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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 Ameri…
- 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 …
- 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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