Bronze Horseman (Monument to Peter the Great) St. Petersburg

After my first night's late finish (it felt like an eternity but I'd only had one single evening in Russia and it seemed like Copenhagen and Helsinki were long gone) I arose with Katya and Anton. I was on a narrow mattress on the floor, with my head not far from the kitty litter box. Hmmmm. Katya kindly took me to a bank to change my GB Pounds. …

... on the train we wandered down Nevsky Prospect, past Admiralty Gardens and onto the famous Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman statue. St Petersburg is definitely a beautiful city. We walked past St Isaac's Cathedral and along the frozen river. At this ...

... the water seems to sparkle in the evening sun. Peter the Great and his horse look ready to leap forth off their boulder at the Bronze Horseman statue.  I can hardly absorb it all with my eyes, and there is no way my little camera can do it justice ...

... was out and we ticked off the Dostoevsky statue, catherine the great statue, kazan cathedral, the colonnade of st Issacs cathedral, the bronze horseman, walked by the Winter Palace and Hermitage and through quiet backstreets to the domed Church of the ...

... gray and pink stone and displays a total of 112 red granite columns with Corinthian capitals. THE SENATE SQUARE AND THE BRONZE HORSEMAN Known as the Senate Square before 1925, whereafter renamed to Decembrists Square, the square is home to the ...

... cannon shot signaled the beginning of the Revolution of 1917 (also visited the first building of St. Petersburg - the log cabin of Russian emperor Peter the Great) Peter and Paul Fortress Vasily's Island The Bronze Horseman (statue dedicated ...

... throughout the grounds. We checked out Peter and Paul's Fortress, the former KGB headquarters (just from the outside!), the Bronze Horseman (Peter the Great, dedicated from Catherine the Great), Mars Field and St. Isaac's cathedral (apparently one of ...

... beautiful, and much more tourist friendly than Moscow (ie more signs in Roman script and more English spoken!). We saw the Bronze Horseman, the Church of Spilled blood, the hermitage and many of the cities famous bridges. We also went to the hermitage ...

... in Civilization, and Pushkin in Arts – and both are addictingly fantastic. Pushkin’s description of St. Petersburg in the introduction to Bronze Horseman, “I love thee, Peter’s proud creation. Thy princely stateliness of line. The ...

... The Admiralty with it's famous golden spire, the Palace Square including the Hermitage art museum, St Isaac's Cathedral (third largest in the world), the Bronze Horseman (1782, statue of Peter the Great), the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (very ...

... eyes.  An example of that being (and I hope that I am remembering correctly) Pushkin wrote this narrative poem called The Bronze Horseman (one of my absolute favorites) about this character, Eugene, who survived the great flood of St. Petersburg by ...