The Variotram article in Wikipedia describes the problems they had in Helsinki with these trams. A few months after I saw this tram, the same make turned up in Croydon.

I was reminded of these giants when I visited Washington, DC Union Station.

Called the Sea Canal, this looks like a lock with recesses for the gates

I think these were actors playing Grigori Rasputin and Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova but they were just sitting in a corner rather than putting themselves about to be photographed

The Adam fountain - I wonder where Eve learned hairdressing!

Mon Plesir Pavilion

They have dismantled socialism but the squirrels are still red

Sudden rainstorm

Russian entertainers

The sign says STOP but in Cyrillic letters

In winter the snow ploughs are out promptly. In summer the water carts ditto.

See Segway in centre of previous image. The only other time I have seen a Segway recently, albeit in a photo, was this also in Eastern Europe. Subsequently I saw them outside the White House.

Amrots Armenian restaurant, 176 Nevsky prospect

The few words you do see in English seem to be entirely prohibitions

Statue of Pushkin

Svetlana

This is Moskva, an icebreaker owned by Rosmorport a Russian Federal State Unitary Enterprise charged with the development of the Russian sea transport infrastructure. This being high summer she is back in the port where she was built - possibly in the same boatyard having a refit.

The marked channel extends miles out from the port

The Peterhof is somewhere hereabouts

Mole stretches south from Kronstadt with this gap closeable with massive gates