I turned to gaze upon the resplendency of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, and I took about 100 more photos, because the weather was fabulous and picture perfect and I'm not sure when I will come back. I will return, but I'm not sure when.
We walked along the Griboyedov canal, and then up to Nevsky prospect, which was fast becoming one of the most familiar streets of St. Petersburg. It is quintessential St. Petersburg:
Nevsky Prospect is the main street in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Planned by Peter the Great as the beginning of the road to Novgorod and Moscow [...] chief sights include the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, the Art Nouveau Bookhouse, Elisseeff Emporium, half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great, an enormous 18th-century shopping mall, a mid-19th-century department store, the Russian National Library, the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues, and the Singer House. The feverish life of the avenue was described by Nikolai Gogol in his story "Nevsky Prospekt". Fyodor Dostoevsky often employed the Nevksy Prospekt as a setting within his works, such as Crime and Punishment and The Double: A Petersburg Poem. (source)
Alors, more to come.
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| People frequently photobomb me in Europe and I honestly have no idea why. |
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