It seems we barely went to sleep before we had to get up for our day in St. Petersburg. 7:15am meeting for the group, and straight to the bus. We start driving through town, headed to Pushkin, a small town about 45 minutes away, and home of several palaces. I don’t know that...
Petersburg Palaces and The Hermitage Museum in Russia. Theodore Alexander expects to grow the St. Petersburg Palaces line to 200 case goods pieces. Included in the collection are inspired products based on area rugs, decorative fabric, bedding, tabletop products, limited-edition prints, etc.Lin...
Russia’s cultural center also promises a host of knock-out art galleries, theaters and selfie ops. Travelers should brace to be wowed with sights likeSavior on the Spilled Blood ChurchandPeter and Paul Fortress, both of which makeSt. Petersburgworthy of its nickname,...
Oranienbaum, RussiaLocated in the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg, this palace looks like something out of a fairytale. The castle is surrounded by pavilions and two gardens resplendent with fountains and sculptures. The most of the palaces int eh complex is built in the rococo...
Located on the south back of the Neva River in St. Petersburg,the Winter Palaceserved as the main residence of the Russian royal family starting in the 1760s. (These days it's home to the Hermitage Museum, Russia's largest art gallery.) The three-story, green-and-white palace—which is...
Nicknamed ‘the Russian Versailles.’ Peterhof Palace certainly rivals the Sun King’s royal residence in terms of its size, scale and splendor. Sprawling over a vast area, the palace and its landscaped gardens are set on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, just outside of Saint Petersburg....
make more people interested in St Petersburg (2) St Petersburg is a great city which ___. [ ] A. is mixed with various styles B. was completely destroyed in the 1940s C. used to be very attractive(吸引人的) D. is more important than any other city in Russia (3) Which...
Situated just south of St Petersburg, the Russian imperial residence of Tsarskoye Selo is now more than three hundred years old. Tsarskoye Selo the Tsars Village was once a modest estate housing a summer residence for Catherine I, second wife of Peter the Great. The building now known as th...
1. Rundale Palace – Latvia 2. Winter Palace – St. Petersburg, Russia 3. Buckingham Palace – London 4. Château de Chambord – Loir-et-Cher, France 5. Alhambra – Andalusia, Spain 6.Forbidden City – Beijing, China 7.Château Frontenac Castle– Quebec, Canada ...
Some longtime royal residences have been repurposed as museums. St. Petersburg’s riverfront Winter Palace, for instance, is the sixth-most-visited castle, thanks to the appeal of masterworks by Titian and da Vinci along with lavish restored interiors, where Catherine the Great once held court. ...