Monument to Przhevalsky, a famous explorer of Central Asia
The beaten path…
Wedding party at St. Isaac’s
*to be continued*
Oto in Motherland: a (huge) photo log
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Otohiko
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The Admiralty building, in a state of obvious disrepair
Monument to Przhevalsky, a famous explorer of Central Asia
The beaten path…
Wedding party at St. Isaac’s
*to be continued*
Monument to Przhevalsky, a famous explorer of Central Asia
The beaten path…
Wedding party at St. Isaac’s
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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More grass
The Bronze Horseman – the most prominent monument to Peter the Great, put in at Catherine the Great’s behest
Street
*to be continued*
The Bronze Horseman – the most prominent monument to Peter the Great, put in at Catherine the Great’s behest
Street
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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Nevsky Prospekt yet again
What. It’s a huge street!
Winter Palace, from the Palace Bridge
The Kunstkammer from the Palace Bridge – Russia’s first museum, holding among other things Peter the Great’s personal collection, which includes two-headed animals, deformed fetuses and teeth he himself pulled out of his patients. Peter mastered 14 professions in his life, including shipbuilder, stonemason, grenadier and dentist.
Oto on Palace Bridge
Bottles
*to be continued*
What. It’s a huge street!
Winter Palace, from the Palace Bridge
The Kunstkammer from the Palace Bridge – Russia’s first museum, holding among other things Peter the Great’s personal collection, which includes two-headed animals, deformed fetuses and teeth he himself pulled out of his patients. Peter mastered 14 professions in his life, including shipbuilder, stonemason, grenadier and dentist.
Oto on Palace Bridge
Bottles
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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Otohiko
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Rostral Columns and Stock Market building
And there’s that famed floating fountain. It’s quite huge.
Doesn’t look as impressive as it does ‘live’ – it has a rather elaborate pattern of cascades programmed patterns, and at night it’s illuminated by lights and accompanied by music.
Fortress
Oto
The crappy restaurantship
*to be continued*
And there’s that famed floating fountain. It’s quite huge.
Doesn’t look as impressive as it does ‘live’ – it has a rather elaborate pattern of cascades programmed patterns, and at night it’s illuminated by lights and accompanied by music.
Fortress
Oto
The crappy restaurantship
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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Streets near the bridge
Someone’s ex-lunch
Bridge
Crappyship. My inexplicable hate for its ugliness knows no bounds.
This KamAZ (a UKMS[Z]-produced multi-purpose truck – yes, that’s where the famed Russian AMV editor gets his name from – Uralo-Kamski-Maschino-Stroitel’nyi-[Zavod], “Ural-Kama Machine-Building [Factory]”) is much prettier than the “ship”
*to be continued*
Someone’s ex-lunch
Bridge
Crappyship. My inexplicable hate for its ugliness knows no bounds.
This KamAZ (a UKMS[Z]-produced multi-purpose truck – yes, that’s where the famed Russian AMV editor gets his name from – Uralo-Kamski-Maschino-Stroitel’nyi-[Zavod], “Ural-Kama Machine-Building [Factory]”) is much prettier than the “ship”
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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Pipe
Fortress and another floating restaurant
The Music Hall theatre
Entrance to the Gorkovskaya subways station
Uh, my grandfather watching TV?
*to be continued*
But later, now is the regularly-scheduled pause time!
Fortress and another floating restaurant
The Music Hall theatre
Entrance to the Gorkovskaya subways station
Uh, my grandfather watching TV?
*to be continued*
But later, now is the regularly-scheduled pause time!
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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And now for something entirely different – my one departure out of St. Petersburg.
As some may or may not know, Russians have Dachas – summer cottages. I was quizzed repeatedly by Orwell on this one – “what’s the difference between a cottage and a Dacha?” I couldn’t give an exact verbal answer, but I will say this: a dacha is a cottage, NOT. A dacha is a dacha. Don’t argue with me, just accept this as fact and move on.
Anyway, my grandfather has a dacha on the Karelian Isthmus, former Finnish territory northwest of St. Petersburg. It is actually quite unlike many dachas – it’s located on a small island in the middle of a lake, with rowboats as the chief means of transportation. Very quaint.
I dubbed this my favorite place in the world before, and I stand by it. In the mere 3 days that I was there, I unwound better than on any other given break I had in recent memory. Spartan living conditions but amazing nature. The fact that it’s all focused on water and self-powered water transport is probably what makes it particularly special.
So off to the trip, starting at Udel’naya station
…and this friendly pigeon who wanted to pose for the camera:
Railz
*to be continued*
As some may or may not know, Russians have Dachas – summer cottages. I was quizzed repeatedly by Orwell on this one – “what’s the difference between a cottage and a Dacha?” I couldn’t give an exact verbal answer, but I will say this: a dacha is a cottage, NOT. A dacha is a dacha. Don’t argue with me, just accept this as fact and move on.
Anyway, my grandfather has a dacha on the Karelian Isthmus, former Finnish territory northwest of St. Petersburg. It is actually quite unlike many dachas – it’s located on a small island in the middle of a lake, with rowboats as the chief means of transportation. Very quaint.
I dubbed this my favorite place in the world before, and I stand by it. In the mere 3 days that I was there, I unwound better than on any other given break I had in recent memory. Spartan living conditions but amazing nature. The fact that it’s all focused on water and self-powered water transport is probably what makes it particularly special.
So off to the trip, starting at Udel’naya station
…and this friendly pigeon who wanted to pose for the camera:
Railz
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…
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Otohiko
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Riding through the Motherland
No comment
(the train was moving fast and I didn’t know what I was even shooting. I personally find this scene amazing[ly sad])
Bus in the bush
Guy at the railroad
*to be continued*
No comment
(the train was moving fast and I didn’t know what I was even shooting. I personally find this scene amazing[ly sad])
Bus in the bush
Guy at the railroad
*to be continued*
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…