Europe’s leading publisher of locally produced city guide
ESSENTIAL CITY GUIDES
St. Petersburg
Sightseeing in St. Petersburg
- Arriving and Transport
- Mail and Phones
- Studying Russian Language
- St. Petersburg Culture and Events
- Hotels in St. Petersburg
- Restaurants and Cafes in St. Petersburg
- St. Petersburg Nightlife
- Sightseeing in St. Petersburg
- Shopping in St. Petersburg
- Consulates
- Expat
- Business Directory
- Health, Sports and Lifestyle
Free Download
Features
- The Magnificent Mariinsky
- Volga Dream
- Spooks in the City
- Leningrad Symphony
- Peter the Great
- Russian superstitions
- Lenintown
- Great Russian Beer Test
- Bridges of St. Petersburg
- Hermitage - the Ultimate Guide
- How Russians Say I do
- Russian People: Horsegirls
- Russian People: Babushkas
- Heroes of Russian Folklore: meet these homegrown favourite lads
- Children of the Revolution
- Chizhik & those Sphinxes: Quirky tales behind even quirkier statues
- Poor, paranoid Paul
- The Russian Banya
- Revolution!
- Great Russian Women
- The secrets of Russian caviar
- Caucasian cuisine – A taste of the South
- The Russian Kitchen
-
See all features »
« Hide features
Sightseeing in St. Petersburg
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
-
House of Peter the Great
-
F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum
-
Stalin’s metro
-
Soviet city
-
Sampsonievsky Cathedral
-
Artillery Museum
If weapons are your thing, then you'll enjoy having a look around this stockpile of old Russian and foreign military vehicles, different pieces of artillery, as well as artillery armaments and ammunition, rifles, military-engineering equipment, banners, military uniforms and insignia numbering more that 850,000 items. Read on
-
Loft Project Etagi
-
Cruiser Avrora
-
Anna Akhmatova Museum
Latest Comments:
City Tour Bus
I enjoyed it a lot! Though I am a citizen of Russia and have been living in Saint Petersburg for several years I must say that this city was lacking a service of this kind....The Griffin's tower
Impossible to access or view due to huge metal gates with spikes on top...City Tour Bus
We Took the City Tour Bus Abs we're really disappointed!! Since it was a hop on hop off we hopped off at the church of spoiled blood finished the visit and then We waited over 1 Hour for the bus and it didn't Show up so went by foot to Eremitage finished the Tour there and again waited 50 Min....Astra Marine
This company states that it offers a tour with an English audioguide but even when turned to maximum volume neither of us could hear more than an occasional phrase on our headset....City Tour Bus
I'm not sure I understood the "2 hours interval between stops" thing. Does this mean it takes ...Blockade Museum (State Museum of the Defense and Blockade of Leningrad)
A Must see for WW II interests ! while in ST PETE ! for My Russian wife and I in Oct 2009 visited this excellent WW II related site I have always had a great interest in WW II on the eastern front the German and Russian side of the war....City Tour Bus
Dear Jorge,The audio-guides are also available in Spanish, Italian, German and French.- ...City Tour Bus
i want know if the traduccion is also in spanish...Dolphinarium
I rate this dolphin show better than what I saw at the National Aquarium at the Baltimore inner harbor....F. M. Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum
This is a lovely, informative museum that gives a good idea of Dostoevsky the man. The little film at the end of the exhibit is especially interesting....Icebreaker Krassin
The icebreaker Krassin is the best way to feel the history of Russia. You can see the changes of the centuries in this museum....Museum of the History of the Russian Political Police
Dear Bernarnd, finally I managed to talk to a specialist from this Museum. She told me that they have no idea that such training was possible and that in the Soviet Union there was even enough bases for training....Museum of the History of the Russian Political Police
Might there be any information on the women NKVD agents who were trained by British Special Operations Executive in UK in WW2 to be parachuted into occupied Europe?I have researched RAF Tempsford, the top secret airfield, from where the agents were flown out from....Museum of the St. Petersburg Avant-garde (Matushin house)
We went to this little all-in-it-self-avantgarde-tree-house that stands there in between high and so not matching stone high-rises....Oranienbaum / Lomonosov
We are very sorry for the mistake we made in the previous print. We have checked and unfortunately the palace and pavillions are now only open on weekends so that they can be restored during the weekdays....