Shishkin Exhibition and Art Evening at the Russian Museum: 26 October
The Russian Museum hosts an art evening on 26 October with a lecture and a viewing of the Ivan Shishkin exhibition in th...
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The Russian Museum hosts an art evening on 26 October with a lecture and a viewing of the Ivan Shishkin exhibition in th...

The Museum of Theatre and Music on Zodchego Rossi Street: imperial theatre costumes, the «Ballet Class» and noise machin...

Znamenka is an estate on the Peterhof Road between Strelna and Peterhof: a palace rebuilt by Harald Bosse for Grand Duke...

Since 2013 the Central Naval Museum has occupied the converted Kryukov Barracks on Truda Square: thousands of ship model...

The Alexander-Svirsky Monastery lies 260 km from St Petersburg and 21 km from Lodeynoye Pole. What to see in its Transfi...

Stroganov Palace is a Russian Museum branch at Nevsky 17 — one of Rastrelli's defining St Petersburg buildings. Inside y...

The pink palace on the corner of Nevsky and the Fontanka is not a walk-in museum: you get inside on an hour-long tour of...

St Petersburg is the only Russian city where you can walk three ship-museums from three different eras in a single day: ...

Solyanoy Lane between the Fontanka and Liteyny is one of the densest blocks in the centre: the Stieglitz Academy's museu...

Kronstadt is a town on Kotlin Island, the former main base of the Baltic Fleet. Here you find the Naval Cathedral — a sc...

Kazan Cathedral is St Petersburg's principal Orthodox church, built in 1811 by Voronikhin. 96 columns in a crescent on N...

Shuvalovskoye Cemetery on the shore of the Lower Suzdal Lake is one of St Petersburg's oldest working cemeteries, in use...

Shuvalov Park on the city's northern edge is the former estate of the Shuvalov and Vorontsov-Dashkov counts: a Gothic ch...

Costumed cossacks on Palace Square are a phenomenon of the past few years. What they do, why they are there and how to t...

On 30 October 2026 the Hermitage hosts another evening in its Dialogue of the Arts series. The museum's curators come ou...

The Catherine Palace in the morning, Pavlovsk squirrels after lunch. How to fit two palace towns into one child-friendly...

The Popov Central Museum of Communications occupies the Bezborodko Palace at 7 Pochtamtskaya Street: from post boxes and...

A marble hall with a crystal ceiling and a 96-metre frieze, a peasant house and the costumes of peoples from the Arctic ...

In 2026 Evgeny Shvarts turns 130. The Russian Museum marks the anniversary with an exhibition at the Marble Palace: the ...

Ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska's mansion by Gorkovskaya metro is a textbook piece of St Petersburg Art Nouveau, and ins...

The 'A Room and a Half' museum in the Muruzi House on Liteyny Prospekt is the very flat Joseph Brodsky described in his ...

Yusupov Palace at Moyka 94 was the main St Petersburg home of the Yusupov family and the place where Grigory Rasputin wa...

The Church of the Resurrection, better known as the Savior on Spilled Blood, stands on the spot where Alexander II was m...

The Peter and Paul Fortress is where St Petersburg began in 1703. The Peter and Paul Cathedral with the imperial burial ...

The Arctic and Antarctic Museum is housed in the former St Nicholas Edinoverie Church at 24a Marata Street: a seaplane u...

The Baltic House Theatre-Festival by Gorkovskaya metro: three halls with 873, 122 and 63 seats, what's on in November 20...

The Russian Museum has launched a full programme of guided tours around its Aivazovsky retrospective in the Benois Wing ...

Pavlovsk is the quiet alternative to Pushkin — fewer tourists, the largest landscape park in Europe and original Cameron...

The Freud's Dream Museum is a concept show about the unconscious housed in the Institute of Psychoanalysis on Bolshoi Pr...

Kamenny Island is the most 'dacha-like' of the Neva islands: Art Nouveau wooden mansions, the palace of Paul I, Felten's...

On 21 October 2026 the Hermitage Theatre foyer opened «Between Phenomena», an exhibition of works by Evgeny Gerasimov, a...

Erarta is Russia's largest private contemporary art museum, on Vasilievsky Island. Five floors, 2,500 works, themed inst...

Yelagin Island is a park from shore to shore: the Yelagin Palace built by Carlo Rossi for the mother of Alexander I, the...

At the Alexander Nevsky Lavra the Holy Trinity Cathedral is free to enter, while the two old cemeteries with the graves ...

Oranienbaum is the only St Petersburg estate the Germans never occupied — and the only one with fully original 18th-cent...

Gatchina is the closest major imperial estate to St Petersburg — Paul I's main residence. The Great Palace has an underg...

The cruiser Aurora on Petrogradskaya Embankment and the icebreaker Krasin on Vasilyevsky Island are two museum ships wit...

