This is the State Heritage Museum is a museum of the art and culture of Russia.
This is the Savior on the Spilled Blood church in St. Petersburg. This is one of the most common things people think of when they think of Russia. It was completed in 1907.
This is the winter palace was the residence of the Russian monarchs from 1732 to 1917.
This is the peterhof. It is an group of palaces and gardens.
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is a cathedral that was built in 1858.
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I'd love to visit St. Petersburg some day! This made me think of when Dostoyevsky called the city the "most abstract and premeditated city in the whole world”. With further research, there's actually a pretty dark history behind how this Russian city came to be, and is often nicknamed the "city built on bones". The landscape of where the city would be was originally swampland (like New Orleans!), and in 1703 Tsar Peter the Great sent General Alexander Menshikov there to build the Peter and Paul Fortress, along with several thousand labor workers that were basically worked to death.
^ also my source is https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/23/story-of-cities-8-st-petersburg-city-built-on-bones-starting-to-crumble
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