Soviet heritage

A photo walk across different districts of Saint Petersburg based on usage of mirrors of different shapes and sizes. By placing them in different places and choosing the proper angle of shoot, we’ll catch urban textures, patterns and oddities...

St Petersburg was founded as “a window on the West”, but throughout three centuries of its turbulent history it became truly Russian city, that has shared joys and sorrows, wins and loses with the rest of Russia...

The Soviet building works of the 1920s was something that amazed foreigners: it was hard to believe that after enduring the civil war the Russians would begin building a “brave, new world” using architectural forms never witnessed before in a style known as “constructivism”...

This tour is useful for getting unique gifts and souvenirs that are different from the matryoshka dolls sold at big touristy stores and markets.