TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY PHOTOS

Hopefully all readers had a small hoot over the exploits described in the “Hey – It’s Russia” blog.

Below are some selected photos I uploaded before the electricity goes out today.

And in case anyone is interested, it is 100% raining hard and steady today. Not sure if the boat tour of the Northern Islands will be in my future today.

Old Russia - Saints Peter and Paul Fortress.

New Russia - BTB, Megafon and Samsung.

Monument to General Suvarov.

Mars Field - a large park where people come to play with their families and relax on the benches with freinds. Down the center path is a monument to revolutionary soldiers and the old red flag with hammer and sickle still flies.

Cathedral of the Transfiguration - to be visited later.

Approaching the Summer Garden along the Fontanka River. The Fontanka gets its name from all the fountains that were built in Peter the Great's Summer Garden which runs astride this river.

Charlemagne Entrance to Summer Garden. The porphyry vase was a gift from Sweden.

The carp pond looking back at the Charlemagne Entrance.

One of the dozens of weddings taking place in the beautiful Summer Garden on Wednesday, August 22.

One of the dozens of fountains that line the paths at the Summer Garden.

Everyone is a poseur.

I think this may be the Amor and Psyche fountain?

The long entrance line into the Hermitage that we avoided last Saturday.

Kunstkammer, where Peter the Great accumulated his "monsters." To be visited, maybe even today.

The stadium where the championship St. Petersburg Zenit soccer team plays.

Coast Guard vessel on the Neva River. They were working on something inside the bay doors.