Gilt and Glory

More gilding from St. Petersburg— I have to think half the world’s gold supply is slathered over the buildings and monuments.  This is part of the Admiralty, originally a fortress built by Peter the Great, now an Empire-style complex built in the early 19th century.

The weathervane atop the tower is in the shape of a warship.  Nabokov once wrote a story about the spire.

This photo was taken quite late at night, after 10pm, but during the White Nights the sunsets go on quite literally for hours— and the sunrises too, I imagine, though I was never up to see one.