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.
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.
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…