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Credits: Photographs, research and writing by Vanessa Knauf
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Guide to St. Petersburg Venice is sinking and so is St. Petersburg, but as long as this beautiful Russian city is still afloat, it’s worth visiting. For 9 months I have been living in a large soviet-style apartment building in the suburbs of Moscow, where I teach English. In May I finally got some time off and took the opportunity to visit St. Petersburg. When I arrived I wondered if I’d gotten on the wrong train and ended up in Western Europe, but then I saw that all the signs were still in Russian.
St. Petersburg does not feel like Russia, but like a movie set with European architecture, palaces and canals. At the end of “Nevsky Prospect,” Nikolai Gogol writes, “Nevsky Prospect deceives at all hours of the day, but the worst time of all is at night... when the devil himself is abroad, kindling the street-lamps with one purpose only: to show everything in a false light." Perhaps the devil is at work in this enchanting city, but his magic creates the perfect escape for any tourist and allows one to leave reality and sink into another world.
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