Leningrad

St. Isaac's Cathedral

Leningrad residents reading the news

Soviet-style wall murals

Inside the Hermitage (Winter Palace)


Palace Square and the Alexander Column

Hermitage as seen from Palace Square

That's me in Palace Square

Plaque commemorating the October Revolution of 1917

Hermitage

Alexander Column

Cute little Russian girl in Palace Square

One of the canals of "Venice of the North"

Street scene

Entrance to Petrodvorets (Czar Peter the Great's modest villa outside of the city)

Closer look at the Grand Palace at Petrodvorets

Me and a statue

Garden behind Grand Palace (known as the "Russian Versailes")