📸 Egypt and Egyptian St. Petersburg
Very often on the Internet you can find the phrase "Egyptian St. Petersburg." This is because anywhere in the world except St. Petersburg you will not find such a large number of Egyptian elements in the architecture of the city. According to the "official history" this is all explained simply - it was a wave of Egyptomania that swept the highest society in all of Europe. Personally, I get the feeling that either the rich representatives of the "Egyptian race" lived in St. Petersburg and were allowed to install sphinxes, obelisks, and pyramids...