It draws more than 4 million visitors each year – in fact, this museum is the main reason some travelers visit St. Petersburg in the first place. Recent travelers offered fulsome praise for both ...

Alexander Beglov also said that 11.6 million tourists had visited the city and that domestic travel was on the rise. During ...

A magnificent sculpted golden comb made by a Greek sculptor is one of the great treasures of the Hermitage Museum ...

But in Russia today there is a discernible shift in focus, away from the Holocaust to how the Soviet people as a whole, ...

(250129) -- ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 29, 2025 (Xinhua) -- People watch the unfurled Palace Bridge which is illuminated in red to ...

A miniature version of Russia is now on display at the Grand Maket museum in Saint Petersburg. The area of the model is 40 m². The mockup makes the largest part of the Gulliver's Gate project ...

When I saw that the Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg had a show of John James Audubon, I immediately felt conflicted. Hilary Flower [ Courtesy of Hilary Flower ] It is hard to defend his ...

Just south of the Hermitage Museum and Palace Square is the Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's main thoroughfare ... is still reportedly an issue in Russia, as is discrimination against LGBTQ ...