Jenn, Christen, ME PS. Awful photo!!
One of the FIRST communal buildings built in the Soviet Era
This building was just across from a factory. This area was known as Factory row, because both men and women were working. Hence the idea of communal living, making home life simpler (small living area=less to clean, and sharing the cooking between families).
This is the area, both park and building you can barely see, where the Bolsheviks celebrated their victory of overthrowing the Czar.
This building was originally built by Peter the Great as a nobleman school. Then Catherine the Great took over the palace, and it was converted into a nunnery. After the fall of the Czarist regime, it was used as a government building.
This statute is a representation of Stalin's regime, Stalin's purgatory. It is a really creepy looking statue.
Hermitage at Night. (About 2am)
Hermitage (Winter Palace)
One of the FIRST communal buildings built in the Soviet EraThis building was just across from a factory. This area was known as Factory row, because both men and women were working. Hence the idea of communal living, making home life simpler (small living area=less to clean, and sharing the cooking between families).
This is the area, both park and building you can barely see, where the Bolsheviks celebrated their victory of overthrowing the Czar.
This building was originally built by Peter the Great as a nobleman school. Then Catherine the Great took over the palace, and it was converted into a nunnery. After the fall of the Czarist regime, it was used as a government building. 
This statute is a representation of Stalin's regime, Stalin's purgatory. It is a really creepy looking statue.
Hermitage at Night. (About 2am)
Hermitage (Winter Palace)History of Peter and Paul Fortress
Opening of the Bridges.
At 2am, the bridges are lifted open so that oil ships can pass through St. Petersburg and bring the world oil. It costs $10,000 per day for the upkeep of the bridges.
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