During last years you could notice the wonderful sight in the city celebrations – girls on stilts. They are easily seen in any crowd, and their grace and skill are truly adorable. They’ve got bright costumes and make-up, which create together the fantastic images of the butterflies and the flowers. For hours they’re walking among the gawkers,... More

This woman used to be the team mascot, the part of the soul of FC Zenit. It’s Sofia Iosifovna Aranovich. Unfortunately, she passed away at night on May, 17th in 2006, at the age of 91. Stadium “Petrovsky” has honored her with a minute of silence. She’s been a fan of “Zenit” since 1934, when the Leningrad team used to be called “Stalinets”. Sofia... More

The museum is situated over there in the third floor, but you already see the photographs when you are going upstairs. There’s a working photo studio, where you can have a picture of you wearing an old costume. The museum consists of the exhibitions of the old pictures of the end of XIX – the beginning of XX centuries, photo portraits, and also... More

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It’s strange, but traffic lights in Petersburg burns down in the heart shape. There’s another version. A group of vandals paints hearts on the lights, and not only the hearts, weeds as well, it looks not bad on the green glass)) Painting on traffic lights is something new. The photos were done in February 2011.   More

Here is the way the houses' walls are painted in one of the yards of Krasnogvardeyskiy district More

While the «Xs» are already on this site, I will enlarge it with an Irish pub at Vasileostrovskaya. It is creatively designed, but unfortunately there is no information on the pub's web site about the authors and the history of its idea. More

An unusual letter on the house’s sign plate. More

These graffiti I discovered accidentally last autumn. It was bright colours for my gray rainy day, and it was a chance to cheer up. I took a picture a little later, in sunny weather. And the cars near the wall still hinder the full review... I really want to meet the auhtor of this! More

Hurrah, Videli-quest, of which the sight-seeing lovers were dreaming for so long time, has finally taken place! The winners have been announced and almost all of them have already got their prizes. Tomorrow all the cards will be totally shown. Now just a short report on the event and several photos. On the first photo there is the final episode of the... More

The effect of the house-wall on the corner of Dvortsovaya square and the embankment of the Moyka river is widely known. Looking from the specific perspective, the sharp angle of the General Staff Building makes an effect of the "empty wall" which does not have anything behind. It is surprising, but there is one another place with such an effect.... More

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No doubt, everyone knows about flat concerts of Soviet period, when such "among oneselves" concerts were the most faithful means to get out a message to a listener. No any special technique or preparation, often "raw" songs and verses... Visiting the flat concerts of BG (Boris Grebenschikov), Visotsky, Mayk Naumenko is an unrealized... More

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