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Bordered by the Fontanka to the west, Nevsky prospekt to the south, and the Neva to the north and east, Chernishevskaya is an area of wide tree-lined avenues, foreign consulates, and parks. Very close...
The furthest of the great out-of-town estates from the city, Gatchina palace was a gift from Catherine the Great to the love of her life, Prince Grigory Orlov.Orlov never moved in during his lifetime,...
This is where most visitors will spend most of their time during a visit to St Petersburg, and it's not hard to see why. Fanning out from Palace Square, where the Hermitage museum is housed in the for...
You won't find Kronstadt mentioned in any Soviet-era guidebooks as for many years it was closed to all except military personnel. It lies in the middle of the Gulf of Finland, visible from Repino on t...
Also known as Oranienbaum (after the Palace of the same name), this is a small town with the furthest west of the palaces lining the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, and remains little visited b...
The islands lying to the north of Petrogradskaya provide green areas and a breathing space to the city, and are full of elite houses.Elagin and Krestovsky islands are a great place to escape to w...
Another beautiful out-of-town palace and estate, this one was built on land gifted by his mother Catherine the Great for Tsar Paul (hence the name - Pavel in Russian) by Scottish architect Charles Cam...
Most visitors to St Petersburg do make it out to Peterhof to see the spectacular Peterhof Museum and Estate, built by Peter the Great as a summer residence on the edge of the Gulf of Finland, and from...
This is where it all began, when Peter created a stronghold on the site of an earlier Swedish fort which was later to become the St Peter and Paul Fortress. There is plenty to see and do in the fortre...
If you're arriving at Pulkovo and coming by road into the center of the city, then this is the first immediately recognizable district of the city you'll come to. There are few must see sights in this...
When the summer heat gets too oppressive, and the crowds of tourists moving slowly down Nevsky start to get on fraying nerves, this is the place Petersburgers come to relax and take in some bracing se...
Introduction "He stood on the banks of the deserted waters, full of profound thoughts, and stared into the distance". And this is how, according to Russia’s greatest poet Aleksa...
If you're expecting a simple list of 10 sites you can tear around during a long weekend in St Petersburg and report back to your friends that you've "been there, done that", then you're going to have ...
Most visitors to the city pass through Strelna at such a rush that they remain unaware of the Konstantinovksy Palace and its parkland, the first of the out-of-town palaces lying to the west of th...
It may lack the fountains of Peterhof, but the palaces and estates of Tsarskoe Selo (or Pushkin as it was known during the Soviet period) are still likely to overwhelm with their scale and opulence. T...
A short walk over Palace Bridge from the top of Nevsky prospekt will bring you to Vasilievsky ostrov ("Basil's Island", regularly abbreviated to "VO"), and one of the earliest part...
Covering an area lying south and west of Nevsky prospekt, Vosstaniya stretches from the Neva river and Aleksandr Nevsky monastery in the east, all the way over to the industrial docks and ship-buildin...
The land lying on the north and east banks of the Neva river, Vyborgskaya will be your point of arrival if coming on the Allegro train from Helsinki.Finlandsky station was the scene of Lenin's triumph...
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