Petrikirche on Nevsky, the church that was a swimming pool in Soviet times, with a big organ and tours of its catacombs;...

SKA now plays at the new SKA Arena on Yuriya Gagarina Prospekt, while the Ice Palace by Prospekt Bolshevikov hosts conce...

The Russian Museum of Ethnography covers the peoples of Russia and has the Marble Hall; the Kunstkamera covers the world...

The Bread Museum left Ligovsky Prospekt in 2015 and now occupies a wooden house at 2 Mikhaylova Street by Finlyandsky st...

A car-free day on the Road of Life: the Broken Ring on the Ladoga shore, the Road of Life Museum at Osinovets and the Fl...

A short walk from Nevsky to Konyushennaya Square: the doughnut café at 25 Bolshaya Konyushennaya (hours and prices), the...

Walking the Griboyedov Canal: the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Kazansky Bridge and the Singer House, the griffins of Bank B...

A walking route through seven squares in the centre: Palace, Senate, St Isaac's, Theatre, Sennaya, Ostrovsky and Arts Sq...

Elizabethan baroque, a freestanding belfry over the famous Seven Bridges spot, and memorial plaques for lost submarine c...

A multi-story stained-glass window, stucco molding and a family monogram on the ceiling - and free entry, because it is ...

Sheremetev Palace on the Fontanka holds both the Museum of Music, with Stradivari violins and Glinka pianos, and the Ann...

The palace on the corner of Nevsky and the Moyka is a rare private commission by court architect Rastrelli, now a quiet ...

30,000 porcelain pieces, a Hermitage branch inside a working factory, and almost no line - how to visit one of St. Peter...

Pavlovsk, Tsarskoye Selo and Gatchina - three palace ensembles near St. Petersburg with a mood that echoes your favorite...

The two Hermitage buildings are two museums with separate entrances and tickets. Who should pick the Winter Palace and w...

How to visit the Yusupov Palace in autumn 2026: entrance from 21 Dekabristov Street, ticket office open 09:30–18:00, tic...

The Russian Museum is five buildings in the centre of St Petersburg, and each has its own ticket. We explain what is whe...

Entry to the grounds of the Peter and Paul Fortress is free; you pay for the cathedral with the Romanov burial vault, th...

From 16 October 2026 to 28 March 2027 the Ioannovsky Ravelin shows more than 50 works by Savely Schleifer of the Union o...

The owner of the former Kresty complex has approved a museum concept with role-based routes and a lecture hall. No openi...

On 9 and 11 October a small museum in the Semyontsy district runs free tours of its exhibition on 19th-century St Peters...

Adult tickets cost 900 roubles, school children 700, under-fives free. Seals at 11:30 and 17:30 Tuesday to Sunday, shark...

The Hermitage, the General Staff Building and the Kunstkamera close on Mondays. The Russian Museum, St Isaac's, the Savi...

The federal 100/50/30 refund ladder plus the separate rules of the Hermitage, Russian Museum, Peterhof and Tsarskoye Sel...

More than twenty churches in St Petersburg are called cathedrals; eight matter to a visitor. The difference isn't archit...

Which museums in Saint Petersburg stay open in the evening, which ones have a long Wednesday, and why the ticket desk cl...

How to book the St Petersburg metro museum, why the tunnels run 86 metres down, and what you can see yourself for a sing...

Five apartment museums in St Petersburg — Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, Brodsky and Nabokov — with 2026 prices, openin...

There is no single free day in the city. The Kunstkamera opens free on the third Thursday from September to April, the R...

An honest look at Leningrad Zoo: ticket prices, why entry closes an hour before the zoo does, which animals are there, a...

Hotels sell rooms, escape rooms sell teams of two, private tours sell whole groups. What gets expensive when you travel ...

The monastery on the Tikhvinka opens at six in the morning, and the miraculous icon came back here in 2004. Hours, phone...

The historic planetarium at Alexandrovsky Park sells tickets per hall and admits no latecomers; Planetarium No 1 in a fo...

Open daily 9:00-18:00 from 1 April to 30 September, ticket office until 17:30, closed on the last Thursday of each month...

Summer hours from 1 May: daily 10:00-18:00, ticket office closes 30 minutes earlier. Climbing the walls and towers is fo...

St Isaac's Cathedral is two separate purchases. Inside, a museum with mosaics, malachite and a forty-year construction s...

The fortress opens 26 April to 31 October. From 1 November until navigation reopens there is no boat to the island, so t...

Bus 101 from Staraya Derevnya goes straight to the park, entry to the Island of Forts is free, and both museums close on...

Catherine Palace tickets go on sale exactly seven days ahead, in timed slots. Prices, autumn park hours and how to get t...

