1. "Welcome to St. Petersburg," said a voice over the intercom.

2. The beauty of St. Petersburg will impress even the most jaded tourist.

3. The distance between St. Petersburg and Moscow is 593 miles.

4. Welcome to St. Petersburg, a voice crackled over the intercom.

5. St. Petersburg had become Petrograd in 1914.

6. The aristocratic Russian capital St. Petersburg became the next centre of ballet.

7. Sergei Ivanov, 26, a St. Petersburg resident, lost his job a month ago after the leasing company he worked for went bankrupt.

8. You'll see, too, why St. Petersburg is called a " floating city. ".

9. In addition to overseeing the daily operations of St. Petersburg.

10. In 1992 it becomes "St. Petersburg Clothing Fabric" Close Joint-Stock Company.

11. St. petersburg is the second largest city of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea.

12. Russian soldiers, sailors, and civilians listen to a speech by Rodzianko in the Catherine Hall of the Tauride Palace, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), during the October phase of the Russian Revolution.

13. Russia's Catherine II transformed St. Petersburg into an unparalleled collection of Neoclassical buildings as advanced as any contemporary French and English work.

14. Peter the Great had to start from scratch when he built St. Petersburg.

15. The valet de chambre announced M. de Villefort at the moment when the count, leaning over a large table, was tracing on a map the route from St. Petersburg to China.

16. An English Bulldog dressed is readied or for a dog show in St. Petersburg, Russia.

17. In this July 24, 2008 file photo, sunbathers watch Russian marines training for Navy Day, on a beach of the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia.

18. DOUG JOHNSON: Our story begins at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia on December eighteenth, eighteen ninety-two.

19. It is proposed by Von Neumann and Morgenstern ( 1947 ) who succeed Bernoulli to answer the St. Petersburg paradox.

20. People look at fountains on the Neva River in central St. Petersburg August 11, 2006.

21. TUESDAY afternoon came, and waned to the twilight. The village of St. Petersburg still mourned.

22. After the emancipation of the serfs by Alexander II in 1861, medical academies in St. Petersburg began admitting women.

23. Characters dressed in period costumes pose with tourists in front of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

24. An artist displays his wares along the banks of the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia.

25. "In November, the Mistral helicopter carrier will arrive on a visit to St. Petersburg, " the first deputy chief of the Navy general staff, Oleg Burtsev, told the news agency.

26. Tanned skin had become a fashionable accessory, and beachside sunning booths, like this solarium in St. Petersburg, Florida, touted the healthful effects of the sun.

27. Old, run - down Soviet Leningrad, they said, was not the St. Petersburg of 19 th - century.

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28. Two women take a rest from viewing paintings Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

29. On the morning of the 8 th, President Jiang Zemin visited Pushkin House in St. Petersburg.

30. Among the properties to be completed next year are ones in Marrakech, Morocco, and St. Petersburg.

31. He had seen her once more that evening in St. Petersburg.

32. On the morning of May 31, 2003, Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who came to St. Petersburg for celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the city.

33. They've played the world over, from London's Barbican Centre to the Jazz Philharmonie in St. Petersburg.

34. Wildflowers add color to a dacha, or country home, in Mandrogy, between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

35. An artist displays his along the banks of the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia.

36. The St. Petersburg resident lassoed the African rock python out of the toilet, under the watchful eyes of his wife and three-year-old daughter, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

37. Mr. Zhukov invited President Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, to United Russia's convention, in November in St. Petersburg.

38. So thought every harassed , hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.

39. The Nevsky Prospekt, the'Champs Elysees'of St. Petersburg, became its main avenue in 1738.

40. Nearly 100 of the over 130 people injured in the fire were sent to Russia's top hospitals in Moscow,[ ] St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk in the Urals.

41. St. Petersburg. The very name brings to mind some of Russia's greatest poets, writerscomposers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky.

42. An obvious example is the art of Russian artist Marc Chagall. Chagall was from Vitebsk, a small village far from cosmopolitan St. Petersburg. When he grew up he went to the city, seeking knowledge.

43. Finally, in 1862, he enrolled at the new St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music established by Anton Rubenstein.