General Staff Building St. Petersburg

... and the beginning of over 70 years of communist rule.  On the other side of the square is the General Staff Building which housed armed forces administrative offices.  At the top of this building is the Chariot of Victory commemorating ...

... Hermitage, one of the world's largest art museums. On the other side of the square facing the Hermitage was the General Staff Building which was in fact two long buildings connected by a weird, off centre archway. Later, we walked through the Admiralty ...

... rich beyond any fantasy to even consider it. One of the ways onto Palace Square is through an archway in the middle of the General Staff building, and that's the one we used. We didn't try to cover everything. We saw the Egyptian, 19th-20th-century West ...

... for lunch at St. Isaac's Square before continuing our walk to the Hermitage. We walked through the arch of the General Staff building to the Palace Square and the Alexander Column.  We began our tour of the Hermitage in the Winter Palace built from ...

... ; My favorite was the vastness of Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, or Palace Square.  Encircled by the Winter Palace on one end, the General Staff Building on the other, and within a stone’s throw of the Admiralty and the Neva River, it’s hard not ...

... them was amusing. We headed back over to the main island and the historic heart of the city. We headed by the General Staff Building which has a museum and temporary exhibits. We walked along a park until I got tired and decided to break off from the ...