Statue of Three Graces in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Replicas of ancient art in Gallery of History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
Mosaic paintings on walls of Church of Savior on Blood. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 25, 2009
Ayvazovsky painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Painted ceiling of the Great Hall of Catherine Palace in Pushkin, former Tsarskoe Selo, suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, December 17, 2005
Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
G. I. Semiradsky painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
Painted plafond of Saint Isaac Cathedral. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 26, 2009
Ivan Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
Sculptures in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
Vaults of the gallery of Raphael Loggias decorated with biblical paintings in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
Ivanov(?) painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 1, 2005
Looking at C. Brullov(?) painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Marble sculpture in a gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
Marble statue of a woman with a skull in a gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
Marble sculptures in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
Painting on plaster in a replica of Raphael Loggias in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2015
Marble sculpture in Gallery of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2014
Person painting Slavianka River and Khram Druzhby (Friendship Temple) in Pavlovsk Park. Pavlovsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 11, 2009
Marble sculpture of a woman in Gallery of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2014
Paintings and windows of Church of Savior on Blood. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 2, 2013
Close up of tricolor, or painted daisy (Chrysanthemum carinatum) in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 22, 2013
I. Repin paintings in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 15, 2016
Paintings of pink rotunda in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 2, 2016
Tourists crowding in front of painting of Rembrandt "Return of the Prodigal Son" in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
Paintings of Church of Savior on Blood. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 2, 2013
Gallery of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2018
Tapestry painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 16, 2016
Ilya Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Arched ceiling of Gallery of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2014
Painting Teacher (2015) by Porfiry Fedorin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
A marble sculpture of three women in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Petersburg, Russia, September 3, 2013
Equestrian paintings in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 16, 2016
A hall in Russian Museum, with A. E. Yakovlev and V. I. Shukhaev painting "Harlequin and Piero" to the left. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
I. Repin s paintings in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
C. Brullov s paintings in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
Illegible purple painting in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 23, 2009
Fragment of a painting (Nicolaes Maes, Old woman spinning, c. 1658) in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2011
Ornamental paintings of Small Synagogue in the back yard of Grand Choral Synagogue. Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 6, 2016
Staring at Malevich "Black Square" painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2004
"A Poet s Alphabet: Heresie Infini" painting (1995 - 2002) by Yury Zharkikh in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Woman s head on a painting of Giampietrino "The repented Magdalene" in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
Repin painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 8, 2016
G. I. Semiradsky painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 11, 2012
Brown house with peeling paint on Serpukhovskaya Street in Sementsy area near Vitebsky Train Station. Petersburg, Russia, September 2, 2013
Painting of pine forest in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 11, 2012
Painting "Metro. Escalator" (1985) by Aron Zinshtein in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting of a man in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
C. Brullov(?) painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 11, 2012
Paintings of C. Brullov in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
Details of a woman s head on a painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
A decommissioned industrial steel fuel storage tank rests along auxiliary railway spurs near a former Soviet military supply depot west of Toksovo, Leningrad Oblast, photographed in September 2000. Boldly hand-painted with a warning deterring scrap-metal scavengers - "Do not take! Private property, guarded!" alongside a St. Petersburg telephone number - the salvaged petroleum reservoir, complete with its intact service ladder, inspection platform, and breather valve, illustrates the turbulent post-Soviet liquidation and commercial repurposing of army assets. 10 miles north from Sankt Petersburg. Russia, September 27, 2000
Painting of iris flowers in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 23, 2009
