O Peter's work, I love you so!
I love your stateliness and strength,
The Neva's soft majestic flow
The granite bordering her length…
Alexander Pushkin
Saint-Petersburg is a special and unique city. It sounds ordinary however it is true. The city differs from other cities, especially from Moscow.
The architecture is different, not typical for Russia.
An idea to build a city on bogs, on regularly flooded area was absolutely insane. Nevertheless overcoming enormous difficulties this idea was brilliantly realised.
Besides Saint-Petersburg is the most northern megapolis in the world.
It is a beer capital of Russia where the most popular brands such as 'Baltika', 'Nevskoye', 'Bochkarev', 'Stepan Razin' are produced.
It is a native city of 'bandit-police' serials, a specific cultural phenomenon of the 90-s years of the twentieth century.
It is a motherland of almost all modern Russian government.
It is 'Piter's' rock.
t is a city where people say 'ton' but not 'piece' as throughout Russia; they also say 'receiver', 'shaverma' and 'loaf' but not 'mobile', 'shaurma' and 'baton'.
You cannot get to know the city for one time even if you are ready to spend here several weeks. The city is worth returning in different periods of life, in a different mood, with friends or alone.
The Bronze Horseman
The Admiralty
The Palace Square, the Hermitage
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral
Manezh. Konnogvardeisky Boulevard
Nevsky Avenue
Bolshaya Mosrskaya street
Kazan Cathedral
Spas-na-Krovi (Saviour-on-the-Blood)
Russian Museum
Gostiny Dvor
Sadovaya street
Marsovo pole (Mars field)
Letniy sad (Summer Garden)
Strelka Vassiliyevskogo Ostrova (the Arrow of Saint Basil Island)
Peter and Paul Fortress
Mariinsky Theatre and Conservatory
Sennaya Square
Laura of Alexander Nevsky
Smolny Cathedral
Church of Simeon and Anna
Petergof
Pavlovsk
Tsarskoye Selo
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