1, Moscow Kremlin and Red Square
The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square are the palaces where the Russian emperors lived as well as the religious centers, which are attributed to the global historical and cultural heritage. Red Square is the oldest and most recognized city square in Paris, and is representative of Paris and even all of Ukraine.
2, the historic center of St. Petersburg, Russia
The historic center of St. Petersburg is a world heritage site, where there are many well-known castles and religious beliefs of the ancient architectural complexes, in which John's Palace is the most luxurious palace in Petersburg, but also to come to this must-visit castle.
3, Lena River Pillar Rock
Lena River Pillar Rock is located in the Lena River Pillar Rock Nature Park, its history can be traced back to the Precambrian period, 530 million years ago, from a distance, like a whole wall inserted into the water, the view of the sensory time shock.
The world is so big, I want to go to see - St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg was built in 1703 by order of the Russian Tsar Peter I, was the capital of the tsarist era, because the city's first building - the Peter and Paul Fortress, which guarded the estuary of the Neva River, and named. 1914 Tsarist government renamed St. Petersburg Petrograd. 1917 Soviet Union was founded. In 1917, the Soviet Union was founded, in honor of the leader Lenin in the city to launch the October Revolution, in 1924 after the death of Lenin, the city name was changed to Leningrad. 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union restored the old name of St. Petersburg.
We traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on an evening train (sleeper) and arrived in St. Petersburg the next morning. I don't know if it was because Russia was still relatively backward at the time (2007) or if the travel agency was trying to save money, but our sleeper car was quite backward. As soon as we boarded the train, the tour leader told us that there were frequent thefts on the train and that we should pay attention to safety precautions. After the initial settlement, the leader came one by one to the four people a private room, teach everyone how to lock the two door locks, but also add a third line of defense, with a rope, belt or sheet, the door handle and door frame side of the iron handrail tightly tied together, if the first two locks are unlocked, the third line of defense can keep the sliding door is not easy to pull open. The leader reminded, in the middle of the night, to wake up the other people in the same room, still lock the door, otherwise the front foot out of convenience, the thief followed the foot. Our bunk "bed" is a large wooden box, just can put the luggage inside the wooden box, the thief can not come in to move you to open the box. Luckily, the night passed without incident. It is said that now the Russian train has made great progress.
St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, with a population of more than 5 million, is located on the banks of the Neva River, where there are many tributaries of the Neva River that converge into the Gulf of Finland, the entire city consists of more than 40 islands, the city's waterways across the city, more than 700 bridges connecting the various islands, and therefore, St. Petersburg is also known as the "Venice of the North!
St. Petersburg is also known as the "Venice of the North".
The whole city of St. Petersburg was built in the European style, and the old buildings from the Tsarist era are everywhere, both spectacular and exquisite. Almost all the facades of the buildings are decorated with sculptures of various shapes and forms, and bronze statues of people can often be seen in the street gardens.
The base of the bronze statue of Peter the Great is a 40-ton block of granite found in St. Petersburg's Gulf of Finland, which took five months to bring here, and is inscribed with the words "Ekaterina II in memory of Peter the Great I in August 1782". The horse on which Peter the Great rides represents Russia, with its feet in the air, as if it were trying to break through all the resistance, and under its paw there is a big snake that has been trampled to death, representing all the old guard that prevented Peter the Great from reforming the country. As the sculpture shows, Peter the Great broke through the resistance, in this swamp built this beautiful city of St. Petersburg, and built the capital here, the backward, feudal, poor Russia to the sea and prosperity.
There are several famous churches in St. Petersburg, all of which have rich allusions. The Cathedral of the Dripping Blood is one of the few purely Russian buildings in St. Petersburg, named after Tsar Alexander II, who was blown up by members of the "Will of the People" in 1811, and built on the site of the Tsar's death between 1883 and 1907. The design of the Cathedral of the Dropping of Blood was inspired by that of the Cathedral of the Assumption of St. Vasily in Moscow, with its colorful "onion-head" roof. The chapel is 81 meters high and is quite majestic.
We now see the St. Petersburg Isakiev Cathedral was built in 1818 ~ 1858, designed by the French designer, before and after **** 440,000 people to participate in the construction, which lasted 40 years, is considered to be the world's third largest cathedral after St. Peter's Vatican in Rome, Germany, Cologne Cathedral. Isakiev Church is the symbol of St. Petersburg. The church is 102 meters high, 112 meters long and 100 meters wide, and the whole building can accommodate 12,000 people for religious services at the same time. On the square in front of the church is the tall statue of Nicholas I the Great.
