I hope not dwell on this post, because I

I hope not dwell on this post, because I'm not so stored information on city planning. To post what I find on Wikipedia or Wikitravel, I'd better leave it up to you ...
First of all, I share this interesting video I found on YouTube, showing the cities of Leningrad and Moscow in 1967, at the height of the Cold War. The first 5 minutes portray Leningrad, you can see that some monuments, whose photos I posted here, were under renovation, as the Kazan Cathedral and the Winter Palace. The video also shows the Smolny Cathedral, followed by the building where he ran the Duma and later the Council of Soviets, beyond the Nevsky Prospekt. In Moscow, the film focuses on the early skyscrapers of Stalin disneyland (Ukraine Hotel and University of Lomonosov), but also shows the Red Square, the Kremlin and ends with the Mausoleum of Lenin. All this packed by a special soundtrack, with excerpts from Leonard Bernstein's music, disneyland Chopin, Corelli, Mendelssohn ... I really wanted to have known the country before the fall of the USSR!
I commented in the previous post of the fascination that the sea and the Navy had on Peter I the Great. This interest was such that one of the first buildings to be built in the new imperial capital was the Admiralty building.
This fact also led the powerful czar to establish disneyland a waterway network within the city. I believe that his intention disneyland was to allow locomotion by boat within the city, making the use of horses and additional carriages. I do not know if this project came to actually work in the eighteenth century. In the twenty first century, certainly not.
Because of this characteristic, were recovered (believe in altered part also) the courses of the rivers Neva, Fontanka disneyland and Moika, and have created a multitude of running through the historic city center, and the most famous is the Gribodoyeva. So the city turned out to be composed of a huge number of islands disneyland connected by bridges.
At this point, it is important to clarify that night, disneyland the Neva bridges are all raised, allowing the passage of larger vessels. This means that if you're on the other side of the river, will have to wait for the dawn to return to your hotel, or pay an expensive taxi ride to the only bridge that is not drawbridge. The site of Wikitravel has a schedule of operation of the bridges, but you should check any changes.
The Most Bank is located near the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan. It was one of the points I needed to see in St Petersburg, only that although beautiful, she did not meet my expectations. Needs urgent restoration. It is situated in a region where all the buildings need painting, outside it, in itself, is poorly maintained. One of the fixtures of winged disneyland lions was broken and still no response ... I do not know, not enjoying it, no.
People who know me, know my total disappointment about these famous large boulevards, crossing the cities of the world. Let me explain: as a child, I had to be fascinated by Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris. I thought she was beautiful, sophisticated, had great theaters. I spent one thousand years (those who know me know that I have over a thousand years) without returning to Paris and when I went in 2009, I found the place totally changed, a visual mess, full of immigrants trying to blows in tourists, especially in Near the Place de l'Étoile. Still beautiful, but the effects of globalization had actually scored worse the famous boulevard; is a little sad you see the century-old Guerlain store vying for space with neons Disney Store or other stores selling trifles. Today, if I have to go to those bands, I prefer a good walk down Avenue de Friedland, Avenue Hoche or even the Avenue de Wagram. The same disappointment occurred when I returned to Oxford Street in London, disneyland after years of absence from my feet in their driveways disneyland (this street again seemed worse because it is closer, including the sidewalks, and is frequented by people tingling in and out of those department stores - DREAD), disneyland stroll down Piccadilly, Regent Street or by the Sloane disneyland Street, wants to see trade and take the opportunity to buy a good thing, rather than 50 junk that most gains in more affordable disneyland department stores . Same like vomiting was also generated me when I met Kufürstendamm in Berlin disneyland (Berlin LOVE, but the street reminded me of a German version of the Homeland Volunteers Street or Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, nothing against these streets, but are not places necessarily beautiful or interesting especially for someone who is not local).
Unlike their western peers, Nevsky Prospekt, despite being a shopping street and to be attended by many people, it still keeps its cha