I lived in St. Petersburg from February to late June, 2011.
The city is incredible – simultaneously beautiful and difficult. I would recommend visiting to anyone. Whilst the winter snow is certainly a bit magical, it makes getting around pretty hard. The best time is definitely June: the weather is brilliant, there’s a celebration almost every weekend and the light lasts all the way through the night.
St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral
Church on Spilled Blood, park view
White nights in St. Petersburg (photo taken at midnight in mid-June)
Aliye Parusa festival
Mayakovskaya metro stop
Frozen Neva
Defenders of Leningrad monument
The Bronze Horseman in the snow
Chesme Church in the snow
Pivskarevskoye memorial cemetery
Victory Day
Smolny Cathedral
Elagin Island
Kazan Cathedral in summer
Jordan staircase, the Hermitage
Winter Palace
Lenin
Winter palace on the river Neva
Jordan staircase, the Hermitage
Northernmost Buddhist temple in the world
View from St Isaac’s cathedral
Great photos, looks like a magic place.
Thank you. It really is an amazing place, would love to head back soon – just a shame it’s not cheaper or easier to reach.
Looks gorgeous – is there a cheap way to get there from the UK?
Jet2 do package deals there now, but otherwise the cheapest way is to fly to Tallinn and then get Eurolines bus to SPB for about £20-30. The latter is obviously a bit time consuming, but it’s easy enough.
The snow looks so magical but brrrrr…. looks insanely cold!
Once it gets past -15 it’s all the same 😉
After that – it’s just numb??