Global Food Tour

Chapter 349 Quiet amidst the hustle and bustle!
Zhang Feng went out early the next morning. Petersburg was bathed in sunshine and rain. One side of the city was bright, while the other side was cold.

We walked along the wet streets of Petersburg to the Neva River.Thick clouds blocked the light, and the wind blew fiercely.On the other side of the Neva River are Petersburg's Vasily Island, Petrograd and Vyborg.It is these various areas divided by the Neva River that together form Petersburg.Among the scenery on the other side, the most eye-catching one is of course the Peter and Paul Fortress with its towering spire. It was here that Peter the Great began the story of today's Petersburg.

Looking at the wide river on the cool windy river, boats are still coming and going.

From time to time, the sun poked out from the thick dark clouds, giving the earth a little warmth.

Zhang Feng passed a bridge over the Neva River and found that the opposite bank was Vasily Island. Vasily Island, including Decembrist Island and its subsidiary island Iwo Jima, is the largest island located at the mouth of the Neva River. An important part of the Neva Delta.The northeast of Vasily Island faces Petrograd Island across the Small Neva River, the southeast faces part of the mainland city of St. Petersburg across the Great Neva River, and the north is connected to the Decembrist Island through the Smolenka Canal , west and southwest of Neva Bay.

Zhang Feng discovered that this is actually an excellent perspective for looking at the Winter Palace from a distance, and the photos he took are very scenic.

Crossing back to the Winter Palace from the bridge again, Zhang Feng did not intend to enter and visit, but walked around the exquisite and gorgeous palace and walked towards the rear.

Petersburg is full of such atmospheric and exquisite buildings, and these classical Baroque styles have built an extremely gorgeous Petersburg.This is different from Moscow. Since the Soviet Union moved to Moscow in the early days, the Soviet Union did not leave too many traces in this city.

Kazan Cathedral = Church is a tall and magnificent building located in a prominent position on Nevsky Avenue.The neoclassical cathedral, modeled in part on St. Peter's in Rome, was commissioned by Tsar Paul.The church has two 111-meter-long wall colonnades, stretching out to the Nevsky Avenue in front of the door.Surrounding gardens dotted with sculptures.

The interior of the church is relatively dim, with a traditional Eastern Orthodox style, and a tall 80-meter dome, which makes it look particularly small.There are many believers lined up in a long queue here, waiting to kiss the icon of Our Lady of Kazan. It is a copy of the most important icon in Russia.

It feels like this is a living church.

The so-called living ones are those that are still in use, not churches just for tourists to visit.Incense = fire still continues under the majestic stone bricks, and the soul of Russia is still multiplying here.

Petersburg in the afternoon is still stingy with every ray of sunshine, and it is rarely bright, but more often it is cold under the cover of dark clouds.

The Church on Spilled Blood is probably the most famous church in Petersburg.The elegant appearance decorated with mosaics and mysterious legends have become the most unique among countless churches in Russia.

On March 1881, 3, Alexander II rode in a carriage to sign a decree, announcing the reorganization of the State Council and starting the political reform process of the Russian monarchy.When his carriage passed the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, he was assassinated by extremists of the "People's Will Party".The first bomb thrown by an anarchist injures Alexander II's guards and coachman. Regardless of dissuasion from left and right, Alexander II insisted on getting out of the car to check the injuries of the guards. As a result, the second bomb thrown by the assassin The bomb exploded at his feet, and Alexander II's legs were blown off. He was sent back to the Winter Palace and died of ineffective medical treatment a few hours later.

In 1883 AD, Tsar Alexander III, the son of Alexander II, built this church at the place where his father was assassinated in memory of his father.

In 1907 AD, the main body of the church was completed. It was modeled on St. Basil's Cathedral on Moscow's Red Square, with a delicate and beautiful appearance.

In the hundreds of years that followed, the Church on Spilled Blood once again witnessed every detail of the Russian storm.

The Church on Spilled Blood fully embodies the Russian style, so the architect Balland built this church based on the Basil Ascension Cathedral on Moscow's Red Square.The artistic design inspiration for the appearance of the church mainly comes from the architectural style of the Yaraslavsky Railway Station in Moscow and the Church of Vasily Ascension on Red Square.The specific architectural structure of the church as a whole comes from the idea of ​​the abbot, High Priest Ignazii.According to legend, the high priest Ignazii showed the design blueprint of this future church in his sleep. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on September 1883, 9.After 14 years of construction, it was officially completed on August 24, 1907, and the grand opening ceremony was held by Nicholas II. The country = political leaders and the emperor's relatives = relatives were invited to watch the ceremony.

The interior of the Church of the Resurrection is filled with mosaics based on stories from the Old Testament.Compared with Basil's Ascension Cathedral, its appearance is more beautiful and vivid.The church on the Spilled Blood has colorful onion heads, which reflects the typical Russian Orthodox church architectural style of the [-]th and [-]th centuries.The church has a beautiful outline and colorful decorations, which are in sharp contrast to the old Russian style and the nearby classical buildings.

After walking out of the Church of the Spilled Blood, Zhang Feng walked along the streets of Petersburg that were sometimes full of sunshine and sometimes bitterly cold. He was sweeping the streets casually and freely, looking forward to the scenery at the next intersection anytime and anywhere.

The bustling traffic and crowds on Nevsky Prospekt, a painter who finds peace in the hustle and bustle.

Zhang Feng crossed from the noisy Nevsky Prospekt to a small street that cannot be named, and drove from the hustle and bustle to the tranquility, Zhang Feng felt as if he was looking at another world.

The statue of Mr. Pushkin stood upright among the green trees, and the rare afterglow illuminated the bronze statue dazzlingly. Behind Zhang Feng was the Mikhailovsky Theater that he had already visited.

The temperature is still shuttled between the sun and the cool wind. This city is huge, and you can see countless majestic and exquisite buildings growing on the banks of the Neva River.Warmth and yearning are naturally the most subjective judgments, but they all originate from the surface of this gorgeous city.

In fact, Zhang Feng has been entangled in the itinerary in Petersburg. The final decision is to abandon Vyborg and go to Veliky Novgorod, an ancient city 200 kilometers away from Petersburg.But Zhang Feng really made a decision only the night before departure.

That night, Zhang Feng met a Russian boy in the hotel and talked a lot. He told Zhang Feng that he was an English teacher from Moscow, but he loved St. Petersburg very much, and he would come back here every once in a while.This is not his hometown, but it is better than his hometown.

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