Saint Petersburg (1)

Here people say that there only 60 days of sunshine a year in Saint Petersburg, so we should consider ourselves extremely lucky to get blue sky for our city tour:

- Saint Isaac

- the Admiralty, on the banks of the Neva River:

 

- souvenirs shops

- the famous Ermitage museum, which occupies the former Winter Palace, and the surrounding buildings

- the Russian cruiser Aurora, which Aurora operated in the Baltic Sea performing patrols and shore bombardment tasks during World War I. At the end of 1916, she was moved to Petrograd (the renamed Saint Petersburg) for a major repair. The city was brimming with revolutionary ferment and part of her crew joined the 1917 February Revolution. A revolutionary committee was created on the ship. Most of the crew joined the Bolsheviks, who were preparing for a Communist revolution. At 9.45 p.m on 25 October 1917 a blank shot from her forecastle gun signaled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace, which was to be the beginning of the October Revolution.

- a delicatessen on the Nevski Perspective

- the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, built on the site where Emperor Alexander II was fatally wounded in March 1881. It contains over 7500 square meters of mosaics.

- back to the Ermitage, but seen from the Palace Square this time

Today is the longest day of the year, and here it means that the suns sets at 23:30, and will rise at 03:00, so you need to stay up very late to see Saint Petersburg by night...

Every night, the bridge is opened at 01:15