Saint-Petersburg Sights and Attractions

The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
The world’s greatest art displayed in dazzling splendour. The state Hermitage borrows six majestic buildings, located along quay of Neva in the center of St.-Petersburg. Almost for two century in the Hermitage one of the largest collections, numbering about three millions works of art and monuments of world culture, since the Stone Age and before our century is collected. The collection contains art from the Stone Age to the 20th Century. Read More...
Address: Dvortsovaya nab, 34, Saint-Petersburg, Russia


Palace Square, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
One of the most known buildings of St.-Petersburg, noted in history is especially strong after October revolution is, certainly, the building of the Winter palace situated on the Palace Square. The palace Square also has received the name from the Winter palace. First it was nothing but a remarkable field, then Peter I has constructed the first Winter palace, and later it became one of the most beautiful and most known Square in St.-Petersburg.
Now the Palace area has collected many famous sights of St.-Petersburg - The Alexander Column, the Winter palace, a building of the General staff, from where you can see building of Admiralty and the beginning of the Nevskiy prospect. Read More...
Address: Dvortsovaya pl , Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
The state Russian museum - the state museum of Russian fine arts first in the country, is based in 1895 in St.-Petersburg under the Decree of emperor Nikolay II. Has solemnly opened for visitors - on March, 7/19th, 1898. Its exposition has been presented to day of opening of a museum in 37 halls (21 hall - on a ground floor and 16 - on the second).
Now the collection of Russian museum totals about 400000 exhibits and covers all the historical periods of development of Russian art, all its basic kinds and genres, directions and schools more than for 1000 years: from X till XXI century. . Read More...
Address: Inzhenernaya street, 4, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
The Peter and Paul Fortress was founded by Peter the Great on a small island in the Neva delta on May 27, 1703 (May 16 according to the old calendar), which is now marked as St. Petersburg's City Day. From 1721, the fortress housed part of the city's garrison and also famously served as a high security political jail - among the first inmates was Peter's own rebellious son Alexei.
Nowadays on the territory of the fortress several interesting museums are functioning. At the Commandant's House visitors can get acquainted with the history of Saint Petersburg since 1703 till 1917. In the Trubetzkoy bastion one can learn a lot of interesting facts about the main political prison of Russia. The gas-dynamic laboratory and the printing house are also worth visiting. The cathedral of Saint Peter and Paul that is a burial vault of the Romanovs is also extremely popular with the tourists. Read More...
Address: Petropavlovskaya krepost

St Isaac’s Cathedral, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Informal museum of a color stone and official historical-art museum in the city of St.-Petersburg is St Isaac's Cathedral. Besides it, St Isaac's Cathedral - the largest cathedral of St.-Petersburg, capable to contain 10 thousand person, is also one of the greatest dome buildings of the world. Diameter of its dome makes 21,8 meters.
If you reach the top of colonnade of St Isaac's Cathedral, you can admire a delightful kind of St.-Petersburg from height of forty three meters. The view, opening on the central part of city-on-Neva from St Isaac's Cathedral, is really unforgettable. And itself St Isaac's Cathedral has no analogues in domestic and world culture, so it is unusual and beautiful.
Address: Isaac's Square, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Read More...

Mariinsky Theatre, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Mariinsky theatre is one of the oldest theatres of Russia. Mariinsky theatre originally settled down on that place where now there is Conservatory of Saint-Petersburg. The Mariinsky theatre is the symbol of Russian culture named by wife's name of Alexander of II empress Maria Aleksandrovny, has been opened on October, 2nd, 1860 Michael Glinka's opera "Life for queen ".
On performance of Mariinsky theatre gather fans of an opera and ballet from all sides. The ballet troupe of theatre by the right is considered one of the best in the world, and the opera conducted by violent Valery Gergiev, does not complain of absence of class executors.
Address: Teatralnaya Square, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Yusupov Palace, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Yusupov Palace, which is located on quay of the river of the Moika, is one of the most beautiful monuments of classicism in St.-Petersburg. In decoration of halls of a palace have been used motives of various historical styles. For example, the home theatre are issued in spirit of a baroque, the Turkish cabinet - in east style, main halls - in style an empire style, a part of halls of a ground floor have been decorated in style of neoclassicism. The furniture of halls amazes with the magnificence: painting, screw-thread, a marble, the mirrors, dear silks, graceful furniture. Yusupov's family have collected in a palace a rich collection of painting, a sculpture and subjects of an art. Partially these assemblies are presented to expositions of a museum.
Address: Moiki reki nab 94

Petrodvorets, Petergof, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Petrodvorets is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, 29 km from Saint Petersburg. Its parks occupy a territory of about 1000 ha. In 1714 on a high littoral terrace a palace was founded (known as upper halls) and behind the palace the Upper Garden was laid out.
There is a unique system of water-supply of the fountains which is based on the principle of communicating vessels. The fountains are connected by means of a water-main with springs welling out in the Ropshinsky Heights. It was also the time when the park later named as Lower was established there. In the middle of the XVIII century the palace was augmented upon the project of the architect Rastrelli. 
Address: Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia