An island in Lake Onega with two remarkable wooden churches, the 22-domed Church of the Transfiguration, built in 1714 without a single nail, and a bell tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. An open-air museum shows traditional wooden houses, windmills and chapels from across Karelia.
Hydrofoils run from Petrozavodsk in summer. Many governments currently advise against travel to Russia; check your government's travel advice first.
A colourful Russian-style church with onion domes, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.
One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, in the green and white Winter Palace of the tsars on the Neva, with around 3 million objects, inc…
The summer residence of the Russian empresses at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), 25 km south of St Petersburg.
Peter the Great's palace on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, built to rival Versailles.
A small town north-east of Moscow, the jewel of the Golden Ring of medieval towns, with white churches, monasteries and wooden houses among meadows.
The longest railway line in the world, 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok, a journey of about 7 days without stops, across forests, steppe and the s…
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