St. Petersburg (dpa) – The Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin was a true son of St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city and former capital. “I love you, Peter’s creation,” he once wrote of his home ...
If you're visiting St. Petersburg in the summer, the Peterhof Palace & Garden is an absolute must-see. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peterhof was the brainchild and summer palace of Peter the Great.
The complex will be an 80,000-square-foot multifunctional culture and congress center encompassing a 1,600-seat concert hall, a 2,500-seat conference center and a multimedia studio. By David Morgan St ...
Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...
The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — This is Russia’s imperial city, where the Romanovs lived 200 years of extravagance. Evening shadows beneath a long, mustard-colored arcade conjure Raskolnikov’s tortured skulk ...