Cyril Moshkow ([info]wolk_off) wrote in [info]cityscapes,
@ 2005-01-27 00:32:00
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Wet winter
St.Petersburg, Russia, January 8, 2005, as seen from the top of St.Isaac's Cathedral (the tallest building in the city's historic part.)
The triple dome is Izmailov Infantry Regiment Cathedral (early 19th century.)

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[info]jefzila
2005-01-26 09:36 pm UTC (link)
..cool..

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[info]hectop
2005-01-26 09:51 pm UTC (link)
Back in the 1989 USSR, I was guiding an american tour group around Kiev. Once we were passing the gray five-story building at Vladimirskaya 33, I told them that it was the tallest building in the city. Everyone was wondering how could it be so? The answer was simple: "it's the KGB headquarters, even from the first floor you can see Siberia!"

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[info]cinamonas
2005-01-26 10:21 pm UTC (link)
nice foto.
O like the light reflections on the roofs

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[info]sirsucknasty
2005-01-26 11:46 pm UTC (link)
great picture. so expansive! do you have a bigger version? i'd like to see it...well, BIGGER. :)

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[info]wolk_off
2005-01-27 08:02 am UTC (link)
here. 120 kb (1200x900 dots.) I'll keep it there for a couple of days.

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[info]sirsucknasty
2005-01-27 08:07 am UTC (link)
thanks!

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[info]emjayne
2005-01-27 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Gorgeous. Thank you. I keep a small bank of photos as travel inspiration, and this one made it in, easy. Hope you don't mind.

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[info]wolk_off
2005-01-27 09:53 pm UTC (link)
Go ahead. As soon as you don't sell it, use it as you wish :)

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[info]emjayne
2005-01-28 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Many thanks. I've no intention of selling it. ~MJ

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Izmailov Cathedral
[info]marusja
2005-01-26 11:52 pm UTC (link)
My favorite building in St.-Petersburg...

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Re: Izmailov Cathedral
[info]wolk_off
2005-01-27 09:58 pm UTC (link)
I like its appearance far away, its blue triple dome nicely finishing some streets' perspective. But I have to admit that I don't really like it from a distance shorter than one mile :)

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[info]gaya_
2005-01-27 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Correction: this cathedral is not the tallest one :) St.Peter's & Paul Fortress has the tallest belltower that was built about a hundred years earlier. (DB)

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[info]wolk_off
2005-01-27 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Yes Gaya and DB, nice to see you both here, but can you make it to the top of St.Peter and Paul's? I seriously doubt it, while there is a special tourist gallery on St.Isaac's dome :)

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