History Attractions in St. Petersburg

Peter and Paul Cathedral

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Petropavlovskaia Krepost', 3

Cathedral within a fortress...
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Aleksandrovskaia Kolonna (Alexander Column)

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Dvortsovaia Ploshchad'

Triumphal column...
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Tsarskoe Selo

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Sadovaya Ulitsa, 7
Pushkin

Tsarist legacy...
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Petropavlovskaia Krepost' (Peter and Paul Fortress)

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Petropavlovskaia Krepost' 3

The origins of St Petersburg...
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Kazanskii Sobor (Kazan Cathedral)

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Kazanskaia Ploshchad, 2
Nevsky Prospekt

Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan...
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Mednyi Sadnik (The Bronze Horseman)

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Ploschad Dekabristov

Most prominent monument to Peter the Great...
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Dvortsovaia Ploshchad' (Palace Square)

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Dvortsovaia Ploshchad'

Historic and romantic square...
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Konstantinovsky Palace

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Berezovaya al. 3

Palace on the Finnish Gulf...
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Oreshek Fortress

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Krepost Oreshek

A fortress since way back...
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Bolshoi Prospekt

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Between Makarova Emb and Kamennooserovski Prospekt

Commercial avenue approaching Tuchkov Bridge...
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Muzei Anny Akhmatovy (Anna Akhmatova Museum)

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Naberezhnaia Reki Fontanki, 34

Life and work of famous poetess...
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Mramornyi Dvorets (Marble Palace)

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Millionaia Ulitisa, 5/1

32 different kinds of marble...
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Preobrazhenskii Sobor (Cathedral of the Transfiguration)

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Preobrazhenskaia Ploshchad', 1

Beautiful and beautifully-lit cathedral...
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Iusupovskii Dvorets (Yusupov Palace)

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Naberezhnaia Reki Moiki 94

Palace of the Iusupov nobles...
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Ermitazh (Hermitage, The)

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Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, 2
Dvortsovaya Square

World famous museum...
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Gosudarstvennyi Russkii Muzei (State Russian Museum)

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Inzhenernaia Ulitsa, 4
Mickhailovsky Palace

Largest musem of Russian art...
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Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology

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Universitetskaia Naberezhnaia, 3

Of freaks and men...
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Muzei Politicheskoi Istorii Rossii (Museum of Russian Political History)

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Kuibisheva Ulitsa 2/4

Artifacts from a turbulent century...
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Domik Petra Pervogo (Peter's Cabin)

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Petrovskaia Naberezhnaia, 6

Peter the Great's house...
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Khram "Spasa na Krovi" (Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood)

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Naberezhnaia Kanala Gribeodova, 2b
Embankment of the Griboyedov Canal

Multi-colored onion-domed church...
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