Snow-covered sphinxes (englishrussia.com)
Published: 10 September, 2007, 07:58
Sphinx in St. Petersburg
Not many people know that the most northern Egyptian sphinxes in the world are in St. Petersburg. In 1820, the Russian government bought a few sphinxes from Egypt and brought them to decorate the banks of the Neva River. This is probably the only place in
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