These electric tram-buses are all over St. Petersburg, and the place is laced with overhead wires. Like the cars, these things don't get a wash until it rains. Some are formerly red, others formerly blue or green, and a few are formerly pink. They're always heaving with people, arms and heads pressed against the windows. I stuck to the underground.

Across from the Kunstkammer

From across the water

This is where people would leave for execution or Siberia.

"Cellebrities"  included Dostoyevsky, Trotsky and Lenin's brother

Actually, a great location and a friendly place, though it does look like a cement pie. There's a market and an underground station, and the Nevsky Monastery is across the street. I met Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui and Borodin (among others) in the graveyard.