St. Petersburg Things to Do

It was Catherine the Great who was responsible for creating the celebrated Hermitage museum within the walls of her glorious Imperial residence, the Winter Palace. At the time of her death the collection contained nearly 4,000... more

Releases sensations of invigorating relief if you walk in from a sub-zero winter's day. If you can get to them before anyone else, the sofas squatting in the corner are a fine place to snuggle embryo-like as you blissfully awai... more

The most striking sight as you enter this park these days is some blood red graffiti demanding "Bring Lenin back!". This has been written behind the podium where his statue used to stand. The rest of the park is a source of rec... more

This is a club with attributes no other should really be without. Friendly and down-to-earth, cheap and never quiet, arrivals enter through an unassuming ground-level entrance before heading down into the nether regions below.... more

Devoted to those mop tops The Beatles, Liverpool bombards its customers with as many and as much of the images and music, that proliferated when the band was at large, that it can muster. Sometimes offering live music, often by... more

A comprehensive and interesting look into the world of Fedor Dostoyevskii set in the corner apartment where the celebrated author lived and died. Divided into two sections, literary and memorial, the first reveals the life of t... more

Although this was the childhood home of Lolita's famous author, the rest of his life was spent well away from the place, after his well-to-do family fled the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. Only recently re-opened to the public,... more

The first Irish bar to appear in St.Petersburg (the Shamrock came later), Mollie's is probably the more authentic of the two. The central location, about 10 minutes walk from Nevskii prospekt or a few steps from the nearest met... more

Clearly, no expense has been spared to kit this place out in a manner befitting football fans who prefer indulging in their favourite sport with a beer on a bar stool. Blown-up pictures of French/Manchester United goalkeeper B... more

The land included under the name of Marsovo Pole includes the Summer Gardens, Mikhailovskii Gardens and the grounds of the Marble Palace among others. The heart of the ensemble is The Field of Mars itself, named after the Roman... more