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this panorama will radically change after construction of scraper cluster that is being planned (Okhta center)
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Talking St. Pete

St. Petersburg is beautiful! I enjoyed looking at your great pictures!
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Inasmuch as Prussia has been colonized by Germany - yes. St. Petersburg has been started with mainly Dutch/German influences and later got significant contributions from French/Italian architects. Czars wanted capital with European feel, particlularly its founder Peter the Great, Catherine II the Great (of German origin) and Pavel (big fan of German/ Prussian customs). Authentic Russian architecture is engraved in its mostly German fabric.
Well, Prussia is (part of) Germany. Prussia and Russia are completely different places. But yes, I had heard that the Tsar sought to "Europeanize" Russia and this is why he built the new capital of St. Petersburg and invited Germans to settle. So the similar appearance isn't surprising, I just haven't had the opportunity to visit and see it for myself.
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Well, Prussia is (part of) Germany. Prussia and Russia are completely different places. But yes, I had heard that the Tsar sought to "Europeanize" Russia and this is why he built the new capital of St. Petersburg and invited Germans to settle. So the similar appearance isn't surprising, I just haven't had the opportunity to visit and see it for myself.
Well, Prussia does not exist anymore. Eastern part is absorbed by Poland and Russia, and Western part does not exist as a state. Today at least, it is only a part of Germany's past, although we can never be sure about future.

I do not doubt that Prussia was part of Germany and never suggested that Prussia and Russia were the same thing or place.

I just do not have a good feel for how Prussian architechture is different from Bavarian, Saxon or Austrian (all of them German to me in a greater sense), so to me a lot of St Petersburg architechture looks German but not specifically Prussian. Maybe it is Prussian after all.
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I just do not have a good feel for how Prussian architechture is different from Bavarian, Saxon or Austrian (all of them German to me in a greater sense), so to me a lot of St Petersburg architechture looks German but not specifically Prussian. Maybe it is Prussian after all.
Ahh, well there were certainly regional differences in architecture and still are today, just as northern & southern Italy don't look the same and villages in Normandy look quite different from villages in Provence.

Anyway, nice photos. I'd love to visit some day but haven't made it that far east. Need to do my Baltic Sea tour...
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You can t see hear world famous palaces,cathedrals and parks of this splendid city. I d like to show non touristic,regular districts of S Petersburg. Historical districts with buildings of 18-19 cent is placed on tremendous territory -about 100 km2 !! Population of S Petersburg in 1914 was about 2000000 .Dozens fine streets and avenues is out of center city and touristics roots.Many of this local avenues could be prowd of central part of any first class city .

Start from Petrogradka -North district of S Peterburg -this is "new" part of city ,most buildings dated 1850-1900 years





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Naval Academy - big building dated 1930-40

Crossing the canal and we are in district built in 1930-1950 .About 6-7 km from center of city :









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