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55 reviews 13 travel blogs 20 photos Attraction Type:
Historic home, Museum
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Window to the West
... and our legs and feet hurt by the end of the night. We started out with a walking tour of St. Petersburg and began our day at the Mikhaylovsky Palace which is today one part of the Russian Museum. It is a beautiful building from the outside ...
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Russian Palaces
... , after all our sightseeing. We started at 7:15 on July 18 and made our way thru the major sights in St. Petersburg starting with Peterhof Palace, which is on 300 acres just outside of town and has hundreds of fountains on its grounds. We also visited ...
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Stunning St. Petersburg
... , Russia founded by Tsar Peter I in 1703 was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than 200 years. St. Petersburg lost this distiction after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Over the years the name changed to Petrograd (1914-1924) and then to ...
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From Russia with Love
... bacon, great cake and scrambled eggs. So nice to have a big homecooked meal to start the day! Packed our room and checked out Yusupov Palace. Cost a bit to enter but the 28 or so rooms were so beautiful and again a bit 'grand' for any modest person ...
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That elusive rascal, Rasputin
... . Despite its amazing subway system Moscow is hard to get around and fairly unwelcoming to visitors, but St. Petersburg goes out of its way - by Russian standards - to make foreigners feel welcome (for instance, it boasts the one and only government ...
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Day 2
... you the history, but if you wish to learn more about this character just google his name. He is revered by common St. Petersburg residents. The palace itself was not as ornate as the official palaces, as no one wanted to show up the czar. The Russians ...
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Fantastic city
... put people out there who are attending the conference centre there! I had to go a long way round to get to Yusupov Palace because of the demonstration. It was then very expensive to go in so I headed back to the Admiralty and fountain to have ...
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Siege of St. Petersburg
... Russian tsars so I only recognized Peter the Great, Nicholas II and Catherine the Great. Along with founding St. Petersburg, Peter the Great also began the Russian Navy and it was going to be celebrating it's 300 anniversary in a week or so, so there ...
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St. Petersburg - first morning
... of the cathedral was quite dark but warm. From there we drove into the center of town, past several palaces including the Yusupov Palace, infamous for being the place where Rasputin was killed (which took a number of attempts to ...
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Russian Palace Roulette
... glorious sights including the city’s birthplace at Peter and Paul Fortress, the Hermitage museum, Peterhof Palace, St. Isaac’s and Spilled Blood Cathedrals, Yusupov Palace where Rasputin was murdered, and enjoy a cruise along the city’s ...
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- Egyptian Bridge
- Shlisselburg (Oreshek) Fortress
- Central Railway Museum
- Aleksander Suvorov Memorial Museum
- Icebreaker Krasin
- Summer Garden (Letny Sad) and Summer Palace of Peter I
- Sennaya Ploshchad
- Lions Bridge
- Grand Choral Synagogue
- Kirov Apartment Museum
- Oranienbaum / Lomonosov Palace
- Laundry Bridge
- Museum of Hygiene (Muzei Gigieny)
- Liteiny Bridge
- Buddhist Temple
- Blue Bridge
- Alexander Blok Apartment Museum
- Lomonosov Bridge
- Museum of Russian Political History in Kshesinskaya Mansion