The palace opens 10:00–18:00 and closes on Mondays, with the ticket office shutting at 17:00. Adult entry is 700 roubles...

The Kunstkamera closes on Mondays and the last Tuesday of the month, the Peterhof fountains stop on 18 October, and any ...

A kilometre from Udelnaya metro the city turns into a dacha village: a sky-blue wooden church of 1906, the Orlov-Denisov...

Three big indoor options — and three very different days out. How to choose by your child’s age and energy budget, not b...

St Petersburg two most photographed churches stand fifteen minutes apart. St Isaac is about scale and the colonnade view...

St Petersburg two great museums stand ten minutes apart but talk about different things: the Hermitage is world art insi...

Valaam is a monastery archipelago in northern Lake Ladoga, reached by hydrofoil from Sortavala or by ship from Saint Pet...

Pskov is the overnight trip from Saint Petersburg: a frontier fortress at a river confluence, 12th-century frescoes at M...

The Konstantinovsky Palace stands on the Gulf of Finland shore in Strelna, approximately 19 kilometers southwest of cent...

Oreshek Fortress sits on Orekhovy Island in the Neva River near the town of Shlisselburg, approximately 50 kilometers ea...

Leningrad Zoo stands as Russia's oldest zoological garden, established in 1865 in the heart of Saint Petersburg. Located...

Staraya Ladoga stands as one of Russia's oldest settlements, located approximately 120 kilometers northeast of Saint Pet...

The Grand Choral Synagogue stands as the second-largest synagogue in Europe and represents one of Saint Petersburg's mos...

The Datsan Gunzechoinei stands as the northernmost Buddhist temple in the world, located in the Primorsky District of Sa...

The Saint Petersburg Cathedral Mosque, with its ribbed turquoise dome and tall minarets, was one of the largest mosques ...

Experience Soviet gaming culture at Saint Petersburg's Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines. Adult tickets 850 rubles includ...

The Museum of the Siege and Defence of Leningrad offers free self-guided entry to its powerful permanent exhibition. Aud...

Penaty is Ilya Repin's seaside estate museum in Repino, 45 km from St Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland — 600 of the pai...

The Russian Vodka Museum in St Petersburg is the world's first museum dedicated to vodka, near St Isaac's Square, with a...

The Central Naval Museum in St Petersburg is one of the world's largest maritime museums, with 800,000+ exhibits, ship m...

The Zoological Museum in Saint Petersburg is one of the world's ten largest natural-history museums, famous for its mamm...

The Artillery Museum in Saint Petersburg is the oldest military museum in Russia, founded in 1703, with tanks, guns and ...

The Tauride Palace (Tavrichesky Dvorets) stands as one of Saint Petersburg's most significant neoclassical landmarks, co...

The Summer Garden stands as Russia's oldest public park, established by Peter the Great in 1704 along the Neva River emb...

Smolny Cathedral represents the pinnacle of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli's architectural genius in Saint Petersburg, c...

Adult admission to Menshikov Palace costs 500 rubles (approximately €5) as of 2026, with reduced rates of 250 rubles for...

Erarta Museum stands as Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art, occupying a renovated 10,000-square-meter i...

The Russian Railway Museum in Saint Petersburg houses over 28,000 exhibits spanning two centuries of rail history, makin...

The massive steel hull of the Cruiser Aurora sits permanently moored at the Petrogradskaya Embankment, a silent sentinel...

Standing right on Nevsky Prospekt, the massive colonnade of the Kazan Cathedral commands attention with a grandeur that ...

Oranienbaum stands as the sole imperial estate near Saint Petersburg that survived the Nazi siege completely intact beca...

Planeta Neptun stands as Russia's first large-scale oceanarium, occupying 5,000 square meters inside the Planeta Neptun ...

While the grandeur of Peterhof and the literary history of Tsarskoye Selo draw massive crowds, a quieter imperial treasu...

Planetarium No 1 in Saint Petersburg has the largest planetarium dome in the world — 37 meters across — inside a former ...

The Faberge Museum in Saint Petersburg houses the world's largest collection of works by Carl Fabergé, including nine im...

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the birthplace of Saint Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great on May 27, 1703, on Zayach...

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood operates daily from 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM, with extended hours until 10:30 PM on...

Hermitage Museum Visiting Guide 2026: Tickets, Hours, Must-See Halls Planning Your Visit to the State Hermitage Museum T...

Best Museums in Saint Petersburg for Art Lovers Under 3 Hours The State Hermitage Museum: A Masterpiece Marathon The Sta...

Adult tickets price **EUR 12.00** when purchased online, while the on‑site price is **USD 13.20**. Discounts are availab...

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A foreign visitor pays 2,500 ₽ for the Lower Park and 2,700 ₽ for the Grand Palace — against 900–1,100 ₽ and 1,000 ₽ for...

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