St. Petersburg: Russia's Second City

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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