St. Petersburg Features

St. Petersburg Features

• Top Reasons to Go to St. Petersburg
  

  The State Hermitage Museum: The pearl of the world's historical and art collections, you can see everything from works by Monet, Picasso, and... read more

• Southern Suburbs
  

  Park Inn Pulkovskaya. The attractive, Scandinavian-design interior of this hotel is in decent condition, thanks to renovations for the city's... read more

• Eclectic
  

  Aquarel. With three stories of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Vasilievsky Island's Rostral Columns and Stock Exchange, this flashy restaurant-boat... read more

• St. Petersburg's Mini-Hotels
  

  During the Bolshevik Revolution many of the city center's lavish mansions where appropriated from their owners and divided into communal apartments... read more

• Getting Caught with Your Bridges Up
  

  St. Petersburg's mighty Neva River creates some of its most picturesque views, making it easy to forget that it is a working river and transport... read more

• The Peacock Clock
  

  The Peacock Clock (Tchasy Pavlin), one of the most delightful pieces on display at the State Hermitage Museum, is found in the Pavilion Hall... read more

• The Fate of Rembrandt's Danaë
  

  One of the most celebrated of Rembrandt's works, and among the most beautiful examples of European painting, the Danaë was almost irreparably... read more

• St. Petersburg in Literature
  

  "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July, a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though... read more

• Rasputin: Faith Healer or Antichrist?
  

  Neither a monk nor a priest as commonly believed, Rasputin was a wandering peasant who eventually came to exert great power over Nicholas II... read more

• White Nights
  

  St. Petersburg is located at 59 degrees north latitude, roughly the same latitude as Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; and Anchorage, Alaska... read more

• Vodka: A Taste of Russia
  

  The national drink is an inseparable part of Russian social life. Vodka is drunk everywhere, with the intention of breaking down inhibitions... read more