Field of Mars (Marsovo Pole) St. Petersburg

Ecolines provides another great overnight service from Tallinn to St Petersburg...for €8.40 each. Best prices in town! We can't get a great nights sleep as we cross the border at 2am and have to bring all our belongings off the bus through a passport checkpoint. A stern faced Russian woman stares over the rim of her glasses, stamps our …

... the citizens of Russia" proclaiming the victory of the proletarian revolution. - Peter and Paul Fortress. - The Field of Mars with it's eternal flame. - Russian Museum (inside the Mikhailovsky Palace). We can only vouch for the 1st half of this ...

... inside the city because nobody liked him and was killed there soon after by being hit with an ashtray!  We learnt that the field of Mars is where mass graves were dug during the revolution, and agreed with our guide that it didn't seem to be the ...

... are lots of monuments and churches and gardens to see. Some of the sights we saw were the Bronze Horseman, the field of Mars with the eternal flame, St Isaacs and the church of the spilt blood. They were pretty stunning and jewels in the muddy city. The ...

... church was built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated on March 1, 1881.  We walked through the Field of Mars with the eternal flame to commemorate the victims of the Revolution of 1917.  We crossed Trinity bridge with numerous ...

... along the Griboedov Canal past the very St. Basils looking Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood until we reached the Field of Mars, a broad open space that during summer would no doubt be filled with people enjoying the sunshine and the green expanse. ...

... have a visa. We were taken to the Admiralty, the Alexandrinski Theatre, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Field of Mars and the Summer Palace, the Russian Museum, the Winter Palace and the Hermitage,  St Isaac`s Cathedral. The Senate, the Theatre of ...

... with dates and couples names in it, obviously another custom for luck. I joined many locals promenading through the Field of Mars and saw the Eternal Flame in the Cemetery for Victims of the Revolution. Well dressed young Russian women holding a ...

... all we saw, all the things we have read about, the Bronze Horseman, such a highlight, the Summer Garden, the Winter Palace, St Isaac's Church,Field of Mars, and a great way to see lots from the canals and the Neva River, on another perfect day. The ...