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This fine palace is a little outside of the city centre. A visit to former town house of Prince Yussupov on the Moika is nevertheless worthwhile – not just because of the Rasputin myth. You can round off your visit with a walk to the picturesque Nikolaus Cathedral and the surrounding district of Kolomna, or with an evening at the Mariinski Theatre, only five minutes on foot.
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“Around the world in an afternoon” might be the motto of the Kunstkammer, as the ‘Museum for Anthropology and Ethnography’ is known. Every continent except Europe is represented in the rooms, although, since this Russia’s oldest museum is currently undergoing extensive renovation, some cultures or continents might be temporarily inaccessible.
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This luxury class museum housed in a gleaming new business centre is dedicated to the local history of the city's founding in 1703, at a time when the Neva estuary was inhabited by a mix of Finnish and Slavic groups and even German settlers, and was under Swedish rule.
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Twentieth century St. Petersburg went through a lot: revolutions, civil war and Stalinist terror. But the 900-day long siege by German troops in the 2nd World War was by far the harshest trial. This museum dedicated to the defence and blockade of Leningrad provides a memorable picture of the desperate position the city was in between May 1941 and January 1944.
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In the midst of the lively district by the Vladimir Church, beside Kusnetchny Market, is the memorial museum for Fyodor Dostoyevski. He spent the last years of his life in this typical tenement building, and died here in 1881.
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The “State Hermitage" is in every respect a museum of superlatives: It encompasses three million art exhibits from ancient times to the present day – distributed among approx. 1000 rooms in seven palaces. Alone a list of the painters on show here induces diziness: Dürer, da Vinci, Tizian, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Monet, van Gogh, Picasso ...
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Peter the Great’s Cabin is St. Petersburg’s oldest building. It was completed 10 days after the city was founded. At that time, only the foundations of the Peter-Paul fortress stood, and the rest of the Neva delta was covered in dense forest.
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The conversion of the Yelagin palace in 1818-22 was the classicist architect Carlo Rossi’s first independent commission. Only later did he achieve fame with his coherent architectural ensembles – and today he counts as one of Petersburg’s master builders. The palace is set amid a park dotted with ponds that invite you to linger by their calm waters.
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Sergei Mironovich Kirow (real name Kostrykov) was one of the most famous leading members of the Soviet Communist Party. His fame, however, derives less from the high-ranking positions he held, than the dreadful political consequences of his murder.
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The “Central Museum of the Russian Navy” on the Strelka is one of Russia’s oldest and most important museums. It was founded in 1805 during the reign of Alexander I, and even then it could draw on a sizeable collection dating from Peter the Great’s times.
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