The whole city is a museum. But we would like to mention a few of the most significant ones.

Russian Museum

A palace of 165 rooms with a wonderful collection of Russian paintings and sculptures.

Church of Our Savior-on-Spilt-Blood

Is very picturesque building resembling Moscow St. Basil Cathderal. Built actually for a tragic reason: it took two bombs to kill the Tsar Alexander II on this spot. Who thinks of this tragedy, when looking at this palette of bright colours.

Alexandro-Nevskaya Lavra

This is one of only four most revered Russian monasteries with the status of Lavra (laurel). The main St Petersburg street, called Nevskii Prospect, is actually the former road between the Winter Palace and the Lavra. This was always the most prestige burial place in St. Petersburg. Thus appeared the cemetery, where one can find the impressive tombstones of Peter Tchaikovsky, Fedor Dostoevski, Michael Glinka and many other famous Russian writers, actors and composers.

Ethnography Museum

One of a kind, opened by Nicolas II more than 100 years ago and is situated right by the Russian museum. It is a wonderful palace, with an incredible collection representing 196 nations of the Russian Empire. Not everybody today comprehends the amazing fact, that Russia never had serious religious wars or uprisings, in spite of such diversity of ethnic minorities.

Alexander Pushkin’s Apartment

This apartment is his last dwelling, where Pushkin died after a duel at the age of 37, leaving four kids and a too-beautiful wife behind. He was a great Russian poet, a very vivacious, kind and generous man. Every Russian has been raised on his poetry for the past 200 years. Pushkin was in love 117 times, each time bursting out poems. Grateful muses were the best PR for his talents.

Fedor Dostoevsky Apartment

This ingenious writer had a very complex personality, tragic and stormy life. For somebody like Dostoevsky life was never fun. The ambience of the apartment reflects the habitant aura – dark colours, heavy furniture and the smell of tragedy in the air.

Anna Ahmatova Apartment

Represented by a faceless enfilade of the rooms of the communal flat. The poetess lived in this place fifteen the most well provided for and stable years and wrote almost nothing. How true is the saying: “We create only when we are unhappy”. Anna Akhmatova suffered enough in her long life: shot husband, twice unjustly imprisoned son. Anna’s portraits are in the Hermitage and Russian museums. Books of her poems you will find in every Russian family.

Kazansky Cathedral

It could be only described as grandeur, enormous, impressive. Very formal and reserved cathedral with cold and military air. Great marble works though, sculptures, statues, busts of the different military dignities.