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The Amber Room in the Catherine Palace: History, Mystery, and How to Visit

12.05.2026

The Amber Room is not just “one of those masterpieces that attract visitors to St. Petersburg.” Quite often, it becomes the very reason people travel here. Beyond its obvious beauty, the Amber Room fascinates with its unusual, rich, and mysterious history. It was gifted and transported, expanded and lost, rediscovered and recreated. It is a riddle...

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Visit to The Hermitage Museum: Tickets, Tips, What to See

21.04.2026

The biggest. The greatest. The best. The Hermitage. You may skip the raising bridges’ show and even the Amber room in Catherine’s palace, but the absence of the Hermitage in your St. Petersburg itinerary will make you come back here since your friends and relatives will hardly understand you if you wouldn’t visit Russian museum the most...

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Vladimir Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg

28.05.2020

Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most famous writers of the second half of the XX century, left St. Petersburg (at that time Petrograd) in his youth: his family moved to Germany away from the Bolsheviks, who had taken power in 1917. The house where the future writer grew up has not changed much, its aura and atmosphere are almost the same and give a clear...

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Five-Hour Film About The Hermitage Was One Shot By iPhone

09.05.2020

That’s a really amazing idea. You take a smartphone and have it filming five hours long without a second take while you are walking around a museum. This is really possible if the smartphone is an iPhone and the museum is the Hermitage. The Longest Video Shot By iPhone Without Recharge In March 2020, the Hermitage and Apple teamed up to do what looks...

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List Of Most Popular St. Petersburg Museums With Ticket Information And Opening Hours

12.02.2020

We’ve made up a list of museums you’re most likely to visit during your stay in St. Petersburg. Schedule, price, nothing unnecessary. The list is regularly updated. Some Important Notes To The List — many museums have a lot of branches. For example, the Hermitage has a few, so we took only the most popular. In case of the Hermitage, it’s...

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Amber room , essentials , Hermitage , museum , palaces , parks , Peterhof , prices , schedules , suburbs , Tsarskoe Selo

Visiting Rules For The Catherine Palace

10.08.2019

Rules for visitors who come to the Catherine Palace at the Tsarskoe Selo (town of Pushkin) eager to see the famous Amber Room and other beautiful premises don’t differ much from the ones accepted at other great museums around the world. What makes these rules special is that missing them may result into a mess and less comfort during overcrowded high...

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View From The Colonnade Of The St. Isaac’s Cathedral

11.01.2019

The colonnade of St. Isaac’s Cathedral is the best viewing point in central St. Petersburg. 43 meters high above the downtown provide a 360-degree-panorama with major landmarks and marvelous landscapes below. It’s also accessible for disabled people. Read our guide and recommendations carefully before visiting as there are things you should keep...

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Coffee Museum In Saint Petersburg

07.09.2017

John Lennon’s favorite coffee, a coffee maker similar to that of Ludwig van Beethoven, where the most expensive coffee in the world comes from, why the Turkish clergy called the drink “devil’s black blood”, and how to distinguish Arabica from Robusta – after visiting the Museum, you can easily write a term paper about coffee. It is a pity...

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Grand Maquette Russia Museum: Photos, Tickets And Recommendations

23.08.2017

There is the biggest in Russia and the world’s second largest miniature in St Petersburg. Its theme is Russia, precisely its generalized image. This museum is the third most visited in St Petersburg after the Hermitage and St Isaac’s Cathedral. It will be of interest to everyone, including those who do not know the Russian language, who are...

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The 10 Most Prominent Paintings At The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

12.07.2017

Just a decade ago, in the pre-crisis times, the Russian art was synonymous with «big money», with buyers hunting an Aivazovsky or a Repin and being ready to pay fortunes for them as they knew they would sell them for double price. The times have changed, and another Russian art bid doesn’t make the auctioneer sweat. But the art has not...

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Erarta Museum Of Contemporary Art In St. Petersburg

30.06.2017

If you are a sceptic, we should agree with you that the contemporary art is sometimes a bit crazy and its content can be very strange and funny. But you can`t say anything like this about the Erarta museum`s exhibitions. Today, lots of modern artists have beautiful entertaining pictures and sculptors still can make interesting statues. Of course, there...

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