Location: St. Petersburg
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The second largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg is the country’s cultural heart. View splendid architectural gems like the Winter Palace and the Kazan Cathedral, and give yourself plenty of time to browse the world-renowned art collection of the Hermitage. Sprawling across the Neva River delta, St. Petersburg offers enough art, nightlife, fine dining and cultural destinations for many repeat visits.
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1. The Anna Akhmatova Museum
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5.0 based on 368 reviews
Reviewed By alexey2612 - Moscow, Russia
It is a must-see museum to visit. It captures the atmosphere of the darkest years of the Great Purges. The Akhmatova's museum is on the upper floor. On the floor there is a Joseph Brodsky cabinet-museum. I spent some time with the cats on the first floor.
2. Yelagin Island
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5.0 based on 450 reviews
Reviewed By AliceStricke - Warsaw, Poland
I like it very much! We took a stroll along the park and found lots of amazing well-preserved marble sculptures and historical buildings.
3. Geological Museum F.N. Chernyshev
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5.0 based on 19 reviews
4. Chapel of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg
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5.0 based on 454 reviews
Reviewed By Marie-na4515
The Church if canonized St. Xenia is superb. The cemetery visitors and people with prayer that come here makes this a great place to visit.
5. Museum-Manor G.P. Derzhavin
6. The Russian Money Museum
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5.0 based on 43 reviews
Have you ever seen a tower of one million coins? Or single coin, made of 5 kilos of gold? Exhibition "History of the money" has both, as well as numerous other unique items on display. We have a first Russian ruble, automated models of the historical mint and paper mill with all staff working inside, first platinum coins in the world and geniue stamping instrument of Saint-Petersburg mint.
Reviewed By alexey2612 - Moscow, Russia
This museum is situated near the St-Petersburg Mint. That is why it is devoted to money - making of coins and bills. The facility is in the vault of the St Peter and Paul fortress. The entrance is 200 rubles for adults. It has everything about the history of money in Russia. I was interested in various forms of bills during the Civil war and the current history from 1991 which I witnessed with my own wallet.
7. Nicholas Naval Cathedral of The Epiphany
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4.5 based on 477 reviews
One of the best examples of Baroque-style architecture, this splendid blue and white "Sailors' Church" topped with five glistening golden cupolas contains many 18th-century icons, ten magnificent paintings and walls that convey the history of the Russian navy.
Reviewed By Margo7850p
St. Nicolas Cathedral is an Orthodox cathedral in St. Petersburg. It was build in 1753-1762. It is the most important and best-preserved artistic achievement of the Russian architect Savva Chevakinsky, as well as a glorious example of Elizabethan baroque style. One of the most beautiful temples in St. Petersburg. This 18th century monument of baroque architecture is a place not to be missed.
8. Applied Art Museum at the Stieglitz Academy
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4.5 based on 124 reviews
This jewel of a museum, hidden inside the Artistic Industrial Academy, is worth a visit both for the magnificent building that houses it and for its treasure trove of glass, ceramics, furniture and other fine arts and antiques.
Reviewed By 738friedaf - St. Petersburg, Russia
A true must! It reminded me of a miniature version of the V&A. I stopped by on a Saturday at around 1pm only to find out that the only way to visit the museum is via a guided tour. Fortunately a group was convening in the hall of the main lobby so I was able to join right in the nick of time. But beware the tour is in Russian, and lasts a good two hours. Had plenty of time to take photographs and take in the very beautiful rooms. Our guide opened up a variety of cabinets and secret rooms which are typically kept under lock and key. My suggestion is to call in advance and to find out when the daily tour takes place, and if there is an English speaking one. Even if there isn’t, you can still enjoy this gem of a museum and just read up on the collector-Stieglitz-and his exquisite and rare collection. Interestingly the guide didn’t tell us much about who he was, or mention his execution by the Bolsheviks. The museum was used during the Blockade to train future art restorators, in view of news filtering in about extensive damage to palaces outside the city (Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Gatchina). Many of its graduates took part in the post war restoration of the city’s destroyed palaces.
9. Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic
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4.5 based on 189 reviews
Celebrated Russian polar expeditions and rescue missions are dramatically detailed and illustrated at this museum, which contains the original small plane that carried the Chelyuskin crew to safety in a 1934 rescue operation.
10. The State Museum of the Political History of Russia
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4.5 based on 349 reviews
Reviewed By TKNgaio - Palmerston North, New Zealand
This is a great museum and it is housed in a very historical and beautiful art nouveau building. It was the home of the famous ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, and the new exhibition on the top floor of her former mansion "Fouettes of Fate" is devoted to her story and famous life in Russia and the west. She was a superb dancer and artiste and daughter of a dancer father. She was also very beautiful. She was the mistress of the last Tsar before he married, and it is rumoured that she had his treasure buried under her house - though people have never found this in the museum grounds. But the story adds to the mystery. The exhibition, though small is simply wonderful. Several of her rooms are now decorated in the style she had it and there are wonderful photographs fro her career, including her Paris studio masterclasses for famous dancers such as Fonteyn. There is a lovely film about her with English subtitles. The rest of the museum is devoted to the more usual political history of Russia. This also is excellent as it is curated exceptionally well and stylishly. For example there is a very interesting replica of a 1950's shared kitchen in an apartment and information about how acute the housing shortage was at that time. In all, this is a great museum where you can spend an hour or two.
