2015 – On Tiffany Creek

I arrived to St. Petersburg by ferry, from Helsinki, in 2015. I was scared. The ferry was Russian. I made a few Russian friends working in food service. We exchanged social media contact, but they disappeared from my radar when I got back to the U.S.A. Perplexing!

I took the featured photo at the time of my visit. The three: a young man in a red shirt, a woman in a dress, with a black bag, and a woman in pants, and a jean jacket, carrying a white plastic bag, are disengaged with each other, except they walk side by side. Could it be Mama, Grandma and Grandson? Possibly! Are they Russian? I thought so at the time. The man in the background taking a picture adds a touch of interest.

After a thought provoking trip, I made it back to Helsinki. The ferry didn’t gobble me up, but delivered me safely from one shore to the other, and back again. I do wonder though, whatever happened to my Russian friends from the ferry?

The Alexander Nevsky Monastery is located in St. Petersburg, Russia. The surrounding grounds contain four sections of cemeteries and is an extensive compound of open spaces with broken crosses, areas with impressive funerary sculptures, a section for academics, writers and intellectuals, and a section for Communists. The monastery is named for the Medieval prince, Alexander Nevsky a Russian hero who lived from 1221 to 1263. Nevsky was canonized a Saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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