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Red Square/Kremlin Moscow
161 Reviews The 70 m (230 ft) high Saviour Tower is the most magnificent of the Kremlin towers, the very symbol and emblem of Moscow. From time immemorial it has been the principal entrance to the Kremlin. The...
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Canals and Rivers Saint Petersburg
38 Reviews Why not have a boat trip along the city canals and rivers, which will allow you to see the buildings from different angles and to enjoy the city sites - the splendid samples of the old Russian...
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Battle of Stallingrad Volgograd
13 Reviews The main statue of the complex is Mother Homeland Statue. It is situated on the so name Point 102 (Mamaev Kurgan is 102 meters high). The statue is 85 meters high (the figure 52 meters and the sword...
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Streets of Moscow Moscow
42 Reviews The wide street Kutuzovskiy Prospekt used to be a prestigious residential area for very important people of the Soviet Union. The building at number 26 was known as the Politbuero block, where...
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Museums Saint Petersburg
26 Reviews 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...
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The Volga Embankment Volgograd
5 Reviews Volgograd is great at May. It is bright, green and clean. Unfortunately internet could not transmit smells of spring flowers and blooming trees. Chestnuts, lilacs and bird cherry trees - a must...
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Monuments & Buildings Moscow
43 Reviews Yury Nikulin was the great movie artist and clown in soviet time. He was like a a breath of fresh air... "I always believed that those circus people who compel others to burst out laughing are the...
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Personal Observations Saint Petersburg
46 Reviews St. Petersburg is a wonderful city, but I suggest that you go there either with a group, or go on your own if you know Russian. There are no English signs and it is really difficult to move around if...
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General impressions Moscow
73 Reviews Moscow is well worth seeing by night. So a stroll through the city centre of Moscow in darkness is highly recommended. Not only the illuminated red stars on the top of the Kremlin Towers look...
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Architecture Saint Petersburg
40 Reviews St. Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, so it celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2003. The tsars employed the best architects and artists from Western Europe to build St....
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Other places to see Moscow
44 Reviews The nearest vicinities of the Red Square, including Manezhnaya Square are the places most attended by Muscovites for the last four centuries. In XV century in the old Moscow here lived...
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Monuments Saint Petersburg
22 Reviews Our first stop where we got out to take pictures was along the river at what the guide said were lighthouses (there were two) but which the travel literature called Rostrums. Apparently several times...
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Moscow Metro Moscow
18 Reviews Moscow's metro was inaugurated in 1935 and since then the network grew to 11 lines and covers a distance of about 300 km. Many of the stations from Soviet times are fine examples of socialist realism...
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Cathedrals and Churches Saint Petersburg
57 Reviews One of impressive buildings of Saint Petersburg is Isakievsky Cathedral. It is well seen from Neva River and is situated not far from the monument to Peter I (the Copper rider). In XVIII century on...
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Cathedrals & Monasteries Moscow
40 Reviews This impressive structure isn't that old. Rumor has it that it used to be a very nice swimming pool until just a few years ago. The interior is extremely well decorated, and the crypt houses quite a...
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Weather Saint Petersburg
8 Reviews St. Petersburg gets all four seasons, sometimes a bit unpredictably. The long days of white nights in June do not mean it will be always warm, carry a sweater and umbrella! It can rain most any time...
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Parks/Estates Moscow
13 Reviews The park was completed in 1995 to celebrate the 50-th anniversary of the Soviet Union's World War Two victory. The park itself is laid out around a grand fountain-lined axis with a huge white...
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St.Peter and St.Paul's Fortress Saint Petersburg
15 Reviews The church in the St. Peter and Paul Fortress (Petropavlovskaya Krepost) is where all the tsars and their wives are buried although what structures that show in the church are not really the tombs...
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Parks and Squares Saint Petersburg
25 Reviews In the northern part of the park there are a lot of sculptures, it is real open air museum. I heard that almost a half of it is originals of XIX century. Besides, there is a monument to the famous...
