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Admiralteyskiy II - Saint Isaac's Square

Kim Sunwoo

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"Bow down in worship, humble and alone,
bow lowly down before the sacred sight
of man's Divinity alive in stone"

- Claude McKay (about Saint Isaac's Cathedral)

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15/5/1941 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievskiy Sobor) before the war. It's dome made of pure gold rises 100 metres over Leningrad. In front of the building the gardens of Saint Isaac's Square honour the Soviet hammer and sickle. To the right of the picture we see the famous Hotel Astoria, and to the South, Nicholas I stands his endless watch from his bronze horse.

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Barrage balloons were grounded and transported during the day and rised during the night. Their obective was to damage enemy aircraft or at least difficult their approach to the key city targets.

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To prevent starvation the gardens of Saint Isaac's Square now provide cabbage and other vegetables for the people. In the picture we see two women collecting the crops and a soldier examinating the product.

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27/7/1941 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievskiy Sobor) during the war. The golden dome is being painted in grey to avoid attracting attention from enemy aircraft. Three barrage balloons are being taken South from the embankment. A plantation of cabbage and a lookout have taken the place of the gardens. Hotel Astoria is serving as a hospital, and the equestrian statue of Nicholas I has been camouflaged with boards.

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Two heavy anti-aircraft guns guarding the approach to Saint Isaac's Square in one of the most famous pictures of the war.

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22/5/1942 - At the other side of the Blue Bridge, the widest bridge in the world, sits Mariinsky Palace. Several Red Army soldiers and a T-34 tank protect the entrance to the building.

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Disclaimer: This CJ includes original photos taken during the siege. To my knowledge none of them is protected by copyright, but if I were wrong I'm happy to delete any picture that infringes the law.

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You can't imagine how much I enjoyed working and documenting this update. I'm happy with the result, but please feel free to comment with your impressions. Just curious, do you preffer the pacific scene or the war scene? :)

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You do such a nice job tweaking pictures to get just the right effect to make it work so well! Keep it up!!

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Great scenes from the SC4 Leningrad. To be honest I like all your war scenes, though the Pacific war scene may have a slight edge to the Leningrad war scenes because it is brighter.

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Simply amazing! From the pictures to the editing to the composition superb work!

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Updates like this demonstrate that impossible is nothing when dealing with SC4!

 

BTW, I prefer the war scene! 

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Absolutely amazing. The way you tell the story and create all the custom content to go with it is flawless. Some really really nice work here.

 

Cheers

 

James

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Your work is simply flawless and we would love to see some pacific scene mate whatever you are gonna present us it's gonna be beautiful we know that so don't worry do what you want :D !

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I ike the cathedarl , one of my favourties worldwide! I like your war scenes, altough what I enjoy most are the buildings ;) . thanks for your job, friend! ;)

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Awesome work, Comrade!

 

Interestingly, in the photograph with the barrage balloons, we can see on the left side of the photo the columns of the severely Teutonic façade of the former Imperial German Embassy, which sat on St. Isaac's Square opposite from the Hotel Astoria, and which was stormed and torched by angry Russian mobs in the tsarist capital at the outbreak of World War I.  Missing from the building in the photo is the rooftop Castor and Pollux sculpture, which had a profile similar to the Quadriga atop Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, and which the mob pulled down and supposedly dumped into the river.  Afterwards, with the Soviet capital relocated back to Moscow, the Kaiser's old embassy became a consulate for Nazi Germany, and I would not be surprised if it got stormed yet again at the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.  Wiki tells us that at the time of the siege, the Red Army also had another hospital inside the former German embassy.

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wow! fantastic images ! I love the intersection between the avenue and the one way. on this cj there much work, also on game, the cathedral, and everything. The history is interesting, and the form that you show us is genial. The colour give a touch very from the 40, good ambientation. The trucks and the canyons are on the game? or what, are very well!! Really i like so much your CJ and i believe that i'm not the only jaja. Bye and thanks for your words in my Cj too **+1 and 5 stars**

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I just took a quick look on Google earth since I was curious about the church & bridge and I have to say the degree of accuracy in your reproduction is nothing less then astonishing. Of course your not just replicating a place but a period in time too, something you've managed to capture just as well.

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Another simply delightful entry my dear Sun! This is probably my favorite entry of them all...I love that dual tone type of effect, with the red mixing with black and that little hint of green...Just very well done as well as being very inspirational.

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This is amazing!

I love your 'before and after' pictures. For a game made to build modern cities, those pictures are amazingly realistic!

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Wow, it is obvious that you put time and effort into this.  I love the history lesson, it was fascinating.  As for the war vs. peace images, can I dodge the question and say I think that they're both sensational?

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