The dandelion, lanterns, snowmen and other urban sculptures

Greetings friends, today I decided to compile photos taken during different walks into one post. They were different days, and different circumstances. Sometimes I wasn't in the mood to take photos and I was just walking, but something unusual interested me so much that I stopped and took some photos. Other times I was in a hurry to run errands, but still slowed down for a brief moment to take a picture. Sometimes there was no time, sometimes there was no mood, sometimes there was no good weather - in general, all these photos did not fit into a logical and unhurried narrative, they remained short fragments. But each of these short memories seems interesting to me in its own way, and I decided to combine them into one post.

Let's start with the dandelion! That is the name of this sculpture, installed in front of the facade of the Young Spectator Theatre. This unusual flower attracts attention, passers-by often stop here, walking in the park near the theatre. The author of the art object is sculptor Grigory Pototsky. The dandelion is a symbol of kindness and peace. I asked google for details about this sculpture and learnt that this dandelion is part of a big project of the Academy of Kindness. Similar flowers have been installed in thirty countries around the world.

Next, let's go to a small garden on the corner of Stremyannaya Street and Dmitrovsky Lane. This garden is called Dmitrovsky, but it used to be more commonly called "elf's garden". In the neighbouring house there was a cafe Elf, and the name of the cafe easily spread to the garden too.

A homemade pole indicates directions and distances to informal landmarks of the 1970s - 1980s. The Rock Club, John Lennon's Temple of Love, Peace and Music, rock musician Viktor Tsoi's boiler room, the iconic rock shop, and popular meeting places. No one had a phone in his pocket, the place and time of the meeting had to be agreed in advance!

Next we are transported through space and time to find ourselves in the queue for the concert. Here I photographed the lanterns in the garden. The black and white oddly shaped figures are lanterns, they were installed not so long ago, during the reconstruction. At the same time I got another sign of the times - scooters.

The snowman and the moose are not sculptures, but decorations. I was passing by the service entrance to the Mariinsky Theatre and I couldn't simply pass by without photographing this wonderful group. The Mariinsky Theatre is not only opera and ballet, it is also art workshops, which were founded by a special decree of Emperor Alexander II in 1874.

The last site in my story is a very unusual monument. I met this visual teaching aid for biology in Pavlovsk. The cut of the tree is covered with a translucent plate, the text tells about the life of the tree and some events of world history that the tree witnessed.

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Smartphone	Google Pixel 3a
Location	Saint Petersburg, Russia