A 'walrus' going for a dip -- in November  | 
     
       The Winter Palace and Palace Square -- peopled by tourists and ghosts  | 
  
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       Pushkin loses his teapot - probably to be found in the basement of the Russian Museum behind  | 
  
Detail of the railings of the not-so-summery Summer Gardens  | 
     
       The Art Nouveau railings of the Mikhailovsky Gardens - cast from aluminium at a time when it was more costly than gold...  | 
  
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       That'll be the Summer Garden  | 
     
       
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Wibbly-wobbly boat ride on a canal  | 
    Trying the knot St Pete's style at the 'Bronze Horseman' statue  | 
  
Atlantes holding up an entrance to the Hermintage Museum  | 
     
       I liked this sign - it's for the Circus or Tsirk  |