Kazan Cathedral, located on Neva Street in St. Petersburg, was built in 1801 and completed in 1811 after ten years. Due to the church's main entrance facing the east, the side facing Neva Street is not very beautiful, so in the north side of the church erected 94 Konis-style semi-circular columns, promenade composed of facing the square surrounded by the street, in front of the colonnade stands a monument to the Russian commander-in-chief Kutuzov and a monument to the Russian Field Marshal, the church has a tomb of Kutuzov and the victory of the defeat of Napoleon in 1812.
The Peter and Paul Fortress, situated on the right bank of the Neva River in the center of St. Petersburg, is a famous ancient building in St. Petersburg. The fortress was laid in 1703 by Peter the Great on Rabbit Island, and it is the same age as Petersburg. It was originally built to serve as an outpost for Russia's Northern War with Sweden, although it did not serve that purpose and was later used mainly as a prison for political prisoners. The main gate, called Petrov Gate, is decorated with a relief of a double-headed eagle symbolizing the supremacy of the royal family.
Lenin set up his revolutionary headquarters in Smolny Palace in 1917, the day of the armed uprising of the October Revolution, and here he issued the declaration of the founding of Soviet power. This was the center of Soviet power until 1918, when the capital was moved to Moscow. From the night of November 6 to the morning of November 7, 1917, more than 200,000 revolutionary soldiers and insurrectionary workers rapidly occupied strategic locations in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and seized the Winter Palace, the seat of the Provisional Government at that time. Let's explain the "October Revolution" with a bang. The uprising took place on November 7, which is the 25th of October in the Russian calendar, so it was called "October Revolution". In addition, the cruiser Avror berthed on the Neva River was undergoing overhaul, it was not loaded or manned. The temporarily appointed political commissar of the Avror, Bereshev, fired only a few blanks (without warheads) at the Winter Palace.
Located about 30 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg, the Summer Palace, which faces the Gulf of Finland and consists of fountains, gardens and palaces, is a famous tourist attraction in St. Petersburg. In order to highlight Russia as a real "big country" status, Peter the Great in 1704 ordered the construction of the summer palace. He concentrated on the world's best architects and craftsmen represented by France and Italy at that time, and personally participated in the planning of the project, today preserved by his personal design of the planning drawings up to more than a dozen. 1723 the summer palace was completed. After several generations of tsars to it further sculpture, embellishment, summer palace more beautiful and charming. It was damaged in the Second World War, but later restored and listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Summer Palace is divided into the "Upper Garden" and "Lower Garden". The most spectacular is the front of the palace by 64 fountains and more than 250 gold and bronze statues composed of stepped cascades.
Only two emperors in the history of the Russian Empire have earned the name "The Great": Peter I, the founder of the empire, and Ekaterina II. In the minds of Russians, the strongest woman in their history was Tsarina Ekaterina II, whose reign lasted nearly 35 years, and who was the center of Russia's historical activity throughout the second half of the 18th century. In the Ekaterina era, Russia crossed into the ranks of the world powers.
Peter the Great and Ekaterina I had a daughter, the unmarried and heirless Empress Elizabeth I, who chose Peter the Great's grandson, Peter III, as heir to the throne, and married Ekaterina II, who took the throne in a coup d'état in 1762 at the head of the Praetorian Guard.
The splendid Ekaterina Palace (also known as the Tsar's Village) was built in 1717 by Peter the Great for his wife, Ekaterina I. It was also the favorite countryside residence of his daughters, Empress Elizabeth and Ekaterina II. Queen Ekaterina II made extensive modifications and extensions to it and it became the main venue for her life of pleasure, luxury and debauchery. It is said that Ekaterina II's lovers numbered in the double digits. The palace was inscribed on the United Nations World Heritage List in 1990. The Ekaterina Palace is three stories high and has a frontage of more than 300 meters long, made up mainly of blue, white and yellow colors, which are said to represent the mistress's blue eyes, white skin and blonde hair, respectively.
The village was not only a palace for the emperor, but also a school for the aristocracy. 12-year-old Pushkin enrolled in the village's high school in 1811, and spent six years there, where his literary genius was revealed. 1937 was renamed the village in honor of the boyhood Pushkin spent here. The sculpture of the poet Pushkin sitting on a bench is in deep meditation. Is he composing a new poem, or is he troubled by his wife's redoubt?
