Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

The State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo" (St. Petersburg, Pushkin) hosted the grand opening of the interiors of the Zubovsky wing of the Catherine Palace after a large-scale restoration. The project ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...