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Petersburg images

Bronze Horseman
Catherine II's statue of Peter I (the Great), at sunset.

Bronze Horseman
Catherine II's statue of Peter I, under snow.

Bronze Horseman, with view of the Strelka and the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Leningrad cigarettes depicting the Horseman. The Strelka
(Click here for background info.)

A Metro map.

Nevsky Prospekt, looking toward the (golden-spired) Admiralty. Nevsky Prospekt, II (B&W) Park Pobedy (Victory Park):
an aerial view of the war memorial.
Park Pobedy, II:
Close-up of war memorial.

City panorama (taken from Colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral by Kate Pickering) Art Nouveau on a Petersburg street.
Palaces:
Palace Square,
with the Hermitage (Winter Palace) and the
Alexander Column. (Click here for background info.)
Peterhof
Peter the Great's Summer Palace.
Cathedrals:
St Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievskii Sobor) Kazan Cathedral (Kazanskii Sobor) The Alexander Nevsky Lavra
(Click here for background info.)
Water and Bridges:
Maritime St. Petersburg A bridge during its nightly "open" phase The Moika Canal
A canal, glimpsed through a piece of bridge architecture The Neva Embankment (Strelka in background) A bridge with carved lions, winter view.

...and be sure to check out the Petersburg photo gallery and panoramas (Quicktime VR)
on the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC) website!


Petersburg texts

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (Vintage) Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the 19th Century," Reflections
Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman and Eugene Onegin (Book One) Alexander Blok, "The Scythians" and The Twelve
Blair Ruble, Leningrad (selections)  

 

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