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.

Also known as the Moika Palace, Yusupov Palace is a St. Petersburg landmark. It was the main residence of the House of Yusupov, which was a wealthy family of Russian nobles. Travelers come here to ...

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 ...

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's short but colorful history comes alive in its buildings. The Russian city celebrated its 300th anniversary last year, making it younger than Boston and just a tyke compared to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

St. Petersburg continually amazes me. Once a swamp, then an imperial capital, and now a showpiece of long-ago aristocratic opulence, St. Petersburg is Russia’s most accessible and tourist-worthy city.