| The Winter Palace from Dvortsovaya square. Inside the Hermitage is one of the world's largest and most impressive art collections. Theres nothing else quite like it anywhere, and it would take *months* to look around the whole collection properly. Not to mention the prettiness of the rooms inside too. *squeak* |
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| Peter the Great founded his capital city in wild marshland in 1703. Not sure what his horse was famous for, but they're both here as a nice statue. |
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| Pretty fountains in front of the admiralty. |
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| Oh look, it's a copy of St Basils. The "Church of the Saviour on the Blood" is built over the exact spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated. Which may explain the silly name, but doesn't explain why it looks like a cake. Russian churches look so edible. Mmmmmmmm |
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| Yay for random art nouveau! Spotted this delight on the front of a Parfumerie on Nevskiy Prospekt. I'd not expected to find anything like this so far east. But then St Petersburg is very European, not Russian, so here we have it. Eeeeeeeeeeeeee. Made me very happy. |
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| Petersburg has pretty canals too! |
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| A lot of the architecture in Petersburg is fascinating - this is Dom Knigi, a shop on Nevskiy Prospekt. |
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| Putting the underground of every other country to shame, the metro stations of Petersburg (like Moscow) are magnificent underground palaces, crafted out of marble with intricate carvings and exquisite lamps. The trains run ever 90 seconds, are dirt cheap and I've never seen a breakdown yet. A true wonder of the modern world. |
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| Pavlovsk park is a *huuuuuuuuuuuge* park just outside Petersburg. A wide expanse of trees and rivers dotted with odd statues and curious structures. We got utterly lost for about 2 hours wandering around. Eeeeeeep. Still, it's very pretty. |
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