Next we drove down Невский проспект/Nevsky Avenue, the famous shopping street of St Petersburg.
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| Дом Братья Елисеевы/House of the Yeliseyevsky Brothers (1902-1903, by Gavriil Baranovsky in Art Nouveau style), a grocery store (KSS) |
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| Гостиный двор/Gostinyy dvor/shopping center (1757-1785, by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe) with 2-story arcades |
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| Здание Городской Думы С Башней/City Hall with Tower (1799–1804, by Giacomo Ferrari) topped by a spire that was part of 19C optical telegraph system 800 miles to Warsaw that used mirrors to transmit Morse code |
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| St Petersburg Suvorov Military School cadets (KSS) |
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| Гранд Отель Европа/Grand Hotel Europe (1875, renovated in 1910s in Art Nouveau style) is a 5-star hotel that was featured in the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye, but not filmed here |
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| Entrance to the Grand Hotel Europe (KSS) |
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| Русский музей/Russian Museum (1819-1825, by Carlo Rossi for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich as his palace in Neo-Classical style) houses Russian art and sculpture collections (KSS) |
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| Statue (1957, by Mikhail Anikushin) of Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer, whose great-grandfather was of African origin and was kidnapped as a child to end up in the court of Peter the Great, who adopted and raised him, resulting in his descendants being members of Russian nobility |
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| Cupola of the former Дом компании «Зингер»/ Russian Singer Headquarters (1904, by Pavel Suzor in Art Nouveau style) topped by a glass globe sculpture by Estonian Amandus Adamson (KSS) |
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| Starbucks (KSS) |
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| Дом Мертенса/Merten Trade House (1912, by Marian Lalewicz) was a fur trading concern, now a Zara store |
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| Soccer Team Zenit team gear store (KSS) |
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| Строгановский дворец/Stroganov Palace (1753-1754, by Francesco Rastrelli) was built for Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov, who was rumored to have asked his chef for a simple meal and the result was beef stroganoff |
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| Statue (1859, by Piotr Klodt) of Nicholas I, with statues of his wife and daughters representing the virtues of Faith, Strength, Wisdom, and Justice |
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| Исаакиевский собор/St Isaac's Cathedral (1818-1858, by Auguste de Montferrand in Neo-Classical style) is the largest orthodox basilica in the world |
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| The motor coach was parked on Синий Мост/Blue Bridge (1842-1844) is a 97.3 m/319' wide bridge over the Moyka River |
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| The Blue Bridge (KSS) |
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| Мариинский театр/Mariinsky Theater (1860, by Alberto Cavos) is the premier opera and ballet theater in St Petersburg |
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| Downspouts appear to be part of the building design |
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| A pair of pusher tugboats named марал/Siberian Stag and зубр/Bison |
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| Lenin plaque at Leytenanta Shmidta embankment 17; apparently Vladimir Lenin spoke at a Bolshevik Party general meeting here to report on the April 7th All Russia Conference (KSS) |
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| Finally caught a photo of a submarine, the B-585 Sankt-Peterburg |
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| LVS86 Tram #5050 |
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| KTM23 Tram |
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| Gas station in St Petersburg: 92 octane gas is about $2.34/gallon |
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| A school still has a hammer and sickle (KSS) |
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| Enclose your own balcony projects (KSS) |
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| The Cyrillic letters in the lower left spell "McDonalds" |
Back on the Viking Star for dinner as we left St Petersburg.
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| Sunset past an island fortification in the Gulf of Finland |
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| The white is the curved edge of the gate that can pivot across the water... |
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| ...to meet the curved gate from the other side to block the channel |
Next: Helsinki 1.
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