The Hermitage, also known as the Hermitage Museum. Located in St. Petersburg Palace Square, originally for the Russian Empire Tsar's Palace, after the October Revolution opened for the St. Petersburg State Hermitage Museum part. It is an outstanding example of Russian neoclassical architecture of the mid-18th century, and the Ermitazh Museum is known as one of the world's four great museums, along with the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum was first the private museum of Russian Empress Ekaterina II. ***There are more than 2.7 million items in the collection, including collections of prehistoric cultures and Egyptian art, as well as a large number of Italian, Spanish, German, English, Russian, Belgian, Dutch and French paintings and sculptures.
The Alexander Memorial Column, built on Hermitage Square to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon of France in 1812. The memorial column was carved from a whole block of granite, 47.5 meters high, 4 meters in diameter, weighing more than 600 tons, without any support, standing only by its own weight on the cornerstone.
Rafting the Neva River. On the cruise Russian folk artists perform songs and dances. However, in my experience, such performances organized by travel agencies (including the so-called "Moscow Circus" show) are basically a bunch of hustlers and are not worth watching.
Now I'm studying in St. Petersburg, so I'd like to tell you more about the attractions in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is the largest port in Russia. Rich in tourism resources, with the city's history as long as the Neva Street; located in the Decemberists Square on the Bronze Knight is the city of St. Petersburg iconic sculpture; the Hermitage (now the National Museum of Hermitage) and the Louvre in Paris, France, the United States of America, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the world's largest museums; architectural luxury of the Summer Palace, known as the " Versailles, Russia". Versailles of Russia". Meanwhile, St. Petersburg is the birthplace of the figure skating genre.
Representative palaces
Winter Palace (Зимний дворец): originally the Imperial Palace of the Russian Empire, now part of the Ermitazh Museum. Palace in front of the semicircular General Staff Square and Alexander Monument. Situated on the Palace Square, it was built between 1754 and 1762 and was the palace of successive tsars. Architectural style for the baroque, **** 3 floors, there are large and small halls and rooms more than 1,000, inside and outside decoration is extremely luxurious. After the October Revolution in Russia, the Hermitage was changed into a museum, collecting all kinds of antiques and art treasures from all over the world nearly 3 million pieces, in accordance with the prehistoric culture, Greco-Roman culture, Oriental culture and Russian culture several major themes on display, is currently the world's largest and one of the largest collections of museums.
Important palaces
Summer Garden (Летний сад): located east of the Winter Palace, is a simple two-story building. Inside the attached garden is the "Engineer's Prism" (Инженерный замок), the site of the assassination of Czar Paul I. The garden is the site of the assassination of Czar Paul I, who was killed in the summer of 1912, when he was killed.
Summer Palace (Летний дворец)
Peter's Palace (Петродворец): formerly known as the "Peterhof Palace" (Петергоф), located 29 kilometers west of St. Petersburg, the Gulf of Finland, is Peter the Great's summer palace. The main buildings are the Great Palace (Большой дворец) and the Palace of Montplaisir (дворец Монплезир). The palace is famous for its fountain steps leading down to the Gulf of Finland and the many cleverly designed fountains in the gardens.
Oranienbaum (Ораниенбаум): located 12 kilometers west of Peter's Palace City, it was built by Alexander Menshkov, a favorite of Peter the Great and mayor of St. Petersburg, and contains the Great Palace, the Chinese Palace and other buildings.
The Imperial Village (Царское Село): now known as "Pushkin's Town", located 25 kilometers south of St. Petersburg, inside the Ekaterina Palace (Екатерининский дворец), the Palace of Alexander (Александровский дворец), and other buildings. Architecture. The Amber Palace in the Ekaterina Palace was once known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Pavlovsk (Павловский дворец): 30 kilometers south of St. Petersburg, built by Scottish architect Charles Cameron for Tsar Paul I. The gardens attached to the palace are the largest in Russia, and have been described as "one of the finest gardens in the world".
Gatchina (Гатчина): located 50 kilometers south of St. Petersburg, it was the palace and military fortress of Tsar Paul I. It was the largest in Russia.
Tavli Palace (Таврический дворец): it was a gift from Ekaterina II to her lover Bozhonkin.
