The ninth-formers of our school made an exciting trip to St Petersburg in June 2008.

We got wonderful impressions. St Petersburg and its suburbs have retained to this day fabulously rich royal residences, palaces and churches. Monuments and arcs, columns and obelisks decorate the city’s streets; green parks and gardens hide behind its ornate fences. Bridges with elegant lanterns and lacy metal handrails span St Petersburg rivers and canals. The northern capital is especially beautiful in the light White Nights.
We took a lot of pictures, here’re some of them.

The Smolny Cathedral

St Isaac's Square.Monument to Nicholas I

Peterhof
View of the Great Palace and Grand Cascade

Marvelous fountains of Peterhof

Chessboard Hill

Triton Tearing Open the Jaws of a Sea Monster

University Embankment. Pier in front of the Academy of Arts.
Sphinx from Egypt

The Peter and Paul Fortress

The Cannon on the Naryshkin Bastion fires every day at noon 

In the halls of the Winter Palace, the State Hermitage

The Peacock Clock

Tsarskoye Selo

Catherine Palace

Grand Hall of the Palace

Wonderful corners of the Catherine Park