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Sightseeing

The main memorial to the victims and defenders of besieged Leningrad: 186 mass graves, an Eternal Flame, a bronze Motherland figure and…

Museums

The museum in Solyanoy Lane that tells the story of the 872-day siege of Leningrad. It opened in 1944, was closed for…

Museums

The Art Nouveau mansion of the ballerina Mathilde Kshesinskaya, which became the Bolsheviks' headquarters in 1917 and now houses a museum of…

Sightseeing

A museum of the peoples of Russia in a Svinyin-designed building behind the Russian Museum, with about half a million objects covering…

Sightseeing

One of the largest railway museums in Europe, opened in 2017 in the former Baltic Station locomotive depot, with about 118 pieces…

Sightseeing

One of the world's largest maritime museums, founded in 1709 from Peter the Great's Model Chamber and since 2013 housed in the…

Sightseeing

The protected cruiser launched in 1900, famous for the blank shot of October 1917, now a museum ship of the Central Naval…

Landmarks

The eastern tip of Vasilyevsky Island, a Neoclassical ensemble of the Old Stock Exchange, two red Rostral Columns and a granite embankment…

Sightseeing

The cast-iron bascule bridge across the Neva, opened in 1916, whose raised leaves in front of the Hermitage and the Peter and…

Sightseeing

Paul I's palace of 1797–1801, a Romantic-classical castle once ringed by canals, today a branch of the Russian Museum with a portrait…