New apartment buildings along the Gulf of Finland October 14, 2007

Sign advertising Zvezda (Star) television network, which is produced by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The slogan below the image of the Federation Tower and the Moscow City complex reads, "Be strong"
(Bood silni), October 14, 2007

A statue of V.I. Lenin in front of an old Soviet building, October 15, 2007

Another view of the Lenin statue - just like back in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle!

Inside the Marinsky Theater before a performance of the opera Don Giovanni (Don Juan)
in Italian, October 16, 2007

The VIP box at the Marinsky Theater. The theater program gave a special thanks to St. Petersburg Mayor Valentina Matviyenko, former Russian Economics and Trade Minister German Gref, and Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin for their support of the performing arts in the city

A sign advertising the state natural gas monopoly Gazprom on Nevsky Prospekt, October 16, 2007

Another view of Nevsky Prospket at night

Charles Ganske on Nevsky

Charles Ganske next to a mannequin of Anton Gorodetsky, hero of the
Russian action/horror film Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor), October 17, 2007

Sign advertising Zenit, the local professional hockey and soccer club

Interior of a the local Fontanka Pizza restaurant

The Alexander Nevsky Monastery

The Hotel Moskva and a McDonalds across the street from the Alexander Nevsky Monastery

A sign directing drivers north towards the highway to Murmansk

Downtown St. Petersburg near the Moskovsky Rail Station, October 18, 2007

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