A. E. Yakovlev and V. I. Shukhaev painting "Harlequin and Piero" in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
Kandinsky s paintings in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 11, 2012
Painting of Antoine Watteau "Savoyard with a marmot" in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2011
Visitors of Russian Museum in front of Vasnetsov(?) painting. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 26, 2011
Paintings of Malevich in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 13, 2007
Weathered paint on a tombstone in Lutheran Cemetery on Citadel Road in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 4, 2010
Tourists staring on Raphael(?) paintings in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2015
Wall painting in a Christian Orthodox church in Konevets Island in Ladozhskoe Lake, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 8, 2002
This monument in the inner courtyard of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Saint Petersburg marks the grave of Alexander Alexeyevich Kapteltsev (1895-1933), who headed Leningrad[CloseCurlyQuote]s Criminal Investigation Department (:0423:0433:043e:043b:043e:0432:043d:044b:0439 :0440:043e:0437:044b:0441:043a) under the OGPU from 1929 until his death. The burial site belongs to the historic Communist Section (:041a:043e:043c:043c:0443:043d:0438:0441:0442:0438:0447:0435:0441:043a:0430:044f :043f:043b:043e:0449:0430:0434:043a:0430), a cemetery created in 1917-1919 directly before Holy Trinity Cathedral that Bolshevik authorities repurposed into an elite pantheon for prominent revolutionaries, secret police officials, military commanders, and Soviet intellectuals within the grounds of an Orthodox monastery . The obelisk of dark polished stone features an inset bas-relief portrait in lighter composite showing Kapteltsev in an early Soviet service tunic (gymnastyorka) bearing the badge of an Honorary Worker of the VChK-OGPU on his chest. Beneath it sits a light stone nameplate where the word :041f:043e:043b:043a:043e:0432:043d:0438:043a (Colonel) appears faintly above his surname--a later addition or informal epitaph, given that personal military ranks were not formally restored in the Soviet Union until 1935, two years after his demise. Decades of northern weathering and moisture have streaked the dark stone and partially eroded the painted lettering of the plaque. The subject[CloseCurlyQuote]s striking resemblance to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is purely accidental, resulting from natural facial physiognomy combined with period aesthetics. Kapteltsev s full features, prominent double chin, close-cropped military haircut, and buttoned high-collar collar uniform closely echo the contemporary silhouette, tailored dress, and iconic grooming associated with North Korea s supreme leadership. Russia, November 25, 2016
Wall decoration in Gallery of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2018
A gate of Christian Orthodox monastery on Konevets Island in Ladozhskoe Lake, with a Russian inscription "Close gate firmly. Draught destroys the painting". North from Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 8, 2002
This monument marks Mass Grave No. 7 of three power workers - Sergey Yakovlevich Vasilyev, Sergey Ivanovich Vshivtsev, and Alexander Mikhailovich Babanov . As recorded on the marble epitaph plaque mounted on the concrete base, the men perished on July 24, 1935, in a fatal industrial electrical accident at Leningrad s 5th State District Power Plant (:0413:042d:0421-5, later Krasny Oktyabr) during the First and Second Five-Year Plans aggressive electrification drive . Enclosed by black looped-iron railings against golden foliage, the memorial features a painted steel scale replica of a high-voltage transmission pylon (:043e:043f:043e:0440:0430 :041b:042d:041f) with crossarms and ceramic suspension insulators . The constructivist design reflects early Soviet funerary culture, which substituted traditional crosses with the industrial artifacts of a worker[CloseCurlyQuote]s vocation, transforming state electrification and technological sacrifice into sacred proletarian memory within the monastery courtyard. Communist section of Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 18, 2016
Green paint on a cut branch of mountain ash tree in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, March 23, 2017
Painting Devils and the City of Mutants (2012 - 2018) by Alexander Alkhovsky in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
A head in a painting Devils and the City of Mutants (2012 - 2018) by Alexander Alkhovsky in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Fragment of a painting Devils and the City of Mutants (2012 - 2018) by Alexander Alkhovsky in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Detail of a painting Melancholy at the Shore (2013) by Nikolay Rybakov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting The Eucharist (2001) by Sergey Bakin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting Pioneer Bonfire (1966) by Evgeny Savrasov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting Fairwell of Slavianka (2006) by Konstantin Khudyakov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting Football (1986) by Aron Zinshtein in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Paroxism painting (1993) by Alexander Zagoskin in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Andrey Filippov "Rome to Rome" (2016) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Paintings in a room in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Modern painting Triumphal Arch (1999) by Valeriy Lukka in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov Vernicle (2006) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov "Carnival" (1988) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov "Feast in Time of Plague" (1980 - 1982) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov "Leapfrog, from the Russian Game Series" (1989) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting Repairing Broken Surface by Yuriy Nikiforov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Alexander Kosenkov "Red-cap Mushrooms" (2018) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting by Damir Krivenko "Hacker" (2018) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Head on a painting by Damir Krivenko "Hacker" (2018) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting Self-Portrait (2009) by Tatiana Tulicheva in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting "Red-Blue" (2018) by Igor Mikailenko in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Fragment of a modern colorful painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Painting "Sheikh and Burqa (2008) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
Fragment of a painting "Selfportrait of Tsvirkunov" in a hallway in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment with a smile on a painting Self-portrait by Yuriy Tatyanin on a hallway in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a digital painting "The nature of the golden age" by Adam Martinakis in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Paintings of Adam Martinakis in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
A painting "The inevitability of time" by Adam Martinakis in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Modern installation with Ivan Shishkin painting Rye Fields in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Modern painting with portraits of Soviet leaders in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Installation by Mikhail Kazakov "Overseas" with paintings Odisseya and Lovtsy in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Modern paintings in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Blue and purple paintings in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Exhibition Impaired Consciousness with paintings of Aleksey Semichev and Andrey Kuzmin "Dance" and "Music" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Painting "Circus Parade" by Justus Jager in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a painting by Yury Zharkikh "A Poet s Alphabet: Heresie Infini"(?) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Paintings of Aleksandr Kosenkov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
A hall with modern paintings in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Painting by Andrey Filippov Rome to the Rome and similar art in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Red and black fragment of a painting by Yury Zharkikh in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Red and blue fragment of a painting by Yury Zharkikh in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Texture a painting by Yury Zharkikh in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Some modern paintings in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Art installation by Andrey Filippov Last Supper and a painting by Aleksey Bazanov Protivostoyaniye (Opposition) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a painting by Vyacheslav Mikhailov "Feast in Time of Plague" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a painting by Sergey Babkin "Smolenka River" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Part of a building on some unclear painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of some multicolored painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a painting by Evgeniy Barsky "Star s Matter" from a triptych in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a painting by Evgeniy Barsky "Star s Matter" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a multicolored painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Painting of Feliks Volosenkov "Appearance of a god Volos in a form of emerging cosmos" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Fragment of a painting by Vyacheslav Mikhaylov "Chekharda" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
Swirly painting on a sphere by Igor Ryazantsev (Rene Reza) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Head of a woman on a painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting Buddies by Yuriy Sherov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Woman with a pole on a painting Opposition by Aleksey Bazanov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Men with fists on a painting Opposition by Aleksey Bazanov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Sloppily done painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Fragment of a painting "Carnival" by Vyacheslav Mikhailov (1988) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Belly of a man(?) on a painting "Feast at the Time of Plague" by Vyacheslav Mikhailov (1990) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting "A poet s alphabet" by Yury Zharkikh (1995-2002) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Black and red curves on a painting "A poet s alphabet" by Yury Zharkikh (1995-2002) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Red and blue shapes on a painting "A poet s alphabet" by Yury Zharkikh (1995-2002) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting Devils and the City of Mutants (2012 - 2018) by Alexander Alkhovsky in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting "Next" by Viktor Gryaznov (2002) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Sculpture "Flesh of the Flesh" by Alexander Rukavishnikov and a painting "Russians are coming II" by Anatoliy Gankevich in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Drinking buddies in a garden on a painting by Yuriy Sherov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Woman with flowers in front of Lenin s monument on a painting by Yuriy Sherov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting "Fountain" by Yuriy Sherov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting "Grocery Shop Familiar" by Yuriy Sherov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting "St. Petersburg. The Moyka" by Ilya Komov (2023) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Red and black cows on a painting in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Self-Portrait painting by Sergey Pasukhin (2014) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Self-Portrait painting by Vladimir Comelfo (2009) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting "Self-Portrait" by Felix Volosenkov (2008) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Paintings for sale in a gift shop in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
Painting by Igor Ryazantsev (Rene Reza) made from colored filaments in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
A detail from "The Last Day of Pompeii" by Karl Brullov (1833) showing the central tragedy of the painting in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2025
A close-up detail from the left-middle section of a huge painting "Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis" (1889) by Henryk Siemiradzki (Polish/Russian, 1843-1902) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2025
Detail from a painting "The Brazen Serpent" (1841) by Fyodor Bruni (1799-1875) showing the head of a bearded man in agony in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2025
Painting Bayan (1910) by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) showing a legendary Slavic bard (a "Bayan") playing the gusli (a traditional string instrument) to a group of warriors on a hilltop, in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2025
Painting "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" (1888) by Vasily Polenov (1844-1927) (the right side of the canvas, where the angry crowd, bearded men in robes, is dragging or presenting the frightened woman) in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2025
Glacial erratic (a large granite boulder) left behind by the retreating Scandinavian Ice Sheet over 11,000 years ago. The inscription ":041d:0415:0422 :0412:041e:0419:041d:0415" (pronounced Net Voyne), meaning "NO TO THE WAR," is a direct political protest against the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Activists often paint this slogan in forests, on snow, on frozen rivers, or in elevators to avoid CCTV cameras and police patrols found in city centers. This stone serves as a quiet but firm artifact of internal resistance, standing in the silent forest just kilometers from the station and the dacha community. Kannelyarvi, north from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 1, 2025
View from the Slavyanka valley showing the mastery of Pietro Gonzaga s "landscape painting" technique. Pavlovsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2025
An old transformer substation in Lanskoy Garden on Sampsonievsky Prospekt near Lanskaya train Station. This corner can be described as a striking example of urban decay juxtaposed with natural harmony. The scene captures a raw, "wabi-sabi" beauty--an appreciation for things that are imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. The Wall: The brickwork is rough, weathered, and tactile. The peeling paint and chipped bricks tell a story of age and neglect. The layers of torn posters add a "trash collage" effect (reminiscent of decollage art), creating a chaotic, man-made texture that feels gritty and transient. The Ground: In stark contrast, the ground is covered in a soft, organic carpet of fallen maple leaves. This natural texture is random but harmonious, softening the harsh lines of the brick building. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 9, 2025
An old transformer substation in Lanskoy Garden on Sampsonievsky Prospekt near Lanskaya train Station. This view of its brick wall focuses entirely on the gritty, tactile reality of the city--where every surface is a battleground between human attempts to cover things up (paint, posters) and nature s tendency to strip them back down (peeling, tearing, weathering). Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 9, 2025
One of the Small Chinese Bridges (Small Iron Bridges) crossing the Krestovy Canal. Originally wooden (1781), they were replaced with cast iron versions forged at the Sestroretsk Arms Factory in 1786. Designed by Charles Cameron, who also planned the nearby Chinese Village. The bridge features intricate iron lattice railings and is framed by distinctive porticoes formed of paired columns with "Chinese-style" curved sheet-iron roofs. The columns are painted to mimic colored marble, and the structure was fully restored in the 21st century. Aleksandrovsky (Alexander) Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 10, 2025
Monochromatic texture, moving away from high contrast to explore the subtle variations within a single color range. The scene is dominated by a spectrum of yellows, from the pale ochre of the birch leaves to the deep amber of the maples, creating a "wall of gold" that feels immersive and enclosing. The overlapping layers of foliage--dense understory merging into the mid-canopy--eliminate the sky, focusing the viewer entirely on the intricate, lace-like pattern of the leaves against the dark vertical trunks. The reflection in the water breaks these details into impressionistic strokes, blurring the line between the real trees and their mirrored image, much like a watercolor painting where forms dissolve into light and color. Aleksandrovsky (Alexander) Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 10, 2025
Wild, impressionistic beauty of Alexander Park s naturalistic sections. The image is dominated by the rough, dark bark of mature oaks (likely Quercus robur) in the foreground, which contrasts sharply with the soft, hazy backdrop of golden maples and underbrush. The dense layering of vegetation--from the grassy forest floor to the tangled mid-story shrubs (like hazel or dogwood) and the towering canopy--creates a sense of enclosure and depth, reminiscent of a Levitan landscape painting. The scene captures the full richness of the "Golden Autumn," where the vibrant yellows and russets of the foliage seem to glow from within the forest, creating a warm, immersive atmosphere despite the overcast sky. Aleksandrovsky (Alexander) Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 10, 2025
Leuchtenberg Palace, designed by architect Andrei Stackenschneider and completed in 1842. The facade reflects the Late Classicism style (resembling a Roman villa), characterized by a grand portico with Corinthian columns, symmetrical window arrangements, and a pediment that gives the structure a noble, temple-like appearance. The palace s yellow stucco walls show signs of weathering and peeling paint, contributing to the estate s romantic, slightly melancholic atmosphere of a "forgotten" royal residence. The palace is situated on a terrace overlooking the Gulf of Finland, with its color palette harmonizing with the surrounding golden autumn foliage, reinforcing the seamless blend of architecture and nature intended by its designers. Sergievka Park, Old Peterhof, west from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 13, 2025
Vyacheslav Mikhailov[CloseCurlyQuote]s Feast at the Time of Plague (1980-1982), painted in oil and levkas on fiberboard, turns a gathering around a table into a spectral scene of distorted bodies and barely recognizable faces. In this detail, pale figures bend, stretch, and merge with their surroundings, their contours picked out in muted turquoise and lilac against brown, ochre, and black. The thick, cracked surface resembles an excavated wall painting, giving the gathering an atmosphere of decay rather than celebration. Read against the title, the figures[CloseCurlyQuote] ambiguous gestures suggest a fragile persistence of human company in the presence of death. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
In this fragment of Vyacheslav Mikhailov[CloseCurlyQuote]s Carnival (1988), a grotesque face emerges from folds of amber, bronze, and smoky green, its uneven eyes and open mouth suggesting a mask caught between laughter and a grimace. Glossy ridges, bead-like protrusions, and pitted hollows give the painted surface an almost sculptural depth, contrasting with the coarse, dark ground. A pale, elongated hand crosses the lower foreground, reinforcing the figure[CloseCurlyQuote]s theatrical gesture. The molten-looking features turn carnival disguise into something unsettling: the mask seems to merge with the flesh beneath it. Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
A mannequin in a protective hazmat suit using a roller extension to paint over a reproduction of Ivan Shishkin s famous 1878 classical landscape painting, Rye (or Rye Fields) on a modern installation "Art is Toxic" in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
An abstraction of sunflowers on a painting by Maxim Morgunov, titled "Living Matter", in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
Oil painting titled "Night at the River Moika" (<<:041d:043e:0447:044c :043d:0430 :041c:043e:0439:043a:0435>>, 2005) by the artist Andrey Neganov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
Geometric, cubist-style painting titled "Evening Shift" (<<:0412:0435:0447:0435:0440:043d:044f:044f :0441:043c:0435:043d:0430>>) by a non-conformist artist Nikolai Vikulov (:041d:0438:043a:043e:043b:0430:0439 :0412:0438:043a:0443:043b:043e:0432, b. 1937) in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
Gallery hall displaying a series of satirical and playful contemporary works. On the right wall is the monumental satirical painting titled "The Overseas Guest" (<<:0417:0430:043c:043e:0440:0441:043a:0438:0439 :0433:043e:0441:0442:044c>>, 2007) by Nikolai Kopeikin. Positioned in the center is a whimsical sculpture by Dima PZh (Dmitry Zhukov) depicting a nude, stylized human character casually riding or reclining along the back of a large Great White Shark. in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
Detailed crop from the naive-expressionist painting titled "The Mikhailovsky Garden" (<<:041c:0438:0445:0430:0439:043b:043e:0432:0441:043a:0438:0439 :0441:0430:0434:0438:043a>>, 1994) by the artist Artur Molev in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
Expressive painting titled "Pilate s Court" or "Judgement of Pilate" (<<:0421:0443:0434 :041f:0438:043b:0430:0442:0430>>, 2007) by the Tula-born contemporary artist Ivan Sakhnenko in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2026
Wide-angle view of the Raphael Hall (:0420:0430:0444:0430:044d:043b:0435:0432:0441:043a:0438:0439 :043a:043e:0440:0438:0434:043e:0440 / :0420:0430:0444:0430:044d:043b:0435:0432:0441:043a:0430:044f :043a:043e:043c:043d:0430:0442:0430), showcasing its walls heavily lined with multi-tiered mirrors and rectangular painted panels depicting classical figures, in Zubov Wing of the Catherine Palace. Tsarskoe selo near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 6, 2026
