St. Petersburg (2006)

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“Travel in St. Petersburg, Russia, back in 2006″

From St. Petersburg, Russia (2006), posted by Arlo Midgett on 10/31/2011 (192 items)

: Oksana’s niece and nephew, Lena and Andrey

: The view out our apartment window

: An interesting solution to the porta-potty problem. These buses have been retrofitte…

: Dinosaurs!

: Peter and Paul Cathedral

: A restaurant on the water

: Neptune

: The Hermitage across the water

: Palace Square

: First view inside the Hermitage

: The word “opulent” comes to mind

: Hall of Tapestries

: Small Throne Room

: The Armorial Hall

: This is actually made of wood (I think)

: I guess “baggy” was in, in 2006

: The Alexander Column

: I was BLOWN AWAY by the detail in this sculpture

: He carved the veins in the hand!

: Even the floors were works of art

: Just another vase

: Marble bust of Catherine the Great

: The Golden Drawing Room Wonder why they used that adjective…

: The Boudoir

: Oksana in the Boudoir

: Looking up

: The Malachite Room

: Chandelier

: Harp!

: Is it okay that I covet this library?

: Arrive early at the Hermitage, trust me.

: The Jordan Gallery

: The room is full because they wound the peacock clock

: Mosaic floor

: Marble columns in the Pavilion Hall

: Lena posing in the Raphael Loggias

: The Raphael Loggias

: Greek sculpture

: “Hey, no flashes in here!”

: Sarcophagus The Story of Hippolytus

: Jupiter

: Here: Kitty Kitty.

: Support

: Support columns

: Heavy lifting

: Support

: Winter Palace fountains

: Winter Palace gates

: Alexander Column again, with a sucker hole

: The Palace Square

: Kazan Cathedral

: St. Isaac’s Cathedral

: Singer Building

: On the canal

: Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: Painter

: Funky raven?

: Where Oksana’s brother has an apartment

: Oksana’s brother buzzing us in

: View from the apartment

: Sunset from the apartment

: Peter and Paul Cathedral with tree

: Looking up the Peter and Paul Cathedral

: Peter and Paul Cathedral

: Peter and Paul Cathedral, entrance

: Peter and Paul Cathedral

: 1905

: Raven taking flight

: Domes and Crosses

: Lena

: Andrey and Oksana

: Spot the UFO!

: The Upper Garden

: Dragon fountain

: Webbed hoofs?!

: Lena, Andrey, and Oksana at Petergoff

: It’s time to play a game called “Try to guess who has been photographed in America!”

: East Chapel

: East Chapel and gardens

: Golden Domes

: Back lit by the sun

: The Samson Fountain

: The Samsonovskiy-Morskoy canal

: All the way to the gulf of Finland

: Under the Grotto

: Lena and other tourists moments after getting splashed by the trick fountain

: Central fountain

: Samson fountain

: Stonework and shellwork in the grotto

: Must have a bladder the size of a battleship…

: The Great Cascade

: Rainbow

: The Great Cascade — all the fountains on the estate are gravity fed. Pretty amazing…

: Chess hill, dragon fountains

: Watching the other kids play Hard to see from this photo, but the fountains were con…

: Andrey

: Ducklings

: From the other end of the canal

: Golden Hill, Marli Cascade

: The Lower Gardens

: Mosque with a blue tiled dome

: Don’t. Just… don’t.

: Museum slippers!

: We visited a museum of torture. Destroyed my faith in humanity.

: The rack

: Peter and Paul Cathedral, behind the torture museum

: Oksana posing with the cathedral

: Oksana with the “hyperbolic” statue of Peter

: Back courtyard

: Oksana checking out an early rocket prototype

: Trubetskoy Bastion

: The Hermitage and St. Isaac’s Cathedral

: Peter and Paul Fortress entrance

: The River Neva

: He noticed me taking a picture from the bridge and waved

: Checking the map

: Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood behind the Field of Mars

: Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: St. Michael’s Castle

: Summer Palace door

: Making wishes with Chizhik-Pyzhik

: Chizhik-Pyzhik

: Chizhik-Pyzhik The first and only coin I threw landed right on the platform!

: Why, hello there, Scarlett

: Scientology!

: Griboedova Canal and the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: Griboedova Canal

: Tour boat on Griboedova Canal

: Griboedova Canal and the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: The Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood across the water

: Oksana posing in front of the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: Mosaic

: Icons

: Sun behind

: Front of the church

: Inside

: Looking up

: Chandelier

: Windows

: Oksana inside the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: tours inside

: Wall-sized mosaic

: closeup on wall-sized mosaic

: The Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: Wedding party

: Best gate ever

: Telephone call

: Learn to read Cyrillic: Baskin Robbins edition!

: Canal tour

: Passing by the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood

: One of the hundreds of bridges in St. Petersburg

: Painter (Like this, Karla Allwine?)

: She saw me taking a picture.

: Sheremetyev Palace

: Oksana on the canal tour

: Anitchkov Bridge

: Chillin on the canal tour

: Lomonosov Bridge

: Trinity Cathedral with a ton of scaffolding (1 month after we left, it caught fire an…

: St. Nicholas Cathedral

: Bridge decorations, lions

: Bridge decorations, Griffons

: Under the Kazan bridge

: Getting the shot

: “Okay, you can install your giant billboard… under one condition: No blocking my ba…

: Fountain synchronized to music

: Lenin statue in Moscovskaya Square

: The Pandus Ramp

: Catherine’s Palace

: I must have been chewing something…

: Waiting in line, tired of standing

: Inside Catherine’s Palace

: The Great Hall

: Wall decoration

: Picture Hall, with Dutch oven

: Catherine Park Gardens

: The Admiralty across the Great Pond

: Gondola

: Perched

: Catherine’s Palace Chapel

: Rickety St. Petersburg trolley

: Hydrofoils on the River Neva

: Restaurant

: Vladimirsky Cathedral

: Posing by the River Neva

: Peter and Paul Fortress

: The Hermitage from across the water

: Checking out the Tilingit display in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

: Stuff from home we never expected to see in Russia!

: Very interesting to see Tlingit hats and blankets that were hundreds of years old, ra…

: Old science-y stuff

: Even more amazing than the Tlingit stuff: We instantly recognized these ceremonial we…

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