Marble Palace 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 …

... to follow the map supplied by the hotel and found that the huge impressive building in front of us was not actually the marble palace.  A kind gentleman who spotted us struggling with the map had come over and we managed to figure out that the huge ...

... were made for him on the ground floor. Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich was an accomplished Russian poet. During his time there the Marble Palace became the centre of cultural life in the capital. Musical evening parties were ...

... the steps inside St Isaac's Cathedral to get a 360 degree view of the city. We make it to the Russian Vodka Museum, The Winter Palace, The Marble Palace and famous statues of Lenin and Alexander. We also crossed The Siniy/Blue Bridge - the widest in the ...

... . Everyone I have dealt with have been so helpful. So willing to try to understand while I speak in very bad Russian. I am in love with Russia. St Petersburg is stunning, The oppulance is breath taking. It is only now that I have seen the extreme lavish ...