From art to architecture, St Petersburg is one of Europe’s great cultural cities. ... The baroque Catherine Palace – built by Francesco Rastrelli, designer of the Winter Palace ...

ST. PETERSBURG — Once you’ve gotten all the dad jokes about the Baroque period out of your system (personal favorite: They spent so much on the Renaissance, they all went Baroque), revel in ...

The suburbs are home to many of the tsars’ former country estates and summer palaces, including the enormous Baroque pile of Catherine Palace in Pushkin, just 25km south of St Petersburg.

Architectural Digest’s first AD Access tour of St. Petersburg, a unique partnership between the magazine and Indagare, the luxury travel group, takes place from October 9 until October 14.

St. Petersburg continually amazes me. Once a swamp, then an imperial capital, and now a showpiece of long-ago aristocratic opulence, St. Petersburg is Russia’s most accessible and tourist-worthy ...

Up until 1918 St. Petersburg was the capital of the ... and not only in terms of architecture and ... as many were built in the Baroque style. To this very day, St. Petersburg is still ...

St Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703 and was developed as a planned, modern capital for the Russian Empire connected to Western Europe via the Baltic Sea. Since 1990, the baroque ...

From art to architecture, St Petersburg is one of Europe’s great cultural cities. ... The baroque Catherine Palace – built by Francesco Rastrelli, designer of the Winter Palace ...

The suburbs are home to many of the tsars’ former country estates and summer palaces, including the enormous Baroque pile of Catherine Palace in Pushkin, just 25km south of St Petersburg.