Oktyabrskaya Embankment, Russia

It is of course, impossible to visit all the iconic places of St. Petersburg in one day — unless of course, you have a time machine. Walking along the historical streets of the city, tourists will come across surprises in the form of ravishing sculptures. During your promenade along Malaya Sadovaya Street, for example, on one of the buildings, you can notice the composition with “Cat Elisha and cat Vasilisa”. The Fontanka Embankment is decorated with a beautiful bird Chizhik-Pyzhik that is perfectly observed during the boat trip. You cannot miss the famous sculpture “The Bronze Horseman”, as well as monuments dedicated to famous people such as Tsars Peter I and Nicholas I, writers like Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky, actor Georgy Vitsin and the artist Ivan Aivazovsky. The Monument to heroic defenders of Leningrad glorifying the courage of the Russian people is also an interesting place. One more attraction of St. Petersburg is a memorial in honor of victims of Stalin’s repressions.

The square in front of Great Peterhof Palace is decorated with the stunning fountain “Samson tearing apart the lion’s mouth”. Unfortunately, the original composition was damaged during the Second World War, despite how carefully it was guarded. The same fate befell many parts of the majestic Peterhof, but all the structures that were affected by the conflict were immediately restored to the fullest possible extent. The palace was built in the year 1725 according to the project of Johann Braunstein and Jean-Baptiste Leblond and rebuilt in 1752 by order of Elizabeth, who admired the Palace of Versailles. Francesco Rastrelli was invited as an architect. The “Petrine Baroque” had been the original style of the building and it was changed to “mature baroque” after remodeling. In its halls, you can find not only the majestic apartments where noble persons lived but also the museum collection which is displayed there nowadays.
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