State Hermitage Museum
A massive palace-museum showing the highlights of a collection of over 3,000,000 pieces of international art, primarily western European art.
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Saint Petersburg: 49 plekken in Atlas. Verwacht topbezienswaardigheden, eten en markten, natuur. Markeer waar je bent geweest en plan je reis op je eigen kaart.
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The General Staff building of the Hermitage
Designed by Carlo Rossi and built in 1819-1829, this is a building laid out in the shape of an arch, with an arch, in Palace Square.
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Statuesque symbol of the city, homage to Peter the Great, opened in 1782, the theme and title of one of the most important poems of the Russian language, written by Alexander Pushkin.
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The Mariinsky Theater is world-class for both opera and ballet.
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A traditional style Russian church built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.
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Saint Petersburg/Center
The Center of Saint Petersburg is the area of main interest to the traveler, home to most attractions of the metropolis.
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Peter and Paul Fortress
The Fortress, occupying the entire island, is the original citadel of Saint Petersburg, built during the first half of the 18th century, now a museum.
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Saint Isaac's Cathedral
It was built in 1818, in the style of transition from classical to modern, and is a major attraction in the city.
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Alexander Column
Dedicated to the Russian victory over Napoleonic France in the Patriotic War of 1812.
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An extensive collection of Russian paintings and sculpture, works by Andrei Rublev, Dionisius, Fedot Shubin, Dmitry Levitsky, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Karl Brullov, Fidelio Bruni, Orest Kiprensky, Alexander Ivanov, Ilya Repin, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ivan Shishkin, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Pavel Antokolsky, Boris Kustodiev, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Pavel Filonov, Marc Chagall, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and many other artists.
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The orchestra was established in 1802.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Smolny Convent
Smolny Cathedral of the Resurrection, what is a gorgeous blue and white main church, considered to be one of the architectural masterpieces of architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
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Russian cruiser Aurora
Early 20th-century protected cruiser, most famous for her symbolic role in the Russian Revolution of November 1917.
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Saint Petersburg/Petrograd Side
The Petrograd Side is a borough in Saint Petersburg consisting of the islands of the northern part of the Neva delta.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
Erarta is Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Opened on May 9, 1960.
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The Cabin of Peter the Great
The wooden summer house of the Russian tsar dating from 1703.
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Chesme Church
A memorial church, built by the Russian court architect Yury Felten in 1780, at the direction of Catherine the Great, to commemorate Russia's 1770 victory over Turkish forces in Chesme Bay.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Smolny Complex
There is the Smolny Convent and the Smolny Institute, a yellow low building that was Russia's first educational establishment for women, created by decree under the personal patronage of Empress Catherine II, and continued to function until just before the 1917 revolution.
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One of the largest cathedrals in St.
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The Admiralty
Not open to visitors, but worth seeing from the outside.
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The Hermitage Theater, built as a private home theater of Russian Emperor, used to be Imperial Theatre during more than a century, nowadays is used for almost daily ballet performances, especially during the high-season.
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A granite obelisk on the place where Pushkin was shot, perpetually adorned with fresh flowers.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Troitsky Bridge
The third permanent bridge across the Neva and the first connecting this borough with the opposite bank.
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is one of Russia's most important writers.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Museum of the Defense of Leningrad
The museum is in a former Handicraft Museum, what is part of the museum buildings Solyanka quarter.
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Anichkov Bridge
Built in 1841-42 and reconstructed in 1906-08, combines a simple form with some spectacular decorations.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater
Formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, often referred to as the Bolshoi Drama Theater and by the acronym BDT, it is considered one of the best Russian theaters.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Museum of Zoology
One of the largest natural history museums in the world.
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It is possible to take a 15-minute aerial tour along the 10 km long portion of the Neva, between the Blagoveshchensky and Alexander Nevsky Bridges, during weekends from May to October, starting from the helipad right outside the Peter and Paul Fortress' walls, but it is quite expensive and noisy.
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Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
The monument is in the center of Victory Square and is dedicated to the heroic defense and break the blockade of Leningrad.
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Field of Mars
Beautiful Baroque garden with several military monuments, bordering the Field of Mars to the north are the beautiful and historic Marble Palace, Suvorova Square and Betskoi’s, Ficquelmont and Saltykov’s houses.
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Saint Petersburg/Vasilievsky Island
Vasilievsky Island is an island in Saint Petersburg situated between the Bolshaya Neva and the Malaya Neva, two main distributaries of the river.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Grand Hotel Europe Restaurant
About this price includes a full caviar spread and sushi bar in addition to the normal brunch fare.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Moscow Victory Park
Moscow Victory Park is near the metro station "Park Pobedy" and covers an area bounded by streets Kuznetsovskaya, Basseinaya, Moscovski Prospekt and Yuri Gagarin Prospekt.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Idiot
Named after the Dostoevsky novel, and offering a wide variety of very tasty vegan, vegetarian, and seafood dishes at prices higher than what you'd expect.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Baku
One of the city's more impressive interiors, modeled after the palaces of the Shirvan Shahs.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Clean Plate Society
Cafe by Kirill Ivanov and budding chef-mogul Alexander Berkovksy.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Traveling Sack for a Pregnant Spy
A very fun Russian restaurant, that would be worth visiting as a gallery of weird spy-kitsch, but the food is also decent.
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Russian cuisine in a 19th-century building.
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The Shuvalov Park also contains a network of old ponds; the Yellow Dacha, a wooden lodge designed by Maximilian Messmacher for his own family; the Parnassus hill, which used to offer views of the capital's downtown; and the Church of Sts.
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Kafe Cat is a tucked into a rather unassuming location, just off Nevsky.
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Internationalists park covers an area bounded by Glory Ave, Southern Chausseé, and Bucharest St.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗Terrassa, a Ginza Project restaurant
Offers magnificent view to Kazansky cathedral from terrace.
Meer · BronnenOpslaan op mijn kaart ↗1,001 Nights
This would be but an ordinary undistinguished Uzbek restaurant, were it not within one block of the Winter Palace.
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Small unassuming place with great Georgian food.
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This is a lake with an island on the edge of the park and with a small hill
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The big obelisk in honor of Count Peter Rumyantsev's victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1791 in the center of the park was created 1799 and moved here from the Field of Mars in 1818.
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