Travel back in time to Imperial St Petersburg with a bit of music from the greatest Russian composers.
Explore some of St Petersburg’s most popular sights.
📍State Hermitage Museum
📍The Peterhof Palace
📍Nevsky Avenue
📍The Winter Palace
📍The Mariinsky Theatre
📍The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood
Take your lunch break with a local favourite … the Borscht soup. A mix of meat or bone stock, sautéed vegetables and beet sour, this reddish-purple soup is more filling than you would imagine. Dig in!
The Hermitage Museum is an enormous treasure trove of art spanning everything from Egyptian antiquaties to 20th-century paintings. With over three million items, seeing it all might prove difficult. But we can definitely recommend spending a couple of hours in the company of some of the most mesmerising art pieces out there.
Now that you’ve visited the Hermitage, you’ve noticed just how much there is to see. If you were to spend one minute per exhibit, it would take you around 10 years to see them all.
St Petersburg is a place of many names … well, three to be more exact: until 1914 – St Petersburg, from 1914 to 1924 – Petrograd, from 1924 to 1992 – Leningrad, and from 1992 on – again St Petersburg.
There are around 800 bridges connecting the various parts of the city. 12 of them are movable, and they are raised during early night. Once they’re up, moving between the Petrograd and Central districts becomes complicated.
We’ve got you covered. Get them excited for their trip to St Petersburg with this fun colouring activity.
Get in a cosy mood with a hot traditional Russian drink … the sbiten. This drink is based on on honey mixed with water, spices, and jam, and it can be both alcoholic or non-alcoholic. You can enjoy it cold during the summer months.
Beef Stroganoff originated in Russia in the 19th century, but many countries have adoted and re-adapted this dish.
Enjoy this dish named after the famous Stroganoffs and explore all the legends surrounding this dish.
An award-winning movie that tells the story of a hotheaded car mechanic who fights back when a corrupt mayor tries to expropriate the land of his ancestral home.
Delve into a sci-fi story centering on one family who find themselves becoming owners of a cutting-edge android on the run from a corporation, homicide investigators and terrorists.
One of the best novels of all time, this Russian classic tells a tale of mental anguish and moral dilemmas personified by an impoverished ex-student who plans to kill a crooked pawnbroker for her money.