With its neoclassical architecture and picturesque maze of snow-covered canals, St Petersburg may not spring to mind as ... as their clay are not the alien breed you might expect. When Wallpaper* made ...

St Petersburg was designed to be a Janus-faced place, both the ‘window to Europe' and a fortress designed to protect Mother Russia from further Western encroachment. This is reflected in the carefully ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – From the many waterways ... appear among the countless ornamental structures of old along the canals. The boatman was waiting for a crowd to assemble before departing ...

St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 by Tsar Peter the Great, but the city is actually named after the Saint, who was mythologized in Christianity as the guardian of the keys to the gates of heaven.

states in his book ‘Original anecdotes of Peter the Great’ that Peter ordered the Vasilyevsky island in St. Petersburg to become a “little Amsterdam” with canals instead of streets ...

The big summer show at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is "My Generation ... the building of the Panama Canal on the narrowest stretch on land in Central America. When it opened officially ...

Then the canal spilled into the vast Neva River, and all of St. Petersburg spread before us. Pink, peach and violet clouds streaked the horizon. Across the river, on Zayachy Island — one of a ...