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St. Petersburg sights
This is a real “must see” in St Petersburg, the world famous museum which occupies 5 buildings and with the collection numbering more than 2000000 items. Famous Russian film director Alexander Sokurov called it “the Russian arc” because
The Jusupov Palace on the embankment of the Moika river is the real home of the aristocracy of the past, a pearl of the “old St. Petersburg”. Here you can feel privacy because that was not the official tsars’ residence but a cosy home for people who could afford whatever they would dream about. The palace is unique because
It is a piety that not all guests of St. Petersburg visit this place though it is really special and uniquely preserved, original palace of the end of the 18th century. Pavlovsk Palace was designed for the family of Emperor Paul I (son of Catherine the Great) and his wife Maria. It is located in one of the suburbs of St. Petersburg and had
Here you will find yourself in the atmosphere of the most opulent age in the Russian history – middle of the 18th century. Endless feasts, gold and porcelain everywhere, dresses of enormous sizes, tremendous hairdos and thousands of serves…
Huge size of the cathedral makes it a bit heavy from the outside though inside it is light and full of harmony. It is like an island of Italian Renaissance in St. Petersburg because the cathedral has a lot in common with St. Pete’s in Rome.
It is something really unusual in the image of classical St. Petersburg because this church leads us to the traditions of ancient Russian art. The whole interior of the church is covered with mosaics assembled of little pieces of stained glass: tremendous work of Russian masters of the very beginning of the 20th century who created a real medieval Russian fairytale with their own hands.
This is one of my favorite places though it is not as famous as the Hermitage. But if you go to Russia you should get acquainted with the Russian painting, it deserves your attention! It is not world famous though one can enjoy it more than the Italian or the famous French. Probably because
Usually this charming suburb with palaces and fountains is compared with Versailles though they are not the same. The most impressive attraction of Peterhof is definitely its garden. Peterhof in summer is the place where joy of life is concentrated like nowhere else. Its founder Peter the Great wanted to create “a paradise”, paradise for the human, not on the heaven but here and now. Peterhof revealed that simple childish joy of life was close to the heart of serious and sometimes cruel tsars…
This is a historical heart of St. Petersburg, the oldest structure which dates back to the times of foundation of the city. Inside the complex you feel yourself back to the early XVIIIth century as even the pavement there has been preserved since the tsars’ times. The bell of the Peter-and-Paul cathedral still plays the ancient melody “God save the tsar” and the members of the most famous Russian dynasty – the Romanovs – are buried under its vaults.