St. Petersburg: Russia's Second City

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - The Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - Fishing on the Neva River in front of the Winter Palace

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - St. Isaac's Cathedral

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - The Kazan Cathedral

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - A bridge across the Neva and the Peter and Paul Fortress

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - The Mariinsky Palace, home to the city's Legislative Assembly

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - A statue at the base of a lighthouse on the tip of Vasiliyevsky Island

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - Fishing on the Neva with the Peter and Paul Fortress in the background

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - The cruiser "Aurora," which shelled the Winter Palace during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - The spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress

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Photo: Alexander Belenky, "The St. Petersburg Times" - The frozen Neva River and a bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress