Horseman Doll

Horseman Doll

The Paris of the East

St Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. The designated capital of Imperial Russia from 1712 to 1914 and has remained the countrys cultural capital. It is Russia's second largest city and the country's principal seaport.

It is often referred to as the Venice of the North or the Paris of the East. The city centre is set on the south bank of the Neva river.

Modern St Petersburg has no shortage of restaurants, and plenty of variety. Aside from traditional Russian restaurants, Chinese and Japanese cuisine is popular, with sushi a recent craze

St Petersburg has a vibrant, varied nightlife ranging from opera and ballet to nightclubs, rock concerts, jazz clubs, and acid house raves. How ever, the scene is constantly changing with new venues opening and old ones closing. Most of the decent night life is in the city centre.

The local currency is the ruble. The market near the Spilled Blood Cathedral offers every thing from matrioshka dolls to hand-painted lacquer boxes in a wide range of quality and prices.

The main square of St Petersburg is one of the world's most magnificent plazas. Palace Square contains the picturesque Baroque buildings of the Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum on one side and the Classical yellow and white former General Staff buildings of the Russian army on the other. The main point of the square is the Alexander Column, a tall monolith of red granite topped by a cross and the statue of an angel, dedicated to the Russian military victory in the Napoleonic wars. Palace Square has been the site of numerous political protests, most notably the demonstrations of Bloody Sunday in 1905 that started the first Russian Revolution. Today the square, with the views of the Admiralty's golden spire and the dome of St Isaac's Cathedral from across the vast stone paving, is filled with markets, outdoor cafes and the sound of horse-drawn carriages.

The Bronze Horseman, on Senatskaia Ploschad Square, facing the Neva River and surrounded by the Admiralty, St Isaac's Cathedral. The monument was built by order of the Empress Catherine the Great as a tribute to her famous predecessor on the Russian throne, Peter the Great. According to a 19th century legend, enemy forces will never take St. Petersburg while the Bronze Horseman stands in the middle of the city. During the Second World War the statue was not taken down, but was protected with sand bags and a wooden shelter.

About the Author

Douglas Scott works and writes for Car Rentals in St Petersburgh Russia, and is a free lance writer.

HI! I want people who know about scary things!!!?

Well..i ♥ scary things...here are some things i'm asking for
1. a website with real scary stories that people post..REAL SCARY...thanks :]
2. Scary Legends. "the headless horseman isnt scary"..again ones like scary doll legends i've heard of if you you do this at night then this will happen..that kinda stuff :]
3. AND are there any books that have many series of different scary stores...or about legends...ummm...like different stories in one books or an author that does many SCARY STORIES
PLEASE!!! THANKS...BOOKS WEBSITES....THANK YOU :] ♥

welll you can go on bored.com, and then look for your #1 thing there cuz i'm pretty sure they have stuff like that on there somewhere, along with a death calculator and it tells you your date of death and how many seconds you have til you die and stuff.

well, i doubt they still have it, but my friend got a video somehow (it was real..not imitation ones, right after it happened) of sadam hussein or whatever his name was getting hung, and he said he peed himself watching it, haha.

and...look up myspace bulliten scary chainletters, there's one i could tell you but idk the whole thing correctly....i'll try to get a link.
here's some:

http://forums.bluedistortion.com/viewtopic.php?t=3251

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061001080412AAyif0H

http://moronland.net/moronia/moron/318/

http://chainletters.net/chainletters/scream-chain-letter/ (look around on this site..they have a few)

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm514699.html

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