Weekend

Если что-то в нашей стране яростно разрушают, велика вероятность, что уже завтра то же самое будут собирать по крупицам и охранять. Так было с дореволюционным наследием, то же самое происходит и с советской эпохой...

Этой осенью Ораниенбаум празднует свое 300-летие. Город, как последний пункт Петергофской дороги, слишком часто остается не у дел. Но именно эта удаленность от проторенных троп спасла ему жизнь и подарила уникальность...

Besides three-four museums - giants where all tourists aspire with manic obstinacy, there are two more hundreds museums in our city – smaller in size or absolutely small – the citizens haven’t visited the majority of them or even have never heard of, but they are naturally noteworthy.

Besides three or four museums-giants that all tourists aspire to visit with manic obstinacy, there are two more hundreds museums in our city - smaller or absolutely small – our citizens haven’t been to the majority of them, or even haven’t heard of, but, you are to believe, they are noteworthy…

Tourists enjoy masterpieces of Rastrelli and Montferrand, they are taken around St.Petersburg of Dostoevsky and Pushkin places. But our city is not only St.Petersburg, but also Leningrad, with its recently partially forgotten, but not less wonderful monuments...

Inhabitants of marshy plains of St.Petersburg always aspired up, closer to the sky, the sun, light. High-altitude dominants in our rough terrain are rare and consequently are particularly important...

Where shall one search for Italy in St.Petersburg? Italians who live in St.Petersburg will tell what brought them here and caused to remain here - for years or even for ever...

The Catherine Palace, Pushkin Lyceum, the Cameron Gallery, the Chinese Village - is there anything new to see in Tsarskoe Selo? It is possible already since last summer!

Planes, hotels, guidebooks - today almost the whole world is open to travellers. Therefore everything unknown becomes even more attractive. Someone tries to find it at the other end of the world, in thickets, jungle or mountain heights. And we'll try to discern unusual in the very foreground…

Quiet Pargolovo bewitches today like it was two centuries ago. One won't find more suitable place for romantic walk during week-end: these trees and ponds heard many love declarations and oathes.

«The citizen of Perm who won Paris» as I.Brodsky named Sergey Djagileva, he admired Venice more than anything and eventually he departed in this city. But for St.Petersburg - Northern Venice - Dyagilev did everything he could, and even more …

In 1906 repercussion of the Russian revolution also affected Finland. At least two political attempts were prepared in Terijoki resort…

The first enemy of people appeared in Russia before the Soviet time. In March, 1901 ideas of Dr Stockmann provoked political demonstration on Nevsky prospect in St.Petersburg. it happened when the Moscow Art Theatre was touring in St.Petersburg and it staged the play of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen «An Enemy of the People» under the title "Dr. Stokmann". Stanislavsky himself played the main part …

Alexandre Dumas- descendant of Rurik … Having learnt about it, I was not at all surprised. Who can be more Russian than the author of " Three musketeers"? Probably that was the reason why he was so aspired to go to Russia and in 1858-1859 has travelled from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus

To imagine Florentine palazzo Strozzi and interiors of Venetian palazzo Ducale, it's not necessary to leave the Northern Capital. You should just walk around grand-ducal residences…

Sphinxes on quay. Ancient Gods on facades of houses… we rarely think about it, but St.Petersburg is literally impregnated with Egyptian ancient motives.

Could Peter the I guess when ordering to partition off the river Sister that he would create a unique resort zone?

If my friends from other cities happen to have a spare day I always invite them to go to Vyborg. After the trip nobody regrets about four hours spent for getting there, and I feel such a pride, as if I have built this city myself.