Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage ... this museum is the main reason some travelers visit St. Petersburg in the first place. Recent travelers offered fulsome praise for both the art ...

Upon arrival in St. Petersburg, you will be met by your ... to see two of the city's most elegant and beautiful palaces- Catherine Palace (formerly Pushkin) and Pavlovsk, in the nearby village ...

This palace and park south of St. Petersburg was a summer residence of the tsars. Its construction began under Catherine I, the wife of Peter the Great, but only during the reign of the emperor ...

In the snow, St. Petersburg can seem the sexiest place ... I adored the bright blue, snow-glittering Catherine Palace; I adored the tutu room at the Mariinsky Theatre, where the ballerinas ...

This palace, yet another of St. Petersburg’s most beautiful buildings, was built on the banks of the Fontanka River at the end of Catherine II’s reign. It quickly acquired the reputation of a ...

To be in St. Petersburg is to be immersed in an architectural ... Our trip will include a private tour of the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo (Rastrelli and Cameron) including the famed Amber ...

The former capital of the tsars and tsarinas, today St Petersburg is ... Tavrichesky Garden and palace once belonged to Grigory Potemkin, lover and advisor of Catherine the Great, and now draws ...

About 15 miles from St. Petersburg in the town of Pushkin, the sprawling Catherine Palace is one of the best places to experience Romanov opulence. Rick Steves The royal families of the past ...