Leningrad School of Painting
A Soviet-era current of realist painters trained around Leningrad's reformed Academy of Arts, united from 1932 to 1991…
Saint Petersburg: 77 heritage places documented by Cultural Heritage Online, street by street — what each one is, where it is, and how to see it.
A Soviet-era current of realist painters trained around Leningrad's reformed Academy of Arts, united from 1932 to 1991…
Founded by Peter the Great in 1714, this Saint Petersburg library survived a 1747 fire, siege and a…
A civic and cultural venue built by Countess Sofia Panina in 1901–1903 to bring art and theatre to…
A legendary Saint Petersburg café where Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, and Russia's greatest writers gathered on Nevsky Prospect to shape…
A neoclassical palace built 1817–1820 for Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky on Saint Petersburg's Admiralteysky Avenue, now the Four Seasons Hotel…
A neo-Gothic Lutheran church on Vasilyevsky Island, built 1871–1876, that survived Soviet-era repurposing as a warehouse before reviving…
Catherine the Great's gift to Count Orlov, this 1768 Neoclassical palace clad in 32 marbles later housed the…
Built 1839–1844 by Andrei Stackenschneider as a wedding gift for Nicholas I's daughter, this eclectic palace later housed…
Russia's premier opera house, opened in 1860, where Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov premiered their masterworks.
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