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Cathedrals and Churches   Saint Petersburg

Cathedrals and Churches, Saint Petersburg

 269 Reviews  After having a good look inside, it was then time to walk the whole way around the outside. The construction of the church was almost entirely funded by the Imperial family and thousands of private... 

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Hermitage   Saint Petersburg

Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

 265 Reviews  The Hermitage is a State Museum, said to be one of the world's largest and most prestigious museums in the World. There are over 3 million items in its collection, from Impressionist masterpieces to... 

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St.Peter and St.Paul's Fortress   Saint Petersburg

St.Peter and St.Paul's Fortress, Saint Petersburg

 117 Reviews  For some reason, the statue of Peter the Great is one of the most controversial monuments to be erected in St. Petersburg in the last 10 years. An American sculptor of Russian descent created the... 

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Palaces   Saint Petersburg

Palaces, Saint Petersburg

 135 Reviews  Located on the southern corner of Nevsky Prospekt and the Fontanka river, is the pink Belozersky Palace. This was the last private palace constructed on this multi-palatial street and was completed... 

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St.Isaac's Cathedral   Saint Petersburg

St.Isaac's Cathedral, Saint Petersburg

 69 Reviews  St. Isaac's Cathedral was originally St. Petersburgs main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, and still is an amazing sight to see, especially the big... 

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Rivers and Canals   Saint Petersburg

Rivers and Canals, Saint Petersburg

 90 Reviews  Summary..... Seeing a lovely Orthodox Church was a nice finish to a wonderful canal tour. I have told you about as much as I can, there were more sights but I can't find out what they were. It was a... 

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Museums   Saint Petersburg

Museums, Saint Petersburg

 147 Reviews  Interested in Russia art from the 12th century to the mid-20th century, then you had better come to this Museum, second only to the famous Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. We were on tour, so didn't go... 

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Nevsky Avenue   Saint Petersburg

Nevsky Avenue, Saint Petersburg

 77 Reviews  What we call the main street! Nevsky Prospect is St. Petersburg’s main avenue and one of the best-known streets in Russia. We were driven through here so we could see the historical center of the... 

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Theaters and Concert Halls   Saint Petersburg

Theaters and Concert Halls, Saint Petersburg

 82 Reviews  The next important building we see on the Cruise, is the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, situated in a beautiful building near the Fontanka River. The building was constructed between... 

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Monuments   Saint Petersburg

Monuments, Saint Petersburg

 72 Reviews  The Alexander Column is a monument to the Russian military victory in the war with Napoleon. The coloumn is named after Emperor Alexander I, who ruled Russia between 1801 and 1825 (during the... 

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Other Attractions   Saint Petersburg

Other Attractions, Saint Petersburg

 105 Reviews  We are now on the Moika River and viewing another massive Palace located close to the beautiful Mariinsky Theatre. Yusupov Palace is only one of two surviving St. Petersburg residences of the wealthy... 

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City Environs   Saint Petersburg

City Environs, Saint Petersburg

 83 Reviews  Driving in St. Petersburg looked to be a nightmare to us, but to our Russian driver, he just joined the mad house, cutting people off, beeping hooter, and squeezing tight inbetween cars. I was glad I... 

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Bridges   Saint Petersburg

Bridges, Saint Petersburg

 36 Reviews  It was a pity the water was a little rough, as I have seen lovely reflection photos of the Lomonosov Bridge. The Bridge, designed by a frenchman, is one of 7 bascule bridges built across the Fontanka... 

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Parks and Squares   Saint Petersburg

Parks and Squares, Saint Petersburg

 70 Reviews  The huge Palace Square forms the heart of historical St. Petersburg. Probably remembered by Russians for the massacre of 'Bloody Sunday' on January 22, 1905, when Tsarist troops fired on unarmed... 

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Czar's Village   Saint Petersburg

Czar's Village, Saint Petersburg

 14 Reviews  A very nice place, even I can say gorgeous place. You can put in your plan one day for sure, if you want without a hurry see all charms of this place.Visit it in late spring our summer when the all... 

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Admiralty   Saint Petersburg

Admiralty, Saint Petersburg

 30 Reviews  This huge complex of buildings can be seen from the three main thoroughfares of the city. You can see this tower with the old spire crowned with a weather vane shaped like a caravelle. The spire... 

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Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

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The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (in Russian Spas Na Krovi) is one of the main Russian Orthodox churches of St. Petersburg.It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, its official name.The name refers to the blood of the assassinated Alexander II of Russia, who was mortally wounded on that site on 1881.Designed by Alfred Parland in the style of 16th and 17th-century Russian churches, the Church of the Resurrection provides a stark (some would say jarring) contrast to its surroundings of Baroque, Classical and Modernist architecture.The Church is prominently situated along the Griboedov Canal. In the west, outside is the picture of Jesus on cross. As our guide said, it is one of the few picture, where Jesus is on the cross with open eyes …I like this colourful church and suggest to visit it, when you visit the...

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Saint Isaac's Cathedral

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Saint Isaac's Cathedral in is the largest cathedral in the city and was the largest church in Russia when it was built (101.5 meters high). It was dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great who had been born on the feast day of that saint.Long before this lavishly decorated building was opened to the public in 1858, St. Isaacs' already had a most unusual history.Peter the Great first commissioned a wooden church on the meadow at the side of the Admiralty in St. Petersburg during 1710. Peter named it after a Byzantine monk St. Isaac of Dalmatia, as he was born on St. Isaac's feast day according to the Orthodox calendar. However, this first church was too close to the river bank and was soon destroyed in floods.… Most of the external construction was complete by 1842, then another sixteen years were spent decorating the interior before the grand opening in...

