The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

Glide above the heart of St. Petersburg with this breathtaking drone video of the Winter Palace, the former official ...

Four years after sprucing up for its 300th anniversary celebration, St. Petersburg remains the cultural crown jewel of Russia. Westerners who have never been to Russia will be stunned by the beauty of ...

Near the city where the 1917 Russian Revolution was born, the newest landmark is a once-derelict palace now transformed into a gleaming showcase for St. Petersburg's most famous living son, President ...

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