St. Petersburg, 聖彼得堡

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood during a squally autumn morning. The church marks the spot where the reformist Tsar Alexander II was assassinated by a bomb-rolling revolutionary. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features)

The angel atop the Alexander column. Built after Russia's victory over Napoleon, the column's 600 ton granite trunk was tipped into place by 2,000 soldiers. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

The Hermitage Pavilion wreathed in dawn mist. The little "whipped cream" pavilion was an example of the decadence which would eventually topple the Tsarist autocracy. It was famous for parties where tables laden with food would rise from beneath the floorboards into groups of delighted guests. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood was built only as an epitaph to the murdered Tsar and wasn't intended for public worship. A patch of the cobbled street on which the Tsar lay mortally wounded is preserved within the old church, now open to the public as a museum. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

Visitors walk on fallen leaves in the Summer Garden, central St. Petersburg's oldest Park. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

Mikhailovsky Castle, commissioned by Emperor Paul I, whose premonitions of assassination drove him to create the fortified residence. Forty days after moving into the castle he was murdered in his own bedroom in 1801. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

Saints Peter & Paul Cathedral in Peterhof, the palace and gardens in the background. Beyond, the Finnish Gulf is obscured by fog. During World War II, German armies occupied Peterhof, destroying it almost completely on their retreat. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

The Palace at Peterhof, perched on a bluff overlooking the sea some 30km (19mi) from central Saint Petersburg. In his later years Peter the Great kept a study in the palace from where he could look out to the distant spires of Saint Petersburg, and the island fortress of Kronstadt guarding his new capital. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features)

Smolny Convent at sunset. The building once housed a finishing school for Russian noblewomen. Delicate young graduates were known to have "some education.. strictly ceremonious manners" and a "thirst for expressing their feelings." (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #

Saints Peter & Paul Cathedral rising through winter mist. (Amos Chapple/Rex Features) #
St. Petersburg From Above - In Focus - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/st-petersburg-from-above/100705/
Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg
聖彼得堡 - 維基百科，自由的百科全書
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