St. Petersburg (dpa) – The Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin was a true son of St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city and former capital. “I love you, Peter’s creation,” he once wrote of his home ...

If you're visiting St. Petersburg in the summer, the Peterhof Palace & Garden is an absolute must-see. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peterhof was the brainchild and summer palace of Peter the Great.

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 ...

The complex will be an 80,000-square-foot multifunctional culture and congress center encompassing a 1,600-seat concert hall, a 2,500-seat conference center and a multimedia studio. By David Morgan St ...

The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

St. Petersburg's short but colorful history comes alive in its buildings. The Russian city celebrated its 300th anniversary last year, making it younger than Boston and just a tyke compared to the ...

St. Petersburg continually amazes me. Once a swamp, then an imperial capital, and now a showpiece of long-ago aristocratic opulence, St. Petersburg is Russia’s most accessible and tourist-worthy city.