St. Petersburg
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We’ve compiled the best of the best in St. Petersburg - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
The word lavra in Russian is reserved for a monastery of the highest order, of which there are just four in all of Russia and Ukraine. Named...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe first building in Sankt-Piter-Burkh, as the city was then called, was erected in just one year, between 1703 and 1704, during the Great...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe grandly proportioned St. Isaac's is the world's third-largest domed cathedral and the first monument you see of the city if you arrive by...Read More
Leonardo's Benois Madonna, Rembrandt's Danaë, Matisse's The Dance ... one of the world's most famous museums is virtually wallpapered with...Read More
In 1898 Nicholas II turned the stupendously majestic neoclassical Mikhailovsky Palace (Mikhailovsky Dvorets) into what has become one of the...Read More
This bit of land (the name means "arrow" or "spit") affords a dazzling view of the Winter Palace and the Peter and Paul Fortress and reveals...Read More
With its 1,001 rooms swathed in malachite, jasper, agate, and gilded mirrors, the residence of Russia's rulers from Catherine the Great (1762...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThis historic cruiser, moored in front of the Nakhimov Academy of Naval Officers and reopening in the summer of 2014 after an extensive restoration...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe spire of this lovely golden-yellow building is visible throughout the city and is one of St. Petersburg's most renowned emblems. The first...Read More
The 156-foot-tall centerpiece of Ploschad Dvortsovaya (Palace Square) is a memorial to Russia's victory over Napoléon, commissioned in 1830...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesAfter fighting a duel to defend his wife's honor, the beloved Russian poet Alexander Pushkin died in a rented apartment in this building on...Read More
Each corner of this beautiful bridge on the Nevsky Prospekt spanning the Fontanka River (the name means "fountain") bears an equestrian statue...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe famous St. Petersburg poet lived for many years in a communal apartment in a wing of this former palace of Count Sheremetyev. Akhmatova...Read More
You can't miss St. Petersburg's main army museum—just look for the hundreds of pieces of artillery on the grounds outside. Exhibits have a distinctly...Read More
This fine example of Russian baroque is painted bright azure with white trim and stands out from the surrounding classically designed architecture...Read More
The highly ornate, old-Russian style of this colorful church seems more Moscow than St. Petersburg, where the architecture is generally more...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThe city hall under the tsars has a notable red-and-white clock tower, meant to resemble those in Western European cities and erected by Ferrari...Read More
This is where you'll find Petersburgers engaged in one of their favorite pursuits: buying books. The city's largest bookstore, which offers...Read More
Two of St. Petersburg's more magnificent landmarks stand on the landing in front of the Repin Institute, leading down to the Neva. These twin...Read More
Costumes, crafts, and other artifacts provide a look at the various ethnic groups of the former Soviet Union. If you're traveling with kids...Read More
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