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If you write about Russia, you must write about Matryoshka’s. Though St. Petersburg isn’t very much of a shopping city, the amount of Matryoshka’s you can choose from is humongous. I photographed these (unfortunately a bit blurry) in a shop called “Northwest” at the English Embankment (nice clean toilets! no pushy shopkeepers! ;-)), but bought mine at the Souvenir Market near the Church of the Saviour of the Spilled Blood (which by the way made it into my top 10 of most-intricate church names).

More about my Russian souvenirs soon, they are well worth writing about and I can’t wait to photograph them in a nice setting.