Санкт-Петербург

Санкт-Петербург
Date(s): May 14-16, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 55 of 55 Total. 55 Visits.

1 Maria Sharapova on Nevsky Prospekt	2 Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, modelled after St. Peter's Basilica	3 Moyka River from Nevsky Prospekt	4 Saint Isaac's Cathedral, ordered by Tsar Alexander I
5	6 a door of Saint Isaac's	7 Statue of Peter the Great in Decembrist Square	8 Admiralty
9 looking across the Neva to Peter and Paul Fortress - established by Peter the Great in 1703 to defend the city against the Swedes	10 Kunstkammer Museum on Vasilyevsky Island	11 Winter Palace, home of the Hermitage	12 courtyard of Winter Palace
13 Malachite Room	14	15 Small Spanish Skylight Room	16 Michelangelo's "Crouching Boy"
17 da Vinci's "Madonna Litta"	18 Cezanne's "Jas de Bouffan"	19 Van Gogh's "Thatched Cottages"	20 Gauguin's "La Nativité"
21 Pissarro's "Boulevard Montmartre"	22 Monet's "Le Grand Quai au Havre"	23 Renoir's "Marée basse à Yport"	24 Vernet's "Invalid Handing a Petition to Napoleon at the Parade in the Court of the Tuileries Palace"
25 Matisse's "Conversation" (I read he was an adult when he painted this)	26 Palace Square	27 Picasso's "Dance of the Veils"	28 from 18th century China
29 Standing Vishnu from 11th century Pala	30 Winter Canal	31 Marble Palace	32 Summer Garden, closed for improvements
33 Summer Palace of Peter the Great, on bank of Fontanka River	34 eternal flame in Field of Mars, Trinity Bridge over the Neva in the background	35 Church on Spilled Blood, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881	36
37 me in front of Church on Spilled Blood	38 statue on Anichkov Bridge, the first bridge across the Fontanka	39 my hole in the wall hotel on Nevsky Prospekt	40 Naval Museum on Vasilyevsky Island
41 looking back across the Neva at the Hermitage	42 Rostral Column	43 the other Rostral Column	44 Theban Sphinx - there are two of them looking at each other
45 St. Andrew's Cathedral on Vasilyevsky Island	46 Finland Railway Station - went in the morning to book my ticket for 3:25 train	47 Cruiser Aurora - battled the Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War	48 St. Peter's Gate - main entrance to Peter and Paul Fortress
49 Neva Gate - the fortress ended up being used to house political prisoners and they were taken out this gate to their death or "living death"	50 Peter and Paul Cathedral	51 St. Nicholas' Cathedral	52 St. Isaac's Cathedral, looking along the Moyka
53 Yusupov Palace - Rasputin was murdered here	54 Sadovaya Metro Station I think	55 Allegro train to Helsinki - went 200 km/h

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