The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

St. Petersburg reveals its imperial character most clearly during the White Nights, when the Neva reflects palace façades, cathedral domes, and granite embankments beneath a sky that never fully ...

Glide above the heart of St. Petersburg with this breathtaking drone video of the Winter Palace, the former official residence of the Russian Tsars. Witness the immense scale of this Baroque ...

Near the city where the 1917 Russian Revolution was born, the newest landmark is a once-derelict palace now transformed into a gleaming showcase for St. Petersburg's most famous living son, President ...

Influenced by his travels and yearning to bring culture to the city he built, Peter the Great opened St. Petersburg’s first museum, but worried it might not be patronized. The solution was to offer a ...