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 shores of Lake Baikal. Most travellers stop off along the way in cities such as Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude.
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Moscow's great square, with the colourful onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral at one end, the red walls and towers of the Kremlin along one side, Len…
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 summer residence of the Russian empresses at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), 25 km south of St Petersburg.
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…
Peter the Great's palace on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, built to rival Versailles.
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