Here’s some shots we took inside Tanya’s mom’s apartment (in Soligorsk) and also when we visited family and friends there…

This is Soligorsk — my wife’s hometown.

Here’re some facts and figures about St. Petersburg... City was founded on May 27, 1703. St. Petersburg is the most Northern city in the world with a population over 1 million (actual population is almost 5 million). City’s area is 1400 square kilometers. The city is...

Here’s some shots we took inside my mom’s apartment (in St. Petersburg) and also when we visited our friends…

Во время нашей поездки в Питер невозможно было не навестить моего лучшего друга!

The fortress was founded on a small island in the Neva delta on May 27, 1703 (May 16 according to the old calendar) and that day became the birthday of the city of St Petersburg.

The town of Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoye Selo) lies just outside St. Petersburg and has a marvelous ensemble of palaces and parks. It is particularly famous for its impressive baroque Catherine Palace, where Empress Catherine the Great lived and died.

From the 1760s onwards the Winter Palace was the main residence of the Russian Tsars.

Aleksandr Nevskiy’s Monastery…