St. Petersburg


Click for a larger version St. Isaac's Cathedral
Click for a larger version Hermitage Museum
Click for a larger version Tram-bus in front of the Hermitage

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.

Click for a larger version Embankment

Across from the Kunstkammer

Click for a larger version Embankment
Click for a larger version Looking backwards
Click for a larger version The Hermitage

From across the water

Click for a larger version Peter and Paul Cathedral
Click for a larger version Pier at Peter and Paul Fortress

This is where people would leave for execution or Siberia.

Click for a larger version Cell in the Peter and Paul Fortress - Trubetskoy Bastion

 

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

Click for a larger version My Cell at Hotel Moskva

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.