
The palace during the day
Winter War Memorial, Helsinki
Stark modern memorial to the war fought between the USSR and Finland, 1939-40.
