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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:49 pm    Post subject: Please identify... Hello I'm just sorting out some of my photos. Can anyone please identify what this is in st. petersburg??? thanks!! http://bryanboy.typepad.com/photos/stpetersburg/117palacesquarenight.html
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uday WayToRussified Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 323	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:51 pm    Post subject: I could be wrong, but isn't that the winter palace?
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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:52 pm    Post subject: nope winter palace has several columns outside/opposite direction and i think it was green... lol
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uday WayToRussified Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 323	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:55 pm    Post subject: It looks very familiar... that building behind the hermitage?
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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:55 pm    Post subject: i think so... on palace square, yeah
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wu687 Lounge Lizard Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 199 Location: Victoria BC, Canada	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:37 pm    Post subject: It is the Glavnyi Shtab - General Staff Building , on the south side of Palace Square. Built to house the General Staff and the ministries of foreign affairs and finances. It is in two parts, with a monumental archs crossing ul Bolshaya Morskaya at the entrance to Palace Square.
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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:41 pm    Post subject: yay!!! thanks! i'll update my photo album later. i'm so sick of labelling "random _________ photo" the places etc that i don't know. LOL
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AliceFromMoscow WayToRussified Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 411	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:53 pm    Post subject: Nice pics
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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:03 pm    Post subject: thanks i really had a ball in moscow/spb. never in my life i thought i'd have so much fun. everyone was nice and friendly, genuine and sincere... taking care of me/protecting me from weird people lol. but let's face it, it's a superficial holiday to an extent because i only stayed on the "safe" places, went to do "safe" things... i want to see the "real" thing because russia is such a huge country. i will definitely come back. february. for a longer time.
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wu687 Lounge Lizard Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 199 Location: Victoria BC, Canada	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:27 pm    Post subject: Here is another photo of the building: http://community.webshots.com/photo/174352352/174355707yuidsd
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AliceFromMoscow WayToRussified Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 411	Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:40 pm    Post subject: lovely pic http://community.webshots.com/photo/172064095/172259750nOyDAC i've always liked rural Russia wow you have a lot of photos there...
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DennisF Lounge Lizard Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 97 Location: Texas	Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:23 am    Post subject: Thanks for the pictures! Thanks, guys. This is one of the things I had hoped to find when I joined this site. Great pics. I can hardly wait to see Russia with my own eyes. DennisF
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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:33 am    Post subject: Re: Thanks for the pictures! DennisF wrote: Thanks, guys. This is one of the things I had hoped to find when I joined this site. Great pics. I can hardly wait to see Russia with my own eyes. DennisF RUSSIA is AMAZING!!!!!!! either you love it or you don't. i'm sure you'll love it. i've got some other pics, moscow etc.... http://bryanboy.typepad.com
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uday WayToRussified Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 323	Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:42 am    Post subject: Nice pics, there's some hot totties (female totties) you've met over there
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bryanboy Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 90	Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:44 am    Post subject: uday wrote: Nice pics, there's some hot totties (female totties) you've met over there thanks i've made acquaintances with other prettier girls but i didn't take pictures of them cause i met them at clubs etc... and yes... a lot of them are like REALLY tall like 6 ft++ and skinny and model-like, it's scary! the ones i took pictures of are the people i always hang out with (aka friends)
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