Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper ... the surrounding 1,400-acre park features multiple fountains and bridges. Recent visitors offered lavish praise for the ...

After battling the crowds at the Hermitage and taking in countless masterpieces at the Russian Museum ... is the main reason some travelers visit St. Petersburg in the first place.

It was a brisk October morning, and the editor of the Russian outlet The Insider had suggested the meeting place: a small park with a Baroque fountain featuring the Roman god Neptune held aloft by ...

Russia is an unstable state ... I read one document from a meeting of the St. Petersburg's City Council, where issues related to the destruction of stray dogs were discussed. And there is a person ...

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Architecture and features such as this fountain in Prague's Smichov neighborhood remind exiled Alexey Levchenko of the Russian city of St. Petersburg. Watchdogs estimate about 1,500 journalists fled ...

Although many major European cities are considered iconic, none of them break into the top 10 most populous cities in the world. The cities with the highest populations are spread through Asia, North ...

The world-famous Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, Trevi Fountain ... For two centuries, St. Petersburg, where you can witness Russian royalty at the Winter Palace, was the imperial capital ...

Herderians discovered that each had their own, apparently untranslatable pang: German Heimweh, French maladie du pays, Spanish mal de corazón, Czech litost, Russian toska ... in rebaptized St.

Dave Seminara lives in St. Petersburg and is the author of, most recently, “Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed & the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth.” He chronicles his travels on ...