Hermitage Museum
by DEY
Hermitage Museum - I did the cruise ship visit to St Petersburg last month. We visted Catherine's Palace in Pushkin first in the morning so we arrived to the Hermitage in the afternoon. The cruise ships have tour guides so the cruise ship visitors do not wait in the ticket lines.
Most cruise ships stop running the Northern Europe route the end of September so there will be fewer tourists as that point.
As fas as I am aware, there is only one ticket for the whole main Hermitage museum. The additional buildings across the river would be a separate cost. The beauty of the buildings. Restoration has done a great job.
Be ready to spend lots of time there! I want to go back in the winter where I can spend alot more time on my own.
St.Isaacs cathedral
by yellowstar
what I remebered about this cathedral is again that when it was built some workers had to prepare the roof with quicksilver. Quicksilver makes golden roofs shiny for a long time. Two weeks later they died because they were intoxicated by the quicksilver...
Not a nice memory - I know, but it shows how little a man's life was worth compared to the desire to show-off of a king's, tsar's or government's power by that time.
However, the cathedral is definitely worth entering. It was constructed by a French architect and has very nice paintings in the ceiling, the world's largest door made of wood, etc.
Dvorzovaya Embankment
by bugulma
Between Troizky and Dvorzovy Bridges is laid Dvorzovaya Embankment. I think it is the only street in the world where several palaces were built in the line, including famous Hermitage. The best point to see it is a wall of Petropavlovskaya Fortress in my opinion.
Be ready for the weather
by emilienoelle
St. Petersburg is very far to the North and because of this it never gets really warm there, even in the summer. Our guide told us that they always have to be careful of frost even in the main growing season. It also rains here quite a bit, almost every day, so be sure to keep these things in mind when packing.
Peterhof in winter
by Upstate1NY
Peterhof has an array of large gravity feed fountains supplied by a large resoviour across the street, behind the cathedral. There is no waste of energy except the lights at night. Tthe water flows naturally without help. Due to the time of year, the whole "system" was shut down, but the fixtures remained in place. LIttle inmagination is needed to mentally see the water flowing with the fountains gushing forth in their fluid display.
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Interior Peter and Paul Cathedral
Center of the chapel
peter the great
Another of many lavish rooms
