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St Petersburg, Russian Federation, September 2003 (3q07)

Down town near the Nevsky Prospekt metro station. I'm looking north in the direction of the Neva along the Gribodaev Canal at the Cathedral on the Spilled Blood. Its also in the background of "Bank Bridge" [link] which is about a half kilometer behind where i was standing to take this image.

Built in the late 1800s/early 1900s at the location where a Tsar (Alexander I?) had been assassinated, the cathedral is not currently a working church.

Taken around 3 am (?) after a birthday party in the country and a night out in town... we just left a bar thats in the buildings to the left... Mike & Ken headed back to catch one of the bridges while it was down and go home... i went off to wander and take pictures at night...

Bit of a surprise that so many of the shots on this film turned out as well as they did, as it was only my second time doing night shooting, I had no tripod, and there may have been some tippling prior to that point...

ok... one minor correction when i scanned this... the original image is skewed at a 10 degree angle. It had nothing to do with the comestion of potent potables - the railing i set the camera on was peaked with that angle.

See also "Russian Mourning" [link] and "Empire Worship" [link]


** update 2007-05-02 - submitted to :iconnight-shots: [link] **

** 2010-04-16 - added links **
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Photo is awesome,but title is wrong,good translation from russian is "Salvation on blood".Btw Im inhabitant of Saint-Petersburg.