As set of HDR-picures I captured, in early June 2010, on a visit to the former capital of the Russian Empire, Saint Petersburg. Russias most beautiful city is foramly known as Petrograd and Leningrad but after the breakdown of the Soviet Union it took back it's original name Saint Petersburg.
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A view captured at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The mounment in the middle is a bronze equestrian monument to the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues. Behind the monument to the left you can see the mighty Saint Isaac's Cathedral. The Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by Auguste de Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays.
A view captured at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The mounment in the middle is a bronze equestrian monument to the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues. Behind the monument to the left you can see the mighty Saint Isaac's Cathedral. The Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by Auguste de Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays.
A view of the Monument to Nicholas I at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues.
A view of the Monument to Nicholas I at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues.
A reflection of Saint Isaac's Cathedral (Исаакиевский собор), captured on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Saint Isaac's Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays. The present cathedral is the fourth version built, the first was a wooden church commissioned by Peter the Great in 1710. Peter named it after a Byzantine monk Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, as he was born on Saint Isaac's feast day according to the Orthodox calendar. In 1768 Catherine the Great commissioned the current cathedral to be built on the same site in honour of her hero Peter the Great.
A dubble Saint Issac's Cathedral (Исаакиевский собор), captured on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Saint Isaac's Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays. The present cathedral is the fourth version built, the first was a wooden church commissioned by Peter the Great in 1710. Peter named it after a Byzantine monk Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, as he was born on Saint Isaac's feast day according to the Orthodox calendar. In 1768 Catherine the Great commissioned the current cathedral to be built on the same site in honour of her hero Peter the Great.
A capture from inside of the mighty Saint Issac's Cathedral (Исаакиевский собор) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Saint Isaac's Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays. The present cathedral is the fourth version built, the first was a wooden church commissioned by Peter the Great in 1710. Peter named it after a Byzantine monk Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, as he was born on Saint Isaac's feast day according to the Orthodox calendar. In 1768 Catherine the Great commissioned the current cathedral to be built on the same site in honour of her hero Peter the Great.
A capture of the Bronze Horseman on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Bronze Horseman, an impressive monument to the founder of Saint Petersburg, Peter the Great, stands on the Decembrists Square. The monument was built by order of the Empress Catherine the Great as a tribute to her famous predecessor on the Russian throne, Peter the Great. Being a German princess by birth, she was eager to establish a line of continuity with the earlier Russian monarchs. For that reason an inscription on the monument reads in Latin and Russian: Petro Primo Catharina Secunda - To Peter the First from Catherine the Second. This equestrian statue of Peter the Great, created by the famous French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, depicts the most prominent reformer of the Russia state as a Roman hero. The pedestal is made of a single piece of red granite moulded into the shape of a cliff. From the top of this "cliff" Peter gallantly leads Russia forward, while his horse steps on a snake, which represents the enemies of Peter and his reforms.
The Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul captured on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Cathedral, dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul is located within the Peter and Paul Fortress on an island near the northern bank of the Neva River. The cathedral was built under the direction of Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century and became the burial place for members of the Romanov dynasty. Construction of the original wooden church began in 1703 and the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Job of Novgorod in 1704 in the presence of Peter the Great and soon became an important social and spiritual center in the new city. On Tsar Peter’s birthday, May 30 1712, the construction of the current stone cathedral began. The new building, that was the first stone church in Saint Petersburg, was built around the wooden church. The wooden church remained in use until it was dismantled and moved to a different site in 1718-1719. The architect of the new cathedral was Domenico Trezzini who also designed of the Peter and Paul Fortress. With Peter I’s death, the cathedral inherited its role as the burial place of the Romanov rulers. After his death in 1725, Peter’s body was kept in a temporary wooden chapel for six years until it was interred in the new cathedral in 1931, thus establishing the cathedral as the imperial sepulcher. Today there are thirty two graves in the cathedral.
A view captured at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The mounment in the middle is a bronze equestrian monument to the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues.

Behind the monument to the left you can see the mighty Saint Isaac's Cathedral. The Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by Auguste de Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays.
A view captured at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The mounment in the middle is a bronze equestrian monument to the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues. Behind the monument to the left you can see the mighty Saint Isaac's Cathedral. The Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by Auguste de Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays.
A view captured at Saint Isaac's Square on a rainy day in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The mounment in the middle is a bronze equestrian monument to the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. The Neo-Baroque monument to the Russian tsar was designed by the French-born architect Auguste de Montferrand in 1856 (unveiled 1859). At the personal request of his successor Alexander II, Nicholas was represented as a prancing knight, in the military outfit in which the late tsar was most majestic. Around the base are allegorical statues modelled on Nicholas I's daughters and personifying virtues.

Behind the monument to the left you can see the mighty Saint Isaac's Cathedral. The Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by Auguste de Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. The cathedral, which can accommodate 14,000 worshipers, now serves as a museum and services are held only on significant ecclesiastical holidays.
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