St Pete's

St Petersburg is decribed as the more artistic, easy going beautiful brother of Moscow. Criss-crossed with canals and housing some amazing architecture and art galleries, this great city dispelled even further our preconceived notions of Russia. With only a few days, we mainly hung around the city, doing plenty of wandering late into the night as the sun doesn't even really ever set this time of year and even at midnight there is still a strange twilight warming the city.

One of the many canals in the middle of the city

And an artists impression of such

Ok, so maybe some of this stuff can still look quite intimidating, especially when shot in black and white

And the name of this beautiful church being the 'church of spilt blood' isn't all that warm 'n' fuzzy

But the colours and detail are spectacular

Long shadows of the never setting sun

An angel looking over the city

Someone fleeing the local paparazzi

Getting to the more interesting underbelly is always possible when you climb a tower

Another street artist

The influence of the orthodox church in Russian history is very evident through the arctitecture

Damn paparazzi

Apparently Dostoevsky used to eat at this establishment so thought it would be a good place to try some caviar