Some film photos from the 1990s

I took these photos on film in the early 1990s, presumably in 1994. In that year the main character of my photos was my little son, I photographed the city less often. But I found some interesting photos when I went through the archives.

The top photo preserved the view of St. Isaac's Cathedral from a huge courtyard on Yakubovich Street. This view has not changed much. But the courtyard is completely renovated, the buildings are freshly painted and you will not find any barrels or incomprehensible metal structures there. The wood is gone, too. This yard had one little-known secret. You could enter the building, go up to the second floor, go to the next staircase, go downstairs and exit onto a parallel street. This passage is now closed.

This iron staircase leads to the second floor, to the artist's studio. The studio is separated from the large apartment, which is entered in the most ordinary way, from the entrance hall. A new entrance and staircase were made from what was available. A little booth upstairs was added a few years later to make life a little easier for the inhabitants of the workshop. It was difficult to get up the stairs in winter, they were blocked with snow and people had to climb the icy steps to enter the studio.

The courtyard on Pisarev Street. The staircase leading to the second floor had been destroyed not long before, and I hurried to take a picture to document at least its trace. But, surprisingly enough, the trail of stairs has not yet disappeared completely.