The Winter Palace
The Church on Spilt Blood, built on the spot where Aleksandr II was assassinated
A sphinx, aged 3,300
Soviet architecture
Where there is a Winter Palace, there is also a Summer Palace
The Smolny Cathedral, Rastrelli’s baroque masterpiece
Perfect proportions – Architect Rossi Street
The river Neva
Art nouveau at the Vitebsky Station
Decembrist Square seen from St Isaac’s Cathedral
By the river Fontanka
The golden spire of Saints Pyotr and Pavel’s Cathedral
Mikhailovsky Palace (Russian Museum)
The Kazan Cathedral
The Singer building on Nevsky Prospekt
Yelagin Palace
The former Stock Exchange and the Rostral Columns at the Spit of Vasilievsky Island
Tauride Palace, presented by Ekaterina II to Potyomkin
St Isaac’s Cathedral
The Palace Square with the Alexander Column and the General Staff Building
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