St. Petersburg, Russia

The name Peterhof means in Dutch "Peter's Court." This compound served as the Tsars' resident until the communist revolution in 1918. The...

The Pushkin House Museum is dedicated to the last few months of the great poet life that died in a dual at 37. The visitors get and audio...

This museum is housed in the last apartment of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, one of the most famous authors of Russia. The writer...

For telling the truth, I had no intention of visiting this museum. I wanted to see the Peter and Paul Fortress and happen to walk near...

Catherine the Great was a very popular Empress due to her efforts to improve ordinary people's lives. The statue stands here from 1873,...

Maxim Gorky was a famous writer in Russia. At first, he was very close to Lenin and the Socialist cause. Still, with time his criticism...

The Hermitage is the biggest museum in Russia and one of the most important art museums in the world. The vast collection of more than 3...

The Tsar Nicolay the 2nd approved the Muslims to build their Mosque right before Peter and Paul Fortress. The building took three years....

The Savior on the Spilled Blood Church is an outstanding church, one of the most known icons of St. Petersburg. It's an Orthodox church...

The siege of Leningrad (The communist name of St. Petersburg) lasted for two and a half years, during which 750,000 citizens of the city...

Gostiny Dvor is the old Russian term for a shopping center or indoor market. Those markets were trendy in the 19th-century Russian...

This State-owned museum is located next to Gorkovskaya Metro Station, on the southern shore of Petrogradskiy Island, just in front of...

Peter and Paul Fortress were built by Peter the Great in 1703 as a fortress for military defense. However, until 1924 the fort was...