#st petersburg
Постновогодние фото из Питера. Нам довелось испытать крепость морозов культурной столицы, к счастью, никто не пострадал.
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St. Petersburg, Florida is quickly incorporated before it recedes back into the mist for another four years.
Monochrome Week:
#tb to July, 2015
Common Swift at the abandoned Northern fort №1, Kronshtadt, Russia
The town of Kronstadt is the fortress in the sea, situated on the small island of Kotlin in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, 48 km west of Saint Petersburg.
Kronshtadt (also spelled Kronstadt, Cronstadt) is the town with the population of 45000 people and famous #history. Nowadays this town is formally a district of St.Petersburg.
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“Reasoning in this way he found himself on one of the main streets of Petersburg in front of a house of antiquated architecture. The street was blocked with equipages; one after another the carriages rolled up to the illuminated porch. At one moment the shapely foot of a young beauty stretched out of a carriage….”
–Alexander Pushkin, The Queen of Spades, translated by Carl Proffer
New way to entice myself to read is to look up all the words I don’t know and write a post about each one, or use them to make sentences in my journal. Equipage is a horse-drawn carriage. Above photo is one in front of the Winter Palace.
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