Buildings
Catherine Palace and the Amber Room, Pushkin
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
The summer residence of the Russian empresses at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), 25 km south of St Petersburg.
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Buildings
Peterhof Palace and fountains
Peterhof, Saint Petersburg
Peter the Great's palace on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, built to rival Versailles.
Natural features
Lake Baikal at Listvyanka
Listvyanka, Irkutsk
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest and deepest lake in the world, more than 1,600 m deep, and holds about a fifth of all the fresh unfrozen water o…
Buildings
Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
A colourful Russian-style church with onion domes, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.
Historic sites
Golden Ring: Suzdal
Vladimir
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.
Attractions
Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace, St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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…
Historic sites
Kazan Kremlin
Kazan, Tatarstan
A white-walled fortress in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, where an Orthodox cathedral stands beside the blue-domed Kul Sharif Mosque, a symbol of t…
Historic sites
Kizhi Pogost
Karelia
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 b…
Historic sites
Red Square and the Kremlin, Moscow
Moscow
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…
Tours and activities
Trans-Siberian Railway
Moscow
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…