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City Environs Saint Petersburg
13 Reviews For the early birds: come to Peterhof before 9 a.m. and enter the Lower Garden free of charge. That is what I do. I love the nature and solitude. Have some seeds and feed the squirrels. They switch...
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Bridges Saint Petersburg
13 Reviews Troizky Bridge was open in 1903, to 200 years anniversary of the city. It is 500 meters long. The bridge is a part of the ensemble of buildings and bridges of Neva River area in front of Hermitage...
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Hermitage Saint Petersburg
27 Reviews Hermatage, Peterhof, Catherine Palace. St Petrsburg was all that I expected and more. We only had 2 very long and wonderful days there on our Baltic Cruise but I was so impressed with it. Our trips...
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Nevsky Avenue Saint Petersburg
10 Reviews I spent almost a whole day sightseeing along St. Petersburg's main avenue Nevsky Prospekt. It leads from the Admirality in the west via Moskow Railway Station to the Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery in...
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Guidebooks Saint Petersburg
15 Reviews Most facilities in the center are portable toilets. Sometimes on Palace Square you will see toilet buses. Generally WC are all 10 rubles. For free in 5-star hotels, McDonalds and other restaurants....
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Theaters and Concert Halls Saint Petersburg
5 Reviews On Ploshad Iskusstv (Fine Arts Square) there is Mikhailovsky Thatre (till 2007, the academic theatre of opera and ballet of Modest Musorgsky). In June 2007 there were musical events in the open-air...
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Having some tea according to the Russian tradition. The tea drawing is brewed in small kettles and is diluted by boiled water from the samovar ("self-boiler" in Russian). In other words, you would simply call it "Russian tea"... Help yourself! :-) Lots of Russian folk songs....Here's a nice link to a good Russian song "I love you, Russia" sung by Galina Nenasheva(Song of the Year - 1971).
Rusko, Transibiřská magistrála, Bajkal - to byly vždycky moje sny, které jsem ani nikdy nebral moc vážně. Ale podívat se na tento kousek světa mě vždycky lákalo. Azbuku a pár slovíček umím, nějaké kontakty mám v Rusku taky, tak proč nenaplánovat něco šíleného? A co třeba rovnou cesta Moskva-Bajkal-Mongolsko-Čína vlakem? Trošku změna oproti letadlům musí býtA když do toho ještě přijde akce na letenky Praha-Moskva a Peking-Moskva-Praha za 11 tisíc, už není co řešit ;-)Vždycky jsem si říkal - páni, tam bude asi nebezpečno, netroufnu si jet sem sám a nebo jen ve dvou, seženeme nějaké nadšence, kteří pojedou s námi. A tak jsme jeli v 5ti lidech. Nejdřív naše cesta začala v Moskvě, kam hned po příletu díky našemu "ruskému" vzhledu bylo nutno si zajít a vyplnit imigrační...
Russia is an excellent place for the imbiber with many a good brand of local beer available and inexpensive as well.The Baltika range, Klinskoe, Tolstyak, Sibirskaya Korona. Stary Melnik and Bochkaryov are amongst my favourites.Add to that Kozel which is the beer in the photo.
For my upcoming trip, this time I organised my invitation through www.visatorussia.comInvitation came next day via PDF and cost USD30.00. The next day I took the invitation down with a completed application form to the Russian Embassy here in Tokyo.Swift and easy to use service.Mind you I do hope one day that I can enter Russia visa free.
As ancient chronicles assert, the Red Square appeared at the end of 15th century, when Ivan III ordered to ruin all wooden buildings, surrounding the Kremlin and threatening with the fire, and to allot this area for a market. That's how the first name of the square - Trade Square ("Torgovaya") appeared. However, in 16th century the Square was renamed into "Troitskaya (Trinity) Square" after the Church of Saint Trinity. Later the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed was erected at the place of St. Trinity Church.
Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, or Muscovite Baroque, is the name given to a particular style of architecture and decoration which was fashionable in Moscow at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.Naryshkin baroque is essentially a fusion of traditional Russian architecture with baroque elements imported from Central Europe via Ukrainian baroque. It is in contrast to the more radical approach of Petrine baroque, exemplified by Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg and the Menshikov tower in Moscow. The first baroque churches were built in the estates of the Naryshkin family of Moscow boyars. It was the family of Natalia Naryshkina, Peter the Great's mother. Most notable in this category of small suburban churches were the Intercession in Fili (1693-96), the Sign in Dubrovitsy (1690-97), and the Saviour in Ubory (1694-97). They were built in red brick with...
Saint-Petersburg is the Northern capital of Russia, its cultural, historical and architectural center! Saint-Petersburg was named in honor of patron saint of Peter The Great, who founded the city more than 300 years ago and for more than 200 years (till 1917) it was Russian capital. Peter the Great modeled the city after European capitals and it has been referred as Russia's "Window into Europe" for a long time. St.Petersburg is divided into numerous islands by rivers and canals and is often called as the "Northern Venice". Saint-Petersburg together with its palaces, museums, theatres, distant suburbs and their parks is renowned piece of the world's cultural heritage. MUST SEEThe palaces:Winter Palace (Hermitage Museum)Menshikov PalaceMichael Palace (Russian Museum)The churches:St Isaac's Cathedral (1818-1858) Kazan Cathedral (1801-1811)Church of the Savior on Blood (1883-1907)Peter and...
The first chronicle record of Moscow dates from 1147. The foundation of the city of Moscow is related to the name of Yuri Vladimirovich Dolgoruky, a Suzdal prince famous for creating towns (in 1954 a monument to Yuri Dolgoruki was built in the center of the capital). AT first, Moscow was one of the smaller towns near the south-west frontier of Vladimir and Suzdal Land. Little by little significance of the town grew. Even numerous wars and devastation could not stop that process. There are several legends about the foundation of Moscow and origin of the very word «Moscow». One of them tells of the conflict between prince Yuri and boyar Kuchka. The boyar did not show due respect to the prince. For such an attitude the great prince ordered «that the boyar be captured and put to death». On the spot from which the village was taken from Kuchka the prince decided to found «the city of Moscow»....
Learn the russian Alphabet, because you will hardly ever find any inscriptions that are not made only in cyrillic letters and many russian words are also quite easy to understand when you are just able to read them. TYAЛET = myaлem these are 2 different ways to write the word TUALET (toilet) BXOД CBOБOДHЫИ will tell you that the entry is free of charge in a museum. BXOД is a very important word that you will need several times a day, when using the metro - as it means ENTRY - and the system of entry and exit to the metro is really very strict in Russia, because there are controls of tickets ONLY when you enter but NEVER , when you leave the metro and so it might be misunderstood as cheating, when you enter the metro through the exit. "BЫXOД THAT word means EXIT - and in the metro you will mostly read: "BÛXOД B...
The most common European emergency number 112 (following Directive 2002/22/EC: Universal Service Directive) and also standard on GSM mobile phones. 112 is used in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom in addition to their other emergency numbers.Here are some useful phone numbers that you might need while in Russia:Police (until 2012): 02Ambulance (until 2012): 03Fire (until 2012) 01Gas leaks: 04
Marriott Moscow Royal Moscow
6 Reviews and 145 Opinions The hotel has a great location, all the central attractions are very close. But the hotel is not...
Grand Hotel Europe Saint Petersburg
11 Reviews and 210 Opinions I wish I could have described my stay here, but I only passed by almost every night. The building is...
Hotel Mirage Kazan'
3 Reviews and 15 Opinions I have no idea about this hotel before I check in, neither about its location, nor its rating. I...
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Q: There are sereval satellite towns near by Moscow: Susdal, Yaroslaval, Sergiev Posad, Vladimir and may be else. - did anybody try...
A: Don't know about Nanotrip but have done a Golden Ring tour and can thoroughly recommend it. We went to Vladimir, Suzdal', Ples, Kostroma, Yaroslavl', Rostov Velikiy, ,...
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