Catherine Palace in the town of Pushkin, near Saint Petersburg

below: aspects of Saint Petersburg

Statue on Anichkov Bridge

Saint Isaac's Cathedral

Smolnyy Convent

(right) detail from a door at Saint Isaac's Cathedral

One of Saint Petersburg's two 'Rostral Columns' - originally designed as lighthouses

The River Neva and The Hermitage's Winter Palace

(left) the Cruiser Aurora, the ship that fired the shot to commence the October 1917 Revolution

 

(right) tombs of the last Romanovs in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul