Vasilievskiy - My Would-be Neighborhood

Friday after work I headed to the one major part of St. Petersburg's center that I had not yet visited - Vasilievsky Island. It turns out that I really liked it and if I were settling down in St. Petersburg for good, I think this is where it would be. It felt more like a neighborhood than a lot of other areas and was a little quieter, but still had all the things you need. It has a really nice, active pedestrian street and awesome views. I don't know if I have much else to say about it though...

So I'll just post some pictures from my walk.

A nice church


One of two 3500 year-old sphinxes, installed on either side of the steps leading down to the river in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts. They are the two most northerly located Egyptian sphinxes in the world and were brought to St. Petersburg from Thebes and placed here in 1823.

St. Peter and Paul Fortress

I feel like my blogging effort lately has been a little lackluster, for which I apologize. I'll try to make my posts a little more exciting, and maybe even a little more witty. I don't want to lose readers, you know.