Trinity Chapel
Troitskaya Square.
Day Five Morning.
St. Petersburg Russia.
Loannovskiy
Bridge Into St Peter And Pauls Fort.
As If This
Needs A Caption !!
Souvenir Stalls
Beside The Dvortsoviy Bridge
The Great Naval
Museum Beside The Dvortsoviy Bridge
St.Petersburg
orVenice of the North as it is otherwise known was our next port of call.
This was to be our base for the best part of the next 48 hours. Steeped in
history and culture we had five excursions arranged to hopefully help us get
to see a large area of St. Petersburg. We sailed into the port under darkness
at with the fog closing in, an eary feeling when you have no idea what to
expect at daybreak.We moored up at 06:54 and even though foggy later in the
day the temperature stil got upto 19 Deg C
Next Canal Along, Where
Palaces Start.
Our First View
Of The Canals Of St Petersburg.
Waiting To Clear Immigration
With The Band Playing.
Yusupov Palace,
(YellowBuilding).
To Walk Or Not To Walk,That
Is The Question.
The Mariinsky Opera
and Ballet Theater.
Peter The Great,
Ostrovsky Square.
St Peter And Paul Fortress
In The Fog.
Mark In Prospekt
Dobrolybova.
Buildings Lining One
Of The Many Canals.
The Cruiser Aurora.
The crew of the Cruiser Aurora sounded
the start of the Bolshevik Revolution by letting off one of the main guns
on deck.They had mutinied against their officers and threatened to shell
the Winter Palace. The nearly bloodless turnover that followedgave Lenin
undisputed control of Russia. During the civil war that followed the capital
was moved back to the more central city of Moscow and has since remained
there. St petersburg was named Leningrad after his death in 1924. This was
renamed St.Petersburg again in 1991.
The View Directly Opposite
The Church.
The Cathedral of Our
Lady of Kazan.
The Old Stone Bridge
On The Way Back to The Ship For Dinner.
The tall onion style
domes on the towers and the intimate mosaic pictures on the church make it
stand out against the sky line for many miles.
The Church Of The Saviour
On The Spilled Blood, this marks the place where Czar Alexander II was murdered.The
Czar Liberator had freed the serfs and was taking heroic measures to modernise
and liberalise Russia. But one faction of terorists still decided to kill
him by bombing his carriage, and the church was built in his memory. The ruined
carriage can still be seen at St.Catherines Palace.
Opposite The Church
Of The Spilt Blood, An Odd Building Near The Market.
A Russion Pidgeonov,
Or Is It A Pidgeon Rushinov?
We Never Did Find Out
The Name Of This Statue.
The Guilty Couple Outside
The Winter Palace.
The State Hermitage
Museum. Right:- Another View From Palace Square.
Some Of The Shops In
Nevsky Prospekt, The Main Street In St Petersburg.
In the distance though
barely visible,the Eternal Flame, a memorial to those who dies in the wars.
Dinner on board The
Sea Princess ready for an afternoon excursion around the canals by boat.
A View Off The Other
Side Of The Ship Whilst Moored Up At St Petersburg. People Fishing Now The
Suns Out.
A View Of The Docks
From The Horizon Food Court On The Sea Princess.
St Petersburg Universities
Over The River..
Looking Down The Canal
Towards The Church From Nevsky Prospekt.
Peter The Great Statue Alongside The
River.
