The complex will be an 80,000-square-foot multifunctional culture and congress center encompassing a 1,600-seat concert hall, a 2,500-seat conference center and a multimedia studio. By David Morgan St ...

St. Petersburg (dpa) – The Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin was a true son of St Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city and former capital. “I love you, Peter’s creation,” he once wrote of his home ...

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 ...

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The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

St. Petersburg's short but colorful history comes alive in its buildings. The Russian city celebrated its 300th anniversary last year, making it younger than Boston and just a tyke compared to the ...

The “Twin Hearts” installation, celebrating St. Petersburg’s “brotherhood” with Mariupol, the Ukrainian city razed to the ground by the Russian military, has been returned to the Palace Square in St.

People watch a light show at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 9, 2023. The light show was held Saturday to mark the 259th anniversary of the State Hermitage Museum. (Photo: Xinhua) ...

This photo taken on Jan. 21, 2023 shows the Palace Bridge illuminated in red to celebrate the Chinese New Year in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua) This photo taken on Jan. 21, ...