Faces From the Streets of St. Petersburg

Sveta studied psychology but works as a private English teacher for school-aged children. She spends her free time helping her boyfriend, a street musician, collect money from pedestrians.





Photographer Todd Prince was born in Brooklyn, New York but later moved to Russia to work as a journalist and then a banker.



He has pursued his interest in photography since 2009 with most of his work focusing on everyday life in Russia.



The Moscow Times has gathered together a collection of Todd's work from his St. Petersburg Street Portraits project, for which he photographed ordinary people that he met on the city's streets.



To see more photos from the St. Petersburg Street Portraits project, click here.

A local who claims to be a designer.

Artem, a civil engineering student, grew up in Crimea. He dreams of working on large-scale projects like skyscrapers.

Twenty-seven year old Sveta is a florist who loves black orchids.

"I am a pensioner just having some fun," says this Siberian-born street musician, aged 63. He said he had various jobs including serving on a submarine, mining coal and searching for gold in Yakutia.

Anatoly, a ballroom dancer nearing 80, watching amateurs practice their dancing skills. He hands out his business card to those that want lessons.

Sergei has spent his 24 years equally between three regions of Russia: Zabaikal, Kaliningrad and Leningrad. Sergei dances in the metro to earn money while finishing his economics degree. He dreams of becoming an MC.

Krasnoyarsk native Elvira studies architecture. She plans to stay in St. Petersburg after her studies as she sees little chance of work in her home town.

'I was born in a closed town on Kamchatka that you can't see on a map,' said Maxim, 27, who was raised in a military family. Maxim plays the bass for a group called Octopus Maiden.

Gaspar decided to charge people to pay for pictures with his rabbit after seeing other entrepreneurs running similar businesses with monkeys. He moved to St. Petersburg from the South Caucasus.

Natasha, 21, moved to St. Petersburg from the Urals to be with her boyfriend. A punk-rock fan, she dreams of becoming a respected tattoo artist.

Twins Vika and Alina, 17, not only have similar looks, but similar interests. Both want to become programmers and have spent the last three summers at IT-focused camps.

Emmi the dog was clearly frightened by the crowds on Nevsky, so her owner Alina, 19, picked her up to carry her.