In the occupied territories, 1,700,000 pieces of our cultural heritage were taken—from archaeological artifacts to museum ...

The Russian Museum boasts the world's largest collection ... this museum is the main reason some travelers visit St. Petersburg in the first place. Recent travelers offered fulsome praise for ...

Central St. Petersburg, with its scores of palaces ... the gardens of the Mikhailovsky Palace, which houses the Russian Museum, from the Church on Spilled Blood. That Russian Revival church ...

ST. PETERSBURG, February 16. /TASS/. The State Russian Museum will ship 28 masterpieces by renowned Russian artist Ilya Repin to Finland in March for an exhibition organized in Helsinki’s ...

Source: The State Russian museum, St. Petersburg. By the middle of the 19th century, balls were widely arranged not only in Petersburg and Moscow, where thousands were held every year, but in ...

SAINT PETERSBURG - A notorious Russian prison complex that once housed jailed revolutionaries, toppled ministers and Soviet dissidents will be turned into a hotel, restaurants, museum and art ...

Near the Russian Museum in the Admiralteysky District is a collection of luxury hotels, including the Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace St. Petersburg, the Belmond Grand Hotel Europe and the SO ...

St. Petersburg has had three names in less than 100 years, changes that mirror the shifting political winds of Mother Russia. The names of its places and people are a roll call of Russian history ...