Oto in Motherland: a (huge) photo log

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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:13 pm

Bottle
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:14 pm

I loved this eclectic group of tattered old buildings – with massive smoke stacks rising behind them.
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Foot bridge across the Fontanka
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People throw coins on that from the bridge
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I missed :(

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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:14 pm

Fontanka, continued
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Oto’s shadow
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Oto’s notshadow
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Fontanka, still
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Street
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:15 pm

A really worn-out building
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Strange lack of windows:
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:16 pm

St. Petersburg’s City Hall on Isaakevskaya Square. Certainly well-maintained.
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As some may or may not know, Russia’s president Putin was a St. Petersburg city official before moving up (and after his stint as a KGB spy). In the 90’s, when my dad went to city hall to register my grandmother’s small business, the official meeting him and signing the papers was none other than Putin.

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Monument to Nicholas I, famed not for the person but the horse, which is the only horse monument of this type in the world that balances on two points (the legs) instead of 3 points (legs + tail) – designed by the same sculptor Klodt with some ingenious calculation.
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That girl having her picture taken there was REALLY cute. A passing group of Japanese tourists saw here and immediately rushed to beg her to take pictures with them :lol:

Elaborate lamp next to the monument
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:17 pm

Bottle at the monument
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Tiny streetlight
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St. Isaac’s Cathedral, 2nd largest Orthodox church and one of the largest in the world, and certainly one of the more impressive mostly-granite structures in the world
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I didn’t get to go inside this time, but it as impressively rich from the inside as it is huge from the outside.
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Interesting Oto fact:
My great-great-grandfather, a remarkable artist and eventually the first president of the Russian Academy of Arts under the Soviet regime, designed some of the mosaics in this cathedral.

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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:17 pm

St. Isaac’s Cathedral
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Sign reads:
“These are the marks left by one of the 148478 shells fired by the Fascists at Leningrad in 1941-1944” (Leningrad is St. Petersburg’s Soviet-era name)

The marks:
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(these columns are MASSIVE pieces of solid granite, mind you!)

The 5-star Astoria hotel on the opposite end of the square, favoured by the city’s important guests, like Bush for example.
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:19 pm

Construction, with the Admiralty spire in the background
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Street
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These things supposedly prevent people from driving/parking on sidewalks
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Old building
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:19 pm

Street
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Technology and Design University (formerly a Soviet agricultural school, note the insignia)
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Stroganov palace, again
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Parking
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Random?
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:19 pm

Boats on the Moika
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Nevsky Prospekt
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Kazan Cathedral
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Nevsky Prospekt with the main bookstore
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:20 pm

Kazan Cathedral, main facade
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The lawn enclosure at the Kazan cathedral
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Flower bed at the Kazan Cathedral
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Blue building on Nevsky at the Griboedov Canal, housing the entrance to the subway. I went home from here.
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:20 pm

Another day, another excursion to the same place – we didn’t see everything in the Fortress quite yet, so we did another take.

Back at the Spit of Vasilievsky Island
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If anyone tells you there are no bears on the street in Russia…
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Back to strategic-coin-placement
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Restoration work at the fortress walls
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Original state of the walls
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:22 pm

Fortress Wall
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Gosudarev Bastion (King’s Bastion)
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Drain
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The even more… original state of the walls
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One of the Cathedral’s cupolas under restoration
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:22 pm

The Restoration Machine?
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Back of the cathedral
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Lens Flare’d Spire
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Back home… OMG
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Best food lunch evar. Smoked trout sandwich + Kvas, the drink of pure awesome

*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:23 pm

Another day, more wandering around.

Nalichnaya street at Nakhimov street, Vasilievsky island
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Tram rails on the pavement
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What does this building say on it?
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“ORLY”

ya, rly. :lol:


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Anyone who guesses what movie this is a reference to… will laugh, I think.

*to be continued*
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