Album sixteen
(Translated by D. Mosesian)
We've got news - Sergei Tikhomirov offered
to supply gradually additional comments, more academic in character than mine, to some of
the pictures .
Various historic facts, dates, names.
Myself, and you too, perhaps, will correct him from time to time. :)
To look at the comments press the button " " near the picture.
Some additional work for me though, but ..
OK. The weather is fine today :-)
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Vladimirskii Cathedral near the subway station
"Vladimirskaia". Not far from Tuchkov bridge there is another Vladimirskii
Cathedral (album six).
On the map it's called prince-Vladimirskii, although on the sign on it it's not mentioned
Resemblance is not limited to the title. Even the style of towers is very similar.
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| Close-up of the belfry of the Cathedral , and the Cathedral proper |
| Kuznetchnyi market |
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Among the multitude of almost identical buildings on Marata
street where I was walking this one looked interesting. |
| Gorokhovaia (previously Dzerzhinskogo) street. Behind the
building - Fontanka river.
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Quiet little street near Fontanka. Interesting square -
surrounded on all sides by virtually windowless buildings. |
| Five corners. On far right - Vladimirskii Cathedral
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And this is already on the other side of Nevskii prospect.
Mikhailovskii Castle. Looks like they started its restoration from the staircase. :)
Everything else still looks terrible.
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| Mikhailovskii Garden and Russian museum, hidden behind the
trees. |
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Mikhailovskii Garden again . Pavilion. |
| The same pavilion, but this time as seen from the other
side of the Moika river. |
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Nizhne-Lebiazhii (Lower-Swan) bridge across Moika. On the
background - not yet Summer, but already not quite winter, Garden :) |
| The lamps on that bridge, restored since last fall. . The
guild is shining under the spring sun. |
| Classic view. Piter and Paul fortress, picture taken from
Troitskii (Trinity) bridge.
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On the border of light and darkness... A wall of Peter
and Paul fortress.
A little farther along the wall a few people are taking the sun under rather strong
wind and air temperature of +2 C. I didn't take the picture to save their nerves and my
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| Ice motion .. The couples, crowded on the Palace bridge,
are watching the ice cakes floating slowly towards the Gulf. |
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They say that a few years ago something was installed up
the river to brake the ice. Since then there is no real ice motion anymore, with large
banking ice cakes.. |
| It looks like the girl has decided to join the ice :) |
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