The souvenirs and folk art of Russia is as colorful and ornate as the city’s famed palaces and cathedrals. Matrushka Dolls Also called babushka dolls or matryoshka dolls, these nesting dolls are made of wood with painted designs. Usually, there are a minimum of five nesting […]
The Imperial Porcelain Factory is a producer of hand-painted ceramics in Saint Petersburg, Russia (visit it during private escorted tours and excursions). It was established by Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov in the town of Oranienbaum (Lomonosov) in 1744. Many still refer to the factory by its well-known former […]
The Matryoshka doll (some tourists call them nesting dolls or even «babushka») is the most popular, most typical souvenir from Russia. Almost each tourist takes back home at least one of them, but very few people know the story which is behind the matryoshka. Usually the […]
St Petersburg’s metro is perhaps not quite as majestic as Moscow’s, but architecturally it’s still a cut above nearly any other public transport system in the world. It is also the world’s deepest subway, so be prepared for vertiginous views from the top of the escalator. […]
This museum’s remit is to trace the political history of the country right up to the present, and its collection is always kept up to date and relevant. You can visit it in the city sightseeing tour of St Petersburg «Revolutionary Petrograd». Kschessinska Mansion, now the Museum […]
To commemorate the ending of the 900-day Siege of Leningrad during World War II, a monument and museum were built on Victory Square to remember the heroes of Leningrad and their sacrifices to save the city. The 900 day siege caused the most destruction and the […]
It is one of the largest artillery museums in the world and a real paradise for little and not very little boys. This is the museum that will showcase just why the Russian army was victorious in numerous wars. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, […]
The Aurora’s keel was laid down at the «New Admiralty» shipyard in St Petersburg on 23 May 1897. The cruiser was launched on 11 May 1900 and joined the Navy of Russia in July 1903. During the Russian-Japanese War the cruiser, being included in the second […]
The Museum is installed in the former stock exchange buildings. It is a building in the shape of Greek temple, inspired from Paestum, near Napoli. It was built in 1810 by Thomas of Thomson. Over the colonnades, the allegory of Neptune recalls the importance of maritime […]
The overall objective of the project is to collect, exhibit, and popularize most ingenious and skillful works by contemporary artists. The main part of the project is the museum of contemporary art «Erarta», located in Saint Petersburg. Besides the museum, the project also includes commercial galleries, […]
There is nothing more Russian than the ballet. It has its origins in the reign of the Empress Anna in the early eighteenth century. The greater ties with Western Europe established under Peter the Great led her to invite a Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lande, to live in […]
This is the one of St Petersburg’s best-kept secrets! Located only a block away from the Mikhailovsky Castle and the Field of Mars, the Applied Art Museum is little known and rarely included in itineraries of city tours and celebrity shore excursions in St Petersburg. Yet […]
Chamber of Curiosities (Kunstkamera) was established by Peter the Great and completed in 1727, Kuntskamera was the first museum in Russia and contains a collection of almost 2,000,000 items. It is located in the center of St Petersburg, just across the Neva River from Winter Palace […]
Temples were and remain one of the symbols of beauty of Saint-Petersburg. Their destiny has been inseparably linked with the city’s fate. Temples played the main part in the formation of the city’s artistic appearance. Their spires and domes, rising into the sky, remained the only […]
The Alexander Nevsky Lavra functions nowadays as an orthodox monastery belonging to the St Petersburg eparchy. Founded by decree of the Emperor Peter I in 1710, the monastery is located on that very place where, according to the legend, prince Andrey, a son of prince Alexander […]
The name F.M. Dostoevsky has inextricable ties to Saint Petersburg. It is the city where he lived the greater part of his life, where he developed as a writer, and where his fictional characters existed. Together with them he would walk down fantastically real streets, mysterious […]