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Walking in the streets

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For the last years I wanted to visit St.Petersburg and see how the city has changed after my last visit (it was before break-up of Soviet Union) unfortunately I didn't have chance to do so and this August I finally realised my dream. I went there with my sister for the long weekend. My dream was just walk in streets and breathe this air which reminds me about history, art and music. My favorite musician is from this city ;-)Luckily the city center is quite compact and easy to walk through. The weather was not very welcoming but still walking on the Nevskiy prospekt, crossing all canals, watching the buildings was very enjoyable.

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Drawn the bridges at night

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Today, there are 342 bridges over canals and rivers of various sizes, styles and constructions, built at different periods. Some of them are small pedestrian bridges, such as Bank and Lion bridges, others are huge transport arteries such as almost one kilometer long Alexander Nevsky Bridge. There are about 800 small bridges across hundreds of smaller ponds and lakes in public parks and gardens, and over 100 bridges in various ports, marinas, yacht clubs and private industries. The total number of bridges in St. Petersburg is over a thousand. The nearly 100-meter-wide Blue Bridge, claimed to be the widest in the world, spans the Moyka River.Peter the Great was designing the city as another Amsterdam and Venice, with canals instead of streets and citizens skillful in sailing. A familiar view of St. Petersburg is a drawbridge across the Neva. Every night during the navigation period from...

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Hermitage

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The State Hermitage Museum is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, the main one being the Winter Palace which used to be the official residence of the Russian Tsars. The Hermitage holds the Guinness World Record as having the world's largest collection of paintings.There were represented Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Rodin, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse and more others.There are several more collections - the Russian imperial regalia, an assortment of Faberge jewellery, and the largest existing collection of ancient gold from Eastern Europe and Western Asia.Open:Tuesdays - Saturdays10.30 - 17.00Sundays10.30 - 16.00Closed MondaysTicket windows...

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funny public toilets ;)

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In my trip to St. Petersburg I were met the funny public toilets. From the time of USSR (Soviet Union) I remember, that the toilet culture in Russia isn't the excellent but I really was surprised, when I was saw the toilet-buses beside the Palace Square, near the Winter Palace (Hermitage).The Russia doesn't stop to amaze me ... In here some examples on my photos.

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The Bronze Horseman (literally "The Copper Horseman") is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great by Étienne Maurice Falconet. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg, in much the same way that the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of New York City.The statue's pedestal is the enormous Thunder Stone, sometimes claimed to be the largest stone ever moved by man.The Monument to Nicholas I is a bronze equestrian monument of Nicholas I of Russia on St Isaac's Square (in front of Saint Isaac's Cathedral) . Unveiled on June 25, 1859, the statue was a technical wonder of its time; it spans six meters and was the first equestrian statue in the world with merely two support points (the rear hoofs of the horse).Smolny Cathedral of Resurrection (Voskresensky), located on Ploschad Rastrelli, on the bank of the River Neva in Saint Petersburg, Russia, consists of a Cathedral (sobor) and a...

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Palace Square

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Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Bridge leading to Vasilievsky Island, is the central city square of St Petersburg and of the former Russian Empire. It was the setting of many events of world-wide significance, including the Bloody Sunday in 1905 and the October Revolution of 1917.The earliest and most celebrated building on the square is the baroque white-and-azure Winter Palace of Russian tsars (1754-62), which gave the square its name.The opposite, southern side of the square was designed in the shape of an arc by George von Velten in the late 18th century. These plans were executed half a century later, when Alexander I of Russia envisaged the square as a vast monument to the Russian victory over Napoleon and commissioned Carlo Rossi to design the bow-shaped Empire-style building of the General Staff (1819-21), which centers on a double triumphal arch crowned...

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Nevsky Prospekt - the Nevsky Avenue

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Nevsky Prospekt is the main street in the city of St Petersburg. Planned by Peter the Great as beginning the road to Novgorod and Moscow, the avenue runs from the Admiralty to the Moscow Railway Station and, after making a turn at Vosstaniya Square, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The chief sights include the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, the Art Nouveau Bookhouse (Dom Knigi), half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great, an enormous 18th-century shopping mall, a mid-19th-century department store, Grand Hotel Europe, the Russian National Library, and the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues. The Nevsky today functions as the main thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg. The majority of the city's shopping and nightlife, as well as the most expensive apartments, are located on or right off of the Nevsky Prospekt.The Prospekt has...

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Kazan Cathedral

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Kazan Cathedral is a name of several Russian churches dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, an icon that the Russian Orthodox Church probably venerates the most. The latter church was modelled by Andrey Voronikhin after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It was constructed between 1801 and 1811.Some art historians assert that Emperor Paul intended to build a similar church on the other side of the Nevsky that would mirror the Kazan Cathedral but his plans failed to materialize.The cathedral's interior, with its numerous columns, echoes a ponderous outward colonnade and reminds one of a sumptuous palatial hall (69 metres in length, 62 metres in height). The interior features numerous sculptures and icons executed by the best Russian artists of the day. A wrought iron grille, separating the cathedral from a small square behind, is sometimes cited as one of the finest ever created.In Kazan Cathedral...

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Q:  Does the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg still exist? If not, does the building still exist, and if so, where is it located?... 

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A: Google has all sorts of info. It does still exist in the form of a building that houses the city government. Address is 1 Smolny Passage. You can look up the sites for... 

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