Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

If you're visiting St. Petersburg in the summer ... For more information, visit the palace's website. Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private ...

The restoration of the Chinese Palace in the Peterhof Museum-Reserve in St. Petersburg has been completed ... Now, by the 295th anniversary of the birth of Catherine the Great, we are completing ...

Catherine's palace stood on marshy ground ... could not be sent to St Petersburg. The service was ordered in 1773 by Empress Catherine II of Russia for the Chesme Palace - at one time called ...

Catherine's palace stood on marshy ground ... could not be sent to St Petersburg. The service was ordered in 1773 by Empress Catherine II of Russia for the Chesme Palace - at one time called ...