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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Catherine II (more popularly known as Catherine the Great) had a huge influence on Russian history. The German-born empress reigned from 1762-1796. The monument on a little square at Nevskii Prospekt shows her as she probably w... more
Real Travelers who've been here
ToniandDavid said
… Cathedral (modelled after St Peters, Vatican), the monument to Catherine the Great, the Anichkov Bridge… continue reading »
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More than 10 years have passed since the fall of the Soviet regime. Perhaps a decade is long enough to allow Soviet style to make a come-back. That seems to be the idea behind this bar/restaurant - one of the first major new ha... more
Real Travelers who've been here
Elena and Richard said
… at a restaurant called 'Lenin Lives' which was fitted out with Soviet propaganda - bread with herrings… continue reading »
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The Edmond J Safra Grand Choral Synagogue is the second largest and second most architecturally elegant synagogue in Europe, its cupola reaching a height of some 47 meters. It was built in Arabesque-Mauritanian style between 18... more
St. Petersburg Travel Experiences
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Back in the U.S.S.R. NOT!
Hello everyone! Time is flying - our adventure in St. Pete has come to an end quickly. The White Nights were down right spooky;... Continue reading »
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Vodka and Cavier: nice
We left Irkutsk for what would be our longest journey on a train yet - a full three days of nonstop travel. We were actually going first... Continue reading »
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St Petersberg
I am writing this having been to St Petersburg and moved on to Moscow. The reflection back is a blur of fantastical, unreal s... Continue reading »
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Back in the USSR
.........IT was GREAT!!! ....was last here in 1992 (studying) just as the Gorbachev/Yeltzin reforms had rocked the whole countr... Continue reading »
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Hydrofoils, fountains and gold at Peterhof
We had read Peterhof was a good place to go, around a 30 minute ride by hydrofoil from the banks of the Neva out into the Gulf of Finland... Continue reading »
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Popular St. Petersburg Hotels
- Apricot Hostel
- Radisson SAS Royal Hotel
- Renaissance St. Petersburg Baltic Hotel
- Nevsky Hotel Moyka 5
- TOP Helvetia Hotel St Petersburg
- Radisson SAS Royal Hotel
- Northern Lights Hotel
- Petro Palace Hotel
- Stony Island Hotel
- Park Inn Pulkovskaya
Popular St. Petersburg Things to Do
- Aleksandrovskii Park (Alexander Park)
- Kvartira Rasputina (Rasputin's Apartment)
- Garden Street
- Domik Petra Pervogo (Peter's Cabin)
- Isaakievskii Sobor (St. Isaac's Cathedral)
- Crystal Palace
- Dostoevsky Art Bar
- Dvortsovyi Most (Palace Bridge)
- Nevskii Prospekt
- Metro
