St. Petersburg, First Impressions

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Here is what i first saw in Peter...(more to come later)

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Photos

Kazan Cathedral
this is the first thing in St. Pete that I saw in the daylight after what seemed like years in the airport and airplanes

st. isaac's cathedral
this i first saw when i was lost by myself and didn't have a map in my first week in peter. it made me happy. incidently it is the third largest single-domed cathedral in the world.

Spas na Krovi
here is spas na krovi (translation-savior on the blood) which was built on the place where tsar alexander 2 was killed. it is absolutely amazing

spas again
here is a close view of the cupolas

inside spas
this is what it looks like inside, all the images look painted, but are actually tile mosaics

liza in spas
liza!!! we took a tour of the inside, which was all in russian, and between the two of us we understood about 17 words, o but that was our first week, i think now we would understand like 30 at least

St. nikolai cathedral
this is another of the many cathedrals in peter that we happened upon after our Dostoevsky walk

the nose
for anyone who knows who gogol is, we saw the nose while on the Dostoevsky walking tour

Alexander Nevsky Lavra
this was at the A.N. Monastery, the cemetery has a bunch of really famous people buried there

Dostoevsky
this is where dostoevsky is buried. yay for russian literature!

Tchaikovsky!
This is Tchaikovsky's tombstone (памятник)

cemetery
snow had just fallen, it looked so perfect.