St. Petersburg (dpa) – The Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin was a true son of St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city and former capital. “I love you, Peter’s creation,” he once wrote of his home ...

If you're visiting St. Petersburg in the summer, the Peterhof Palace & Garden is an absolute must-see. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peterhof was the brainchild and summer palace of Peter the Great.

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 ...

The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

St. Petersburg has had three names in less than 100 years, changes that mirror the shifting political winds of Mother Russia. The names of its places and people are a roll call of Russian history of ...

When Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of St. Petersburg in 1703, he famously declared it would be Russia’s Window to the West. Having traveled (incognito) to the Netherlands and Britain, the tsar ...

Glide above the heart of St. Petersburg with this breathtaking drone video of the Winter Palace, the former official residence of the Russian Tsars. Witness the immense scale of this Baroque ...

People watch a light show at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 9, 2023. The light show was held Saturday to mark the 259th anniversary of the State Hermitage Museum. (Photo: Xinhua) ...