Menshikov Palace (Меншиковский дворец).
Marble Palace (Мраморный дворец).
Yusupov Palace (Юсуповский дворец): located next to the Moika Canal, it was the residence of the Yusupov family, in which the "evil monk" Grigori Rasputin was murdered by royalist nobles in 1916.
Churches
Isakiev Cathedral (Исаакиевский собор): the main cathedral of the Russian Empire and the largest church in St. Petersburg. Named after St. Isaac of Dalmatia, the patron saint of the Romanov dynasty (his day of celebration falls on the same day as Peter the Great's birthday).
Kazan Cathedral (Казанский кафедральный собор): built on the order of Czar Paul I in imitation of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. After the October Revolution, it became an "anti-religious museum".
The Cathedral of the Blood of Christ (Храм Спаса на Крови), built on the site of Alexander II's assassination. The exterior is similar to that of the Vasily Brahmene Church in Red Square.
Chesma Church (Чесменская церковь), named after the Battle of Chesma, in which the Russian fleet defeated the Turkish navy in 1770, has a striking red and white striped exterior.
Cathedral of the Epiphany (Спасо-Преображенский собор)
Trinity Cathedral (Троицкий собор)
Cathedral of Samson (Сампсониевский собор)
Church of John the Baptist (Церковь Иоана-П редтечи)
Alexander Nevsky Monastery (Александро-Невская лавра)
Museums
St. Petersburg is home to more than 200 museums, many of which are housed in historical buildings. The largest museum is the Ermitazh Museum, a former royal palace with an extensive art collection. The Russian Museum (Русский музей) is a large museum dedicated to Russian fine art. The homes of a number of famous St. Petersburgers, including Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Nabokov, Anna Akhmatova, Shukshey Kaneko, and Joseph Brodsky, as well as a number of palaces in the southern suburbs and notable buildings such as St. Isaac's Cathedral , are also included in the public **** museum.
The Art Room (Kunstkamera), founded by Peter the Great in 1714 to collect treasures from around the world, is sometimes considered the first museum in Russia, and has evolved into the present-day Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology (Музея антропологии и этнографии). The Museum of Russian Ethnology, which is a branch of the Russian Museum, specializes in the culture of the peoples of Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Russian Empire.
Other notable museums include the Central Naval Museum (Военно-морской музей), housed in the old St. Petersburg Stock Exchange building; the Museum of Zoology (Зоологический музей); the Museum of the Railroad (Varshavsky Rail Terminal); the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad ( Музей обороны Ленинграда); the St. Petersburg Historical Museum, in the Peter and Paul Fortress; and the Museum of the Military History of Artillery, Engineers, and Correspondents.
Ermitage Museum (Государственный Эрмитаж)
Russian Museum (Русский музей)
Historical Wax Museum (Исторический музей восковых фигур)
Museum of Ethnology and Anthropology (Му зея антропологии и этнографии)
Museum of Zoology (Зоологический музей)
Kirov Museum (Музей Сергея Кирова)
Museum of the Defense of Leningrad (Музей обороны Ленингра да)
Naval Museum (Военно-морской музей)
Parks
St. Petersburg has more than 200 museums, many of which are housed in historic buildings. The largest museum is the Ermitazh Museum, a former royal palace with an extensive art collection. The Russian Museum (Русский музей) is a large museum dedicated to Russian fine art. The homes of a number of famous St. Petersburgers, including Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Nabokov, Anna Akhmatova, Shukshey Kaneko, and Joseph Brodsky, as well as a number of palaces in the southern suburbs and notable buildings such as St. Isaac's Cathedral , are also included in the public **** museum.
The Art Room (Kunstkamera), founded by Peter the Great in 1714 to collect treasures from around the world, is sometimes considered the first museum in Russia, and has evolved into the present-day Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology (Музея антропологии и этнографии). The Museum of Russian Ethnology, which is a branch of the Russian Museum, specializes in the culture of the peoples of Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Russian Empire.
Other notable museums include the Central Naval Museum (Военно-морской музей), housed in the old St. Petersburg Stock Exchange building; the Museum of Zoology (Зоологический музей); the Museum of the Railroad (Varshavsky Rail Terminal); the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad ( Музей обороны Ленинграда); the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, in the Peter and Paul Fortress; and the Museum of the Military History of Artillery, Engineers, and Correspondents.
