00000pri11.JPG.jpg Our Hotel in Sankt-Peterburg, Pribaltiyskaya. pri__4_.JPG The view view from my room at night pri__5_.JPG View from the second floor dining room of the Hotel Pribaltiyskaya PIC_0329.JPG Ploshchad Vosstaniya by night PIC_0330.JPG Ploshchad Vosstaniya by night PIC_0046.JPG Ss Peter and Paul Fortress, Osrtov Zayachiy, seen from Birzhevaya Ploshchad PIC_0048.JPG View from Birzhevaya Ploshchad over the frozen Neva to Troitskiy Most PIC_0050.JPG The Winter Palace seen from Birzhevaya Ploshchad PIC_0054.JPG View accross the Bolshaya Neva to Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya and the University Buildings. PIC_0069.JPG Buildings in Nikolskaya Ulitsa PIC_0095.JPG The Nakhimov Naval Academy, Petrovskaya Naberezhnaya PIC_0099.JPG View accross the Bolshaya Neva from Angliyskaya Naberezhnaia PIC_0091.JPG A rather bleak looking Shpalernaya Ulitsa PIC_0146.JPG Some of the chimnies which dominate the skyline here. PIC_0086.JPG Smolniy Cathedral PIC_0087.JPG Detail of a plaque depicting Lenin, Smolniy Gate. PIC_0089.JPG The Smolniy Institute PIC_0103.JPG The State Mint for Coinage, Ss. Peter and Paul Fortress PIC_0104.JPG Inside the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul. PIC_0114.JPG Inside the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul. PIC_0118.JPG Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul, the last resting place of the final generation of the Romanov dynasty. PIC_0121.JPG Fortress of Ss Peter and Paul, general view. PIC_0080.JPG War Memorial, Marsovo Pole (The fields of Mars) PIC_0081.JPG The Cathedral of Our Saviour on the Spilt Blood, as seen from Marsovo Pole PIC_0096.JPG The Cruiser Aurora, Permanently moored Outside the Nakhimov Acadamy as a monument to the Great October Socialist Revolution. PIC_0097.JPG The Breech of the Aurora's forecastle gun, which fired the shot which signalled the beginning of the Great October Socialist Revolution. PIC_0058.JPG St Isaak's Cathedral PIC_0060.JPG St Isaak's Cathedral, Detail PIC_0063.JPG Pyotr Klodt's 'Equestrian statue' of Nikolai I, Ploschad S-Isaak (St Isaac's Square.) PIC_0073.JPG Naval Cathedral of St. Nikolai. PIC_0074.JPG Cathedral of St. Nikolai, Belltower PIC_0307.JPG On Prospekt Nevskiy PIC_0310.JPG The Art Nouveau Singer Building, Prospekt Nevskiy PIC_0311.JPG Kazanskii Cathedral on Prospekt Nevskii designed by Voronikhin and built 1801-1811 PIC_0313.JPG Kanal Griboyedova from Prospekt Nevskiy PIC_0136.JPG.jpg The Nikolayevskiy Theatre, Ploshchad Truda, originally a palace designed by Andrey Stakenshneider. PIC_0332.JPG Moskovskiy Vokzal - Route map PIC_0333.JPG Moskovskiy Vokzal - Route map PIC_0331.JPG.jpg Moskovskiy Vokzal (Moscow Station)