After lunch, we had our included shore excursion, St Petersburg Panoramic Tour. It was a bit odd to take this orientation tour as our last activity in the city.
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| There are huge apartment blocks near the port, perhaps these are from the 1970s |
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| Perhaps apartment blocks from the 1980s |
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| Храм Успе́ния Пресвято́й Богоро́дицы/ Church of the Assumption of Mary (1895) was closed by the Soviets, and in 1956 was made into an ice rink; in 1991 it was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church |
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| Памятник Ломоносову/Monument (1986, by Valentin Sveshnikov and Boris Petrov) to Mikhail Lomonosov, an 18C polymath who is considered to be the "Father of Russian Science" |
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| View of the Зимний дворец/Winter Palace south across the Neva River |
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| Neva River angler (KSS) |
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| Петропавловская крепость/Peter & Paul Fortress (1706-1740, by Domenico Trezzini as the founding of St Petersburg by Peter the Great), north across the Neva River (KSS) |
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| Posing in front of the Hermitage Museum complex (KSS) |
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| Ростральная колонна/Rostral Column (1811, by Jean-Francois Thomas de Thomon), a victory column topped by a gas torch (KSS) |
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| Statue representing the Neva River |
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| An official souvenir vendor |
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| An unofficial souvenir vendor |
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| Mobile toilet (KSS) |
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| Hydrofoil headed to Peterhof (KSS) |
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| Passing behind Peter & Paul Fortress with the spire of Петропавловский собор/Sts Peter & Paul Cathedral (KSS) |
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| Военно-исторический музей/Military History Museum (1849-1860, by Pyotr Tamansky) |
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| Obelisk (1975) at the place of executions of the Decembrists in 1826 |
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| Sts Peter & Paul Cathedral (1712-1733, by Domenico Trezzini) with a 123 m/404' gilded spire |
The story is that the spire was completed first in order to test the foundation, and from this spire Peter the Great was able to oversee the construction of both the cathedral and the fortress. The cathedral houses the remains of most of the Russian tsars and their wives.
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| View east from Troitskiy Bridge (1897-1903, by Paul Bodin) |
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| Троицкий Мост/Troitskiy/Trinity Bridge obelisk |
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| Statue (1801, by Andrey Voronikhin and Mikhail Kozlovskiy) of Alexander Suvorovu, Russian military commander who helped drive the French out of Italy in 1799 |
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| Lampposts on 1-Y Sadovyy Most/Bridge |
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| View of Михайловский замок/Mikhailovsky/Saint Michael's Palace (1797-1801, by Vincenzo Brenna and Vasili Bazhenov), which was surrounded by canals by Tsar Paul I, but it did not protect him from being assassinated in 1801 |
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| Музей камня/Museum of Art Stone in a former chapel (1907-1908, by Alfred Parland) |
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| Церковь Спас на Крови/Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood (1883, by Alfred Parland in Russian Revival style), was a memorial church to Alexander II who was assassinated on this spot in 1881 |
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| Very elegant face-in-hole board for a photo op |
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| Portrait artist at work; notice how the dad gets his daughter to sit still |
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| 2018 FIFA Fan Fest venue, a place where fans could watch the soccer matches live on a big screen |
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| A coffee-mobile (KSS) |
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| View south from Panteleymonovskiy Most/Bridge up the Fontanka River (KSS) |
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| View north from Panteleymonovskiy Most/Bridge down the Fontanka River |
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| Большой Санкт-Петербургский государственный цирк/ The Great St Petersburg State Circus (1877, by Vasily Kenel for the Ciniselli Circus) was the first brick-built circus in Russia, and the first without interior supporting pillars (KSS) |
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| Аничков мост/Anichkov Bridge (1841-1842) with one of four Horse Tamers (1849-1850, by Pyotr Klodt) (KSS) |
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| Another of the Horse Tamers sculptures |
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