A performance by priests

Aeroflot Building (1912)

Alexander Pushkin in Arts Square

Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow, but spent many years in St Petersburg

Alexandrinsky Theater on Nevsky Avenue

Another statue symbolizing Russia's victory over Sweden

Arcades of Gostinyy Dvor - St Petersburg's main bazaar.

Armenian church on Nevskiy Prospekt with its Neo-classical portico and single cupola

At 9:40 pm October 25 1917, a single shot was fired from the Aurora to signal the storming of the Winter Palace

Barrikada Cinema

Church of Spilled Blood - spectacular against blue skies

Church on Spilled Blood

Church on Spilled Blood

Church on Spilled Blood

Church on Spilled Blood stands on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was murdered