Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...
Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...
A century ago this week, St. Petersburg officially opened the Coliseum ... bestowed the venue’s swanky nickname: the “Palace of Pleasure.” It cost $250,000 to build, according to Times ...
MOSCOW, June 13. /TASS/. The restoration of the Chinese Palace in the Peterhof Museum-Reserve in St. Petersburg has been completed after 20 years, Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova said.
I have an apology to make to the French. I’m sorry, but St Petersburg’s Winter Palace makes the Palace of Versailles look like a derelict shack. Which was exactly Empress Elizabeth’s goal ...