Places to Explore

• The Admiralteisky and Vasilievsky Island

  The Admiralteisky is the area just west of the City Center. It is centered around the famous golden-yellow Admiralteistvo, or Admiralty building. This neighborhood is also home to Decembrists' Square, the... (more)

• City Center: Palace Square and the Hermitage

  The best place to get acquainted with St. Petersburg is the elegant Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, or Palace Square. Its scale alone can hardly fail to impress—the square's great Winter Palace was constructed... (more)

• From the Square of the Arts to the Field of Mars

  This area introduces you to some of St. Petersburg's prettiest inner streets, squares, and gardens, starting at Ploshchad Iskusstv (Square of the Arts). Along the route are several squares and buildings... (more)

• The Petrograd Side

  St. Petersburg was born in the battles of the Northern Wars with Sweden, and it was in this area, on Hare Island (Zayachy Ostrov), that it all began: in 1703 Peter laid the foundation of the first fortress... (more)

• Upper Nevsky Prospekt and Vladimirskaya (Lower Nevsky Prospekt)

  "There is nothing finer than Nevsky prospekt, not in St. Petersburg at any rate, for in St. Petersburg it is everything …" wrote the great Russian author Nikolai Gogol more than 150 years ago. Today... (more)