Morning run in St. Petersburg: jet lag meant that I was up at 5am, just in time to catch the sunrise over river Neva! (Swipe left to see all the scenes!!) Out of the Four Seasons, turning left passing the impressive St. Isaac's Cathedral, crossing the road onto Senate Square, passing the public library and the bronze statute of Peter the Great on horseback. Turn right and ran along the river bank. I was planning to cross one of the bridges but there was a Russian Navy festival last night. Now the warships were leaving and all the bridges were hoisted up to let the warships pass. Ran along until the Liteynyy Bridge which was lowered just in time for me to cross to the north shore of the river. Turning left to come back along the shore I crossed the Sampsoniyevskiy bridge. The famous battle cruiser Aurora was moored here. This was the battleship which fired the first shot across the river towards the Winter Palace which was the signal for the start of the Red October Revolution! Ran back to the south shore along the Troitskiy Bridge and continue pass Alexander Suvorov monument (a great Russian military commander) turning right into Millionnaya Street and then onto a completely empty (how often can you see that?) Palace Square with the Winter Palace where the famous Hermitage museum is now housed. Back to hotel is 9km only so I did another loop on Senate Square to make it 10km! #stpetersburg #jogger #jogging #running #russia