St. Petersburg, Church of the Saviour of Spilled Blood *

View from atop St. Isaac's, St. Petersburg *

This is the type of picture you get when you ask a pedestrian to snap a shot: plenty of foreground, head off the statue and a little spec of me *

so much for the statue *

My St. Petersburg SERVAS host, Elena, with her cat *

Petrodvorets Grand Palace, where I met the obnoxious American tourist *

The city officials may have removed his name but Lenin is still in the residents' hearts *

SS Peter & Paul Cathedral, Petrodvorets *

Petrodvorets Grand Cascade *