St. Petersburg Walk


00 St. Petersburg Walk – A Plaque in the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
00 St. Petersburg Walk A Plaque in the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood 

St. Petersburg Walk

Coordinates: 59.9402° N, 30.3289° E
Address: Griboyedov channel embankment, 2Б, St Petersburg, 191186, Russia
Founded by: Tsar Peter the Great
Architect/s: Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Architectural Style: Baroque

The erstwhile capital of Russia was founded on May, 27, 1703 and remained so from 1712, till the Russian Revolution of 1917 except for four years. Its name got changed to Petrograd to Lenigrad to Saint Petersburg. My early morning walk in Nevsky Avenue along Dvorets Belosel'skikh-Belozerskikh crossing Anichkov Bridge over Fontanka River to Savior of the Spilled Blood Church. The walk in an early morning showed me an interestingly illuminated Yekaterininskiy Sad, National Library of Russia, Portik Perinnoy Linii, Bazilika Svyatoy Yekateriny Aleksandriyskoy, Dom Knigi, Kazanskaya Square, Gostinyy dvor, Armyanskaya Apostol'skaya Tserkov' Sv., Yekateriny  and The Benois Wing. I was soaking in the history of more than three centuries and I could imagine the royal parades, feuds, battles and wars which took on that very place of earth.


01 St. Petersburg Walk - Portik Perinnoy Linii
01 St. Petersburg Walk - Portik Perinnoy Linii 

02 St. Petersburg Walk - Bazilika Svyatoy Yekateriny Aleksandriyskoy
02 St. Petersburg Walk - Bazilika Svyatoy Yekateriny Aleksandriyskoy

03 St. Petersburg Walk - Dom Knigi
03 St. Petersburg Walk - Dom Knigi

04 St. Petersburg Walk - Kazanskaya Square
04 St. Petersburg Walk - Kazanskaya Square

05 St. Petersburg Walk - The Benois Wing
05 St. Petersburg Walk - The Benois Wing

06 St. Petersburg Walk - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
06 St. Petersburg Walk - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

07 St. Petersburg Walk - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
07 St. Petersburg Walk - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

08 St. Petersburg Walk - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
08 St. Petersburg Walk - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

09 St. Petersburg Walk - Gostinyy dvor
09 St. Petersburg Walk - Gostinyy dvor

10 St. Petersburg Walk - Armyanskaya Apostol'skaya Tserkov' Sv. Yekateriny
10 St. Petersburg Walk - Armyanskaya Apostol'skaya Tserkov' Sv. Yekateriny

11 St. Petersburg Walk - Bank Saint-Petersburg
11 St. Petersburg Walk - Bank Saint-Petersburg

12 St. Petersburg Walk - Dvorets Belosel'skikh-Belozerskikh
12 St. Petersburg Walk - Dvorets Belosel'skikh-Belozerskikh

13 St. Petersburg Walk - Tourist Information Bureau
13 St. Petersburg Walk - Tourist Information Bureau

 

Photographs by the Author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saint_Petersburg

 

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