Dvortsoviy Most (Palace Bridge) over the Neva River in Saint Petersburg (Russia) painted by Anna Sokolova

I love thee, city of Peter's making;

I love thy harmonies austere, 

And Neva's sovran waters breaking 

Along her banks of granite sheer; 

Thy traceried iron gates; thy sparkling, 

Yet moouless, meditative gloom 

And thy transparent twilight darkling; 

And when I write within my room

And when I write within my room 

Or lampless, read--then, sunk in slumber, 

The empty thoroughfares, past number, 

Are piled, stand clear upon the night;

Excerpt from The Bronze Horseman

by Alexander Pushkin translated by Waclaw Lecnicki