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St Petersburg

St. Petersburg is really impossible to describe in a few words. The city was founded on May 27th (according to the old calendar) 1703, when a fortress named Sanktpietrbuch in honor of Saint Peter was constructed on Zayachy (Rabbit) island. This marked the beginning of this unique city. One of the most interesting facts concerning the birth of St. Petersburg was that it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great three centuries ago on a strange territory of swamps, inhabited by mosquitoes, frogs and evil magicians. St. Petersburg is Russia´s second largest and second most important city - the Northern capital of the country, Russia´s cultural center, and considered the world´s "Northern Venice" due to its extensive system of canals. Today, the city has a relatively healthy economy (as far as Russia is concerned), has the country´s largest and busiest port and a very high level of cultural life.

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Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Monastery)
Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Monastery)
The largest monastery in Russia, Alexander Nevsky Lavra was built near the place where Grand Prince Alexander won his victory over the Swedes and the Teutonic Knights in 1240. Alexander is also buried inside the Lavra. Today it is an active monastery and church. Visitors will have a very Russian experience here - it is a very traditional Orthodox Church. The monastery is also notable for its graveyard. In the graveyard, Tshaikovsky, Rimksy Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Lomonosov, Dostoevsky and others are buried.
Cathedral of the Saviour on the Spilled Blood
Cathedral of the Saviour on the Spilled Blood
St. Petersburg´s most Russian looking building. The cathedral would seem at home on Moscow´s Red Square with its onion shaped domes and multi colored facade. The cathedral is built on the ground where Tsar Alexander II was assasinated by terrorists. It is notable for its extremely beautiful mosaics and icons.
Hermitage museum
Hermitage museum
It is difficult to imagine Saint Petersburg without this great museum, attracting visitors from the entire world. The Hermitage along with the Louver in Paris, the National Gallery in London and the Prado in Madrid ranks as one of the world’s largest and greatest collections of art. The date of its foundation is considered to be 1764, the year when Catherine II purchased 225 paintings from the merchant Gotzkowski. Today, the collection numbers over 3 million items among them the works of art of prehistoric culture, Egyptian art, Antiquities, Scythian gold, great collections of Western European paintings and sculptures (from Picasso to Rembrandt). The museum’s architecture will also impress with its solemnity and elegance – the museum being housed in the former Winter Palace of the Russian Tsars.
Pavlovsk, Tsar Pauls stronghold
Pavlovsk, Tsar Pauls stronghold
Built in the late XVIII and early XIX centuries, the palace and park was used as a summer residence for emperor Paul I and his family. The landscape park, one of the largest in Europe, covers an area of 600 hectares. The museum in the palace displays an excellent collection of portraits by Russian artists and a number of Pavlovsk landscape paintings and drawings. Residential rooms of the Empress Maria Fedorovna are enrapturing with their harmonious beauty and are open the public.
Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress
The Peter and Paul Fortress was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Besides the ancient fortifications, the fortress includes the Peter and Paul Cathedral, built in the early XVIII century. The cathedral includes the burial vault of Peter the Great and other Russian Tsars, the museum of Trubetskoy Bastion prison and the expositions: The History of St. Petersburg, History of the Imperial Mint as well as a printing workshop and the museum of space exploration and missilery. It is also possible to walk along the walls of the fortress and observe the fabulous architecture of the surrounding areas.
Peterhof (Petrodvorets)
Peterhof (Petrodvorets)
Peterhof is a jewel of Russian art – a town of parks, palaces and fountains. In the past, it was used as an exquisite summer residence by the Russian Tsars. Verkhniy Garden and Nizhniy Park, are genuine masterpieces of landscape design. They include over 150 fountains and 4 monumental cascades. Within the park, there are 10 museums: the Grand Palace, Monplaisir, Catherine’s Block, Marli, Hermitage, the church of St. Alexander Nevsky (Gothic Capella), the Benois family museum, the Cottage, the Bath Block including Tafeldecker and Kaffeeschenk Rooms, the Kitchen and the Museum of Collecters. The exposition of the special treasury and the private room of Catherine the Great in the Block under the Armcoat of the Grand Palace are all open to the public.
Pushkin, residence of the last Tsar
Pushkin, residence of the last Tsar
The Palace and Park of Tsarskoye Selo is a former country residence of the Russian emperors. It is a fascinating monument of the world’s architectural and gardening arts of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Its 3 parks occupy an are of 600 hectares on which are located over 100 architectural monuments: from magnificent palaces and grand monuments to intimate pavilions and park sculptures. The center of Tsarskoye Selo is Catherine’s Palace, containing exquisite decorative objects, furniture, Russian and Western-European paintings, unique collections of porcelain, amber, arms and decorative bronze sculptures.
Russian Museum
Russian Museum
The Michailovsky Palace where the Russian Muesum is situated was built by the architect K. Rossi at the beginning of the XIX century for Alexander I´s brother Michail. It became a museum of Russian art at the end of XIX century. In its collections there are paintings by Brullov, Ayvazovsky, Repine, Kuingy and many other great masters. The museum also owns collections of sculptures, applied art and numismatics. The museum also has a number of branches: the infamous Michailovsky castle where the emperor Paul I was murdered, the Marble and Stroganov palaces, the Summer palace of Peter I and the Benua´s case.
St. Isaacs Cathedral
St. Isaacs Cathedral
One of the finest architectural monuments of the XIX century, the former principal cathedral of the Russian capital has a capacity to accommodate 10,000 people. The cathedral is graced with 112 solid granite columns weighing up to 114 tons each and about 400 relieves and bronze sculptures. The observation platform on the colonnade provides a magnificent view of the city.
Yusupov Palace
Yusupov Palace
The building is notable both for its beauty and for the historical events that have taken place within its walls. The Palace contrains elaborate ceremonial rooms, a unique home theater and the cozy basement drawing-rooms, associated with the assassination of Grigory Rasputin.

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