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- 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
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Russian superstitions
Russians are a very superstitious folk, they do a whole host of strange or unusual things to ward off the bad luck and welcome in a bit of good luck.... -
Spooks in the City
Ah the romance of the canals and neo-classic buildings, the world’s best ballet and opera stars and museums filled with priceless works of art.... -
Caucasian cuisine – A taste of the South
One of the unquestionable pluses of St. Petersburg’s Soviet past is the sprinkling of restaurants serving cuisine from former USSR republics.... -
How Russians Say I do
As a tourist in St. Petersburg, it is sometimes difficult to avoid falling over the brides hovering around the city’s tourist sights posing for photos.... -
Bridges of St. Petersburg
When Peter the Great, that wonderful builder, founded the city, he envisaged a bridgeless city where everyone maneuvered around on boats in summer and in winter, cruising around on sleds....
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Adelante (Spanish centre)
j aime votre school...Baltika Brew
Its an incredibly impressive interior - I'm told it used to be a bank; even as a bank it is impressive....Barslona
Very very very good authentic Spanish food which I think is well priced for the portion sizes!...Barrel
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A club with a good location good service staff but......the girls are aggressive and nothing special in looks (for Russian standards)....Spb Bar
I went here and had the borscht and Vasileostrovskaya dark beer. It was delicious and I loved the environment....Money Honey
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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....Oliver Twist
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Visited on 29th august 2011 and the place is lovely. Service was excellent and friendly food was delicious and very reasonably priced and the atmosphere and location was more than ok....