The Winter Palace was built between 1754 and 1762 for Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great. Unfortunately, Eliz ...
The State Hermitage is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world. It was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and ...
The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg. The church was built on the site where ...
Saint Isaac's Cathedral or Isaakievskiy Sobor is the largest Russian Orthodox cathedral in Saint Petersburg. The church on St ...
The Peter and Paul Fortress fortress was established by Peter the Great in 1703 on small Hare Island by the north bank of the ...
The Peter and Paul Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress. It is the first and ...
The Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens laid out on the orders of Peter the Great. These Palaces and gardens a ...
The State Russian Museum (formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III) is the largest depository of Rus ...
Kazan Cathedral is dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, probably the most venerated icon in Russia. The construction was started i ...
The Catholic Church of St. Catherine is one of the oldest Catholic churches in Russia. On December 12, 1705 Peter the Great s ...
The Beloselsky-Belozersky palace belonged to the Princes Beloselskiy, a family who claimed descent from Yuri Dolgorukiy, the ...
The Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Commissioned by Catherine the Gre ...
Tikhvin Cemetery is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery and was established in 1823. Lot of notable composers and artis ...
The Stroganov Palace is a Late Baroque palace was built to Bartolomeo Rastrelli's designs for Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stro ...
The Moika Palace or Yusupov Palace was once the primary residence of the House of Yusupov. The building was the site of Grigo ...
Aurora is a protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in St. Petersburg. One of the first incidents of the Octo ...
St. Michael"s Castle, also called the Mikhailovsky Castle, is a former royal residence built for Emperor Paul I by archi ...
The Admiralty building is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy and since 2012 once ag ...
Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end ...
The Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, also known as the Botanic Gardens of the Komarov Botanical Institute, is the oldest bo ...
Anichkov Palace is a former imperial palace, named after the nearby Anichkov Bridge across the Fontanka. Designed for the Emp ...
Smolny Convent (Voskresensky) is a Russian Orthodox convent built to house Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great. After ...
The Field of Mars or Marsovo Polye is a large park named after the Mars, Roman god of war. The history of Field of Mars goes ...
Circus Ciniselli was the first stone-built circus in Russia. The building, which still stands, was opened on 26 December 1877 ...
The Narva Triumphal Arch was erected in the vast Narva Square (known as the Stachek Square in Soviet years), in 1814 to comme ...
The House of Soviets is the office building built in Stalinist style in the late 1930s. According to Soviet projects, the Hou ...
Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is dedicated mostly to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad. The memorial complex designed ...
St Sampson"s Cathedral is one of the oldest churches in St. Petersburg. Rumor has it that it was in St. Sampson"s C ...