Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is the Northern capital of Russia, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is often called 'The Northern Venice'.

Highlights

• The State Hermitage. The museum is located in 5 historic buildings of St.Petersburg, including the Winter Palace – the former residence of Russians tsars. The buildings of the museum, by themselves, are architectural chef d'oeuvres. The collection of the Hermitage numbers over 3 million items from prehistoric to modern times.
• The State Russian Museum. It is the largest collection of Russian art in the country, from ancient icons to the Avantgarde painting of the XX century.
• St. Icaac’s Cathedral Museum-monument.
  One of the finest architectural monuments of the XIX century (architect A. Montferrand), the former principal cathedral of the Russian capital, the largest cathedral in town able to accommodate an audience of about 10.000.
• The Peter-and-Paul Fortress (the Museum of the History of St.Petersburg) was founded by Peter I in 1703.
• The Church of the Savior on the Spilt Blood.
• Museum on Board the Cruiser Aurora. The battleship of the Russian Navy put on eternal mooring.
• The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (KUNSTKAMERA).
  
  
   
• Peterhof is located on the southern shore of the Finnish Gulf 29 kilometers away from St.Petersburg. The Palace and park ensemble is a historical and architectonic monument of the 18th–19th centuries. The Upper Chamber, the Palaces, the Monplaisir, the Marli, the Hermitage Pavilions, three fountain cascades and other fountains were designed by such architects as J.B.Leblont, I.Brounstein, N.Miketthi, as well as the sculptor B.K.Rastrelli who implemented the ideas of Peter the Great.
• Pearls of the world architectural and landscape art are implemented in Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), Pavlovsk, Oranienbaum and Gatchina' palaces and parks.