ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, SUMMER 1993

Begging from a tourist in Palace Square

A workman taking a break in front of the Cathedral of the Spilt Blood

Borodin's grave

Tchaikovsky's grave

They look ever so dainty - they are in fact the MALE ballet and they are hilarious

A boat on the Neva. In summer the bridges open at night to let big ships through

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Gardening at the dacha. Many families in Russian cities built themselves modest dachas in the Soviet era to grow fruit and vegetables and keep chickens. Later New Russians built themselves multistorey villas complete with saunas and elaborate security systems - this wasn't one of them