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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Visas and Documents Saint Petersburg
5 Reviews We were on a Cruise ship, for one very long day in Port. We usually do our own thing, but this is one place where you can't. You either have to do a Ship's tour or a privately booked tour, otherwise...
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A tour guide told us flats built in the Stalin era are the most sought after in Sankt Peterburg (Leningrad), because they are large and well-built.Here are a few more residential area pictures of post-Stalin, late-Soviet era flats.
The monument was built by order of the Empress Catherine the Great as a tribute to her famous predecessor on the Russian throne, Peter the Great. Being a German princess by birth, she was eager to establish a line of continuity with the earlier Russian monarchs. For that reason an inscription on the monument reads in Latin and Russian: Petro Primo Catarina Secunda - To Peter the First from Catherine the Second. This equestrian statue of Peter the Great, created by the famous French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, depicts the most prominent reformer of the Russia state as a Roman hero. He came to Russia especially for that purpose. It took him three years (1768-1770) to make the model of the equestrian statue. The head of Peter I was performed by Falconet's apprentice - Collot. The pedestal was performed after Felten's design. The pedestal is made of a single piece of red granite...
It is the real sphinx from Egypt. Russian queen Ekaterina II liked history very much. She commanded to collect art and historical things from all the world. There are two sphinxes from Egypt in the bound of University.
There are many waterworks in Petergof (Petrodvorec). The biggest of them you can see in the photo. It is Samson riping lion's jaw. The waterwork connected with the Baltic Sea's Finland bay by stylish canal.
The building of sankt Petersburg was start from Zayachy Island. There is the church of Peter and Pavel. There are all Russia's kings were buried. It is an orthodox church, but it's architecture style is like Romanism churches.
The shops in " Unvermag "1 box only in this counter - when everything is sold, the shop is empty and waiting for the next box to arrive......maybe today, maybe tomorrow or next week - we will see...This is one of the pics, I have taken inside the shop.Of course I tried to make sure, nobody will see me taking that pic, otherwise I might have been in trouble
YHИBEPMAГ - shopping the old russian wayIt was quite an experience, to do some shopping in Leningrad of 1985 in the big Russian Shopping-centre " Univermag " ( YHИBEPMAГ )It was a big building with plenty of arcades, but most of the vitrines were simply EMPTY...or they had just a very few goods on display
Do not forget, that in 1985 everything looked much different. Never a single smiling person, - not in a shop, - not in a bus, -nowhere . As a russian once told us: ' there are not much reasons for a russian to smile ' - maybe that's why.(And for a sentence like this, said to the wrong person, he would have risked prison for some time ! )
Smaller cruise ships, i.e. under about 40,000 tons, conveniently moor in the river that goes through the city centre.
Along the city's main shopping & business street, Nevsky Prospect, are green areas with fountains etc..
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...
Friedental Mini-Hotel Pushkin
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Taleon Imperial Hotel Saint Petersburg
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Q: Does the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg still exist? If not, does the building still exist, and if so, where is it located?...
A: Google has all sorts of info. It does still exist in the form of a building that houses the city government. Address is 1 Smolny Passage. You can look up the sites for...
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