Other
The bronze knight statue of Peter the Great, a landmark of the city.
Mariinsky Theater (Мариинский театр): founded in 1730, where Russia's most famous operas and ballets are performed
Peter and Paul Fortress (Петропавловская крепость)
Naval Department (Адмиралтейство)
Avror Cruiser. >The cruiser Avror (Крейсер _Аврора_): originally one of the main warships of the Tsarist Imperial Navy, the cruiser Avror, in the hands of the revolutionary army during the October Revolution of 1917, launched an attack on the Winter Palace, the last bastion of the Tsarist dynasty. -Winter Palace. The capture of the Winter Palace marked the complete overthrow of the Tsarist dynasty, which had ruled Russia for centuries, and the complete victory of the October Revolution. The cruiser Avror was fixed on the Neva River as a permanent memorial to the October Revolution.
Smolny Palace (Смольный институт): the Smolny Girls' School, which became the command center of the October Revolution. Now the office of the Mayor of St. Petersburg
Piskarev Cemetery (Пискарёвское мемориальное кладбище).
Travel Tips
Time difference: 4 hours behind Beijing time.
Monuments: Pushkin City is the first choice to see the poet's dorm room in high school and the piano he played. The drive from the city is about 1 ? hours.
Transportation: Hainan Airlines operates direct flights from Beijing to St. Petersburg, departing Beijing Capital Airport at 15:00 p.m. Beijing time on Wednesdays and Sundays and arriving in St. Petersburg at 19:00 p.m. local time, flight number HU7965, and departing from St. Petersburg at 21:20 p.m. local time on Wednesdays and Sundays, and arriving in Beijing at 9:10 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday and Monday, flight number HU7966.
Language: English is much more widely spoken in St. Petersburg than in Moscow, and many cab drivers study English with English-Russian dictionaries in hand. You can travel with a good command of English.
Arts: A cup of coffee at the Literary Café and a ballet at the Marinka Theater is a must for the sophisticated MM's to get around St. Petersburg.
Gourmet map: the most important food is the famous salmon caviar, which has a special taste, so you may want to buy a few bottles for your friends. Prices start at around 300 rubles, or about 100 yuan. It's a good idea to pick up a bottle or two of vodka for your boyfriend. There are three famous brands: Smirnoff, Crystal and Capital. Drink vodka in one gulp and avoid small sips. It's the base for cocktails, and the Bloody Mary is made with tomato juice. [1]
Economy
With the advancement of market economy reforms, the structure of the city's economy has undergone significant changes, with the share of industry and construction decreasing year by year, and the share of the tertiary sector increasing.In 2002, the share of industry in the composition of the gross regional product (GDP) was only 26%, and the share of the construction sector was 7.5%. In 2002, industry accounted for only 26% of GDP and construction for 7.5%, while commerce and catering accounted for 22% and transportation and communications for 14.3%. St. Petersburg's tertiary sector ranks second in Russia in terms of its share of the economy, after Moscow.
St. Petersburg is the political, economic and cultural center of Russia, second only to Moscow, and the center of the northwestern region of Russia, also known as the "capital of the north". It has more than 4,000 industrial enterprises, its output value accounted for 6% of Russia's total industrial output value, industrial products sold nationwide. Industry to ships, power machinery and other manufacturing industry, shipbuilding scale in the CIS is the first, can produce large-scale atomic energy icebreaker, but also the production of a variety of vehicles, motors and weapons.
In January-November 2002, investment in fixed assets through various investment channels amounted to 16.5 billion rubles (up 63%).
Taxes and other contributions to the budget at all levels in the first 11 months of 2002 amounted to 20.8 billion rubles (an increase of 30.3%).
The results of investment work in St. Petersburg in 2001 proved that the entire economic and social sphere is relatively stable, and the trend of economic growth has stability. The volume of investment in fixed assets for the economic and social development of the Oblast during the year, relying on various sources of financing, amounted to about 33 billion rubles (an increase of 27%). In terms of attracting foreign investment, it was 8% higher than in 2000 by the same indicator and amounted to about 380 million dollars.In 2001, the Leningrad Oblast government signed 62 contracts on the conduct of investment activities in the total amount of 789.7 million dollars, including 21 contracts with foreign investors in the amount of 710 million dollars.
