Today I continue in search of Gorksii’s St Petersburg. It is also my first day shooting. To test my methods, I set out to The Summer Garden, a place steeped in late-imperial Russian history: it was here, in 1866, that an assassination attempt was made on Tsar Alexander II. A quarter of a century earlier, Pushkin had chosen the garden for Evgenii Onegin’s childhood walks. Nearly two centuries on, the place feels like the ideal spot to test out my equipment. There is an abundance of light and the hedge rows provide a good degree of privacy. After a short while, I am asked to move on by a couple of guards – it seems using a tripod in the gardens is not permitted. I manage to get one image, however. Here it is (processed August 2016).
