Vasyl'evsky Ostrov

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Travel tips for Saint Petersburg (4)

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  Catherine Palace and the Amber Room, Pushkin

  The summer residence of the Russian empresses at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), 25 km south of St Petersburg.

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  Peterhof Palace and fountains

  Peter the Great's palace on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, built to rival Versailles.

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  Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, St Petersburg

  A colourful Russian-style church with onion domes, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.

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  Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace, St 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 ob…