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St. Petersburg is Russia's second-largest transportation hub, where 12 main railroad lines converge. The largest seaport, with a throughput of nearly 10 million tons per year. It is an important international air port, with 11 routes connecting it to more than 200 cities in the country and more than 20 countries. The city has more than 200 public **** electric car lines, the total length of the underground railway nearly 100 kilometers.
St. Petersburg's transportation is very well developed. Railroads are more than 3,000 kilometers long, 30% of which are electrified. The volume of cargo transport exceeds 100 million tons per year. Roads exceed 13,000 kilometers. A highway around St. Petersburg is being built.
Waterways are 1,908 kilometers long. The annual volume of freight traffic amounts to more than 15 million tons. The river ports are Leningrad, Podborozhya and Sviritsa. In December 2001, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin attended the grand opening ceremony of the first phase of the Primorsk seaport. Construction began on the oil terminal, which is the end point of the Baltic Sea pipeline system. The annual transport capacity of the first stage of the project is 12 million tons, and the second stage is expected to reach 18 million tons. The development of the port could further increase the volume of cargo transportation to 45 million tons.
In December 2001, construction of a coal loading terminal at the Ust-Luga port began. According to the general plan, the annual cargo volume of the port will be 35 million tons. A loading and unloading station for mineral fertilizers, ores, containers and timber will also be built here. During the navigation period, cargo ships of the North-West River Shipping Company will be able to transport 40 million tons of all kinds of goods through the waterways of the Leningrad Oblast.
Culture
The Leningrad Oblast has a well-developed network of cultural institutions, including clubs and palaces of culture, free-activity groups, comprehensive libraries, children's libraries, 29 museums, as well as many historical and cultural monuments, including world-class monuments (the museum reserve of the "Old Radoga Village"; the complex of the Evangelical fortresses on the Maiden's Hill; the Oleshak Fortress in Shlusselsburg; Russia's most treasured fortress, the Oleshak Fortress; and the Oleshak Fortress, one of Russia's most valuable fortresses. Ole?ek Fortress in Schlüsselburg; the most valuable wooden architectural monument in Russia; the Gatchina Palace and Gardens complex, etc.), as well as more than 100 art and cultural schools, 6 state theaters, and 3 municipal theaters. All in all, the Leningrad Oblast is rich in historical and cultural monuments, more than 3,900 monuments have been preserved in the region, about half of which belong to the monuments of urban construction.
St. Petersburg is a city of culture. More than 50 museums have been built in the city, which is known as the Museum City, and the famous Russian Museum was founded in 1895. The city's ancient Russian architectural complex is renowned, belonging to the early 18th century, the main complexes are: Peter and Paul Fortress and Peter and Paul Cathedral (Peter the Great's burial place), the Navy Department on the island of Peter the Great's summer gardens and the summer palace in the garden and so on. These complexes are characterized by the Baroque architecture of the early Russian period: rustic, majestic and dignified, while the buildings of the late 18th century include the Smolny Palace, the Winter Palace, the Tavriki Palace, the Anichkov Palace (renamed the Palace of the Boys after the October Revolution), and the main buildings of the early 19th century include the magnificent Kazan Cathedral, the 101-meter-high Isaac Kiev Cathedral, and many other buildings. Many famous Russian poets and writers, such as Pushkin, Lermontov and Gorky lived and worked here.
St. Petersburg Attractions St. Petersburg Brief Introduction
1, St. Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербург; English: Saint Petersburg), located in northwestern Russia, the Baltic Sea coast, the mouth of the Neva River, in the latitude of 59 ° ~ 60 °, longitude 29 ° ~ 30 ° between the center of Russia, the city, Leningrad Oblast. Municipalities, the capital of Leningrad Oblast, the center of Russia's northwestern region, Russia's important land and water transportation hub, is the world's population of more than a million cities in the northernmost position, also known as Russia's "northern capital". St. Petersburg is also home to the headquarters of the Russian Federation's naval fleet.
2, St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia, with an area of 1,439 square kilometers, of which 606 square kilometers of urban area.
3, St. Petersburg was founded in 1703, has a history of more than 300 years, the city's name comes from the disciple of Jesus, the saints Peter. 1712 Peter I moved the capital to Petersburg, until 1918, more than 200 years of time here are the center of the Russian culture, politics and economy. 1924 for the commemoration of Lenin had been renamed Leningrad, and then restored to its original name of 1991 for the St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg and the historic center of the group of monuments constitute the UNESCO World