Best of St.Petersburg Russia attractions

Here are the best of St.Petersburg attractions that are well-known and recognized by many of those who had travel to Saint Petersburg and Russia before.

	The Hermitage museum is the largest museum of Russia, St.Petersburg top attraction and one of the largest museums in the world. It rivals with such world museums as Louvre in France, the National Gallery and the British museum in England, Prado museum in Spain. Its collection numbers over 3 000 000 works of art with major display occupying 365 rooms of the Winter palace, Little, Old and New Hermitage, and General Staff building. Read more ...
	The Gold Room is a Treasure gallery located in the Hermitage museum. Two sections demonstrate the gold jewelry of ancient nomadic tribes of Russia and jewelry pieces from the Gallery of Jewelry of the Imperial Hermitage created in more recent times. The Gold Room collection of antiquities includes a large number of gold artifacts: bracelets, rings, earrings, female and male clothes decorations. Read more ...
	Catherine's Palace is the most ornate, luxurious and grandiose summer palace in St.Petersburg famous for its precious Amber Room. Originally a small 2-storey building presented by the loving husband (Emperor Peter the Great) to his tsarina Ekaterina, it later became a grand baroque palace striking foreign guests with over-the-top Imperial decor. Read more ...
	Amber Room is located in Catherine the Great's palace in Pushkin town. Here you can learn the story of the Amber Room creation, loss and reconstruction written by the art historian Dr. Burkhardt Göres who had followed with close attention the Amber Room recreation progress since his first trip to Leningrad in 1967. Read more ...
	Peterhof (from Dutch - PeterHoff, meaning in English - Peter's Yard) is the most spectacular Russian site, often called "The Capital of Fountains" or "Russian Versailles". It was modeled after French Versailles which Czar Peter the Great had visited during his "Grand Embassy" to Europe in 1697. Read more ...
	Peterhof Palace is the central part of Peterhof ensemble. Its elegant 3-storey facade flanked with glass galleries and shining gilded domes of Peterhof Church and Coat-of-Arms pavilion is seen from far away. Peterhof palace stands on a 16-m terrace above Peterhof Lower Park. Peter the Great first developed his idea to create Peterhof in 1714. He personally drew sketches of the future Peterhof palace and park. Read more ...
	Pavlovsk is both the name of the town and a museum complex in St.Petersburg suburbs about 30 km (19 miles) away from the city and just 5 km (2 miles) away from Catherine palace. The Park and Palace ensemble of Pavlovsk was a gift from Catherine the Great to her son Paul upon birthday of Paul's first child Alexander in 1777. Paul was the somewhat neglected son of Catherine the Great because she always considered him a rival to the throne after death of her husband Peter III. Shunted aside by her in favor of Alexander, Paul was very anxious to assume the title of Tsar. Read more ...
	Isaac's cathedral in St.Petersburg is the most impressive construction of 19th century Russia. Everything about the cathedral is done on a grand scale. Heavy granite columns of the porticos (40000 pounds each), tug on barges from Finnish quarries and manually installed on the site (special scaffolding and man power used for lifting), massive bronze doors and gilded dome (220 pounds of gold was required). Read more ...
	Church-of-the-Spilled-Blood (Resurrection church) is one of St Petersburg's most romantic sites. Although its history suggests it is far from romantic. It was built on the site of Tsar Alexander's II assassination in 1881 when a terrorist threw a bomb at the Tsar's carriage. The son Alexander III ordered to build a memorial church on this spot. The pseudo-Russian style was chosen intentionally. The church would stand out from the rest of European architecture of St.Petersburg and remind about the accident and All-Russia's grief. Read more ...
	To maintain Russian ascendancy in the Baltic Sea, Emperor Peter the Great established a fort, named Sankt Petersburg, later Peter and Paul Fortress. The very centre of the Fort is Peter-and-Paul Cathedral. At its height of 122,5 m (366FT) it is the tallest architectural construction in the city. The cathedral played the prime role in the religious and political life of Russia since St.-Petersburg had become its capital in 1712 and up to 1918. It was also a symbolic centre of the Russian Empire as it is a burial site of many of the imperial family. Read more ...
	The Russian museum of St.Petersburg boasts of the world-famous collection of Russian art and has a status of a national art gallery. It houses more than 300,000 items, including numerous samples of old Russian art and handicrafts, painting and sculpture, tens of thousands of drawings, water-colors and engraving, and finally, priceless works of decorative and applied art. Read more ...
	The Yusupovs' Palace on Moika became the Yusupovs' family residence in 1820 and until Bolshevik Revolution remained the richest aristocratic house of Russia. Yusupovs' palace on Moika is notoriously famous for Rasputin's murder that took place in one of the cell rooms on 16-17 December 1916. Read more ...
	Alexandria is a romantic landscape park stretching along the Gulf of Finland, east from the vast Peterhof Lower park. "Alexandria" park is called after Empress Alexandra, wife of Nickolas I Romanov. Its grounds and a cozy English gothic cottage were specially designed for Empress Alexandra to spend her summer days away from St.Petersburg. Presented as a gift, it in fact became a summer residence of Nickolas' family. Read more ...
	Canal tour through canals will let you see authentic Petersburg, admire its graceful house facades, ornate palaces of Russian nobility, pass under hundreds of its arched bridges. St.Petersburg inherited many features from its European "sister towns" Venice and Amsterdam. Similar location on islands and winding rivers determined St.Petersburg architectural look. It boasts of more than 400 bridges that connected scattered islands of the Neva estuary into a single well-shaped ensemble. Read more ...
	St.Petersburg Choral Synagogue. The history of St. Petersburg Jewish community keeps its official count since 1802, when the first record in the community book “pinchas” was made. However, throughout the 18th century Jews used to come to the capital of Russian Empire and stay there for a long period of time. Read more ...
	This impressive Leningrad Siege museum captures the difficulties of life during the Blockade. Though much smaller than its original layout, it still has lots of eerie exhibits documenting the 900-day WWII siege of the city, when people were eating sawdust cakes, or bran fried in motor oil, or cats. Read more ...
	St.Petersburg Metro is considered the deepest metro in the world at its average depth. St.Petersburg metro was opened on 15th, November, 1955 and originally had just 8 stations: from Plozhad Vosstaniya to Avtovo. Those are the most beautiful stations of all. At the moment there are 4 lines 102 km long, 59 metro stations and 62 metro vestibules. Read more ...
	Cruiser Aurora is probably the main symbol of October Revolution and the most recognizable symbol of Leningrad and present day St.Petersburg. Cruiser Aurora is nowadays a year-round public museum with free entrance. Any visitor can climb onboard and walk on her deck. Read more ...