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© Stéphane Compoint
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Aerial view of the historical center of the city and of the Neva. In the
foreground, from left to right: the Admiralty, the Hermitage and the Winter Palace, Palace Square and the Alexandre Column, general army headquarters, the Moïka Canal and the Church of our Savior on Spilled Blood. In the middle, from left to right: the Strelka(the tip) of Vassilievski island with the Academy of Sciences, the Kounskamera, the Marine Museum, the Rostral Columns, the Peter and Paul Fortress with the cathedral of the same name. In the background, Petrograd, the city's first neighborhood founded in 1703.
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