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The church with a strange name
Saint Petersburg - Church of the Savior on Blood

So, they call it the Church of Saviour on Spilled Blood... the French translations are very various, but at least, it is clear that it refers to the...

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Night is coming [RU]
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg

UNESCO : Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments Date of Inscription: 1990 Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)(vi)

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San Petersburgo
St. Petersburg - Ermitage
by Enrica Fabriani

El Palacio de Invierno, antigua residencia de los zares, alberga hoy uno de los museos más importantes del mundo, el Hermitage. Asimismo, su asalto fue el que dio comienzo a la revolución rusa de 1917. Desde 1990 es Patrimonio de la Humanidad junto al centro histórico de San Petersburgo.

Spilled blood
Saint Petersburg - Church of the Savior on Blood

And the last church. This is NOT Basil's in Moscow, but the Saviour on the Spilled Blood in St Petersburg (Russia, July 2006)

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Spilled Blood in Winter
Saint Petersburg - Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

From another angle the following evening, shame about all the wires, impossible to avoid them.

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (Russian:...

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Spilled Blood in Winter
Spilled Blood in Winter

This was the very first photo I took on the last trip, still jetlagged, and long after the blue hour, yet the sky still had some definition, so I...

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Most notably Andrey Sulitskiy, Andrey Bogdanov and Yi Jiang.