Julia Child Bistro, our meeting point for the Original Walk. How to get there
Walking route from metro Sadovaya to Julia Child Bistro. 700 m, 7-10 min walk. Our Original Walk starts from Julia Child Bistro, located at Grazhdanskaya […]
Articles by Yura Birukov
Top 10 guided city tours: readers’ tips
We are veterans of walking tours in many cities, but have never had a better experience than we had with this company. We were lucky […]
Tours in St. Petersburg, Russia
My mother wants to go to St. Petersburg, Russia, this summer to see the palaces, Hermitage, etc. The tours I’ve found seem to include just […]
Once Was Leningrad
What better way to see St Petersburg than from the seat of a bicycle? “We were taught a lot of bullshit at school,” said Nikolai […]
Pietari: Rikos ja krapula
Tuttu tarina: Nuori ja rahaton opiskelija Raskolnikov päättää tehdä täydellisen murhan. Hän kävelee kirves kainalossaan panttilainaajaeukon talolle, ryöstää ja murhaa tämän. Tai ehkei sittenkään. ”Me […]
Des Jammers goldene Kulisse
Mit einem Pomp ohnegleichen zelebriert Russland am 27. Mai den 300. Geburtstag von St. Petersburg. Doch die Wunden seiner Geschichte lassensich nicht übertünchen. Die Stadt […]
Sankt Petersburgs mörderisches Erbe
Zum 300. Geburtstag läßt Wladimir Putin die Zarenstadt herausputzen. Doch in den vergammelten Hinterhöfen sieht es noch immer aus wie zu Dostojewskijs Zeiten. Sankt Petersburg […]
The Hidden Petersburg, Up Close and Personal
St. Petersburg, striving to live up to its self-proclaimed title of Russia’s cultural capital, is abundant with guides wanting to sell you on the city. […]
Walks Go to Markets and a Murder Route
St. Petersburg, striving to live up to its self-proclaimed title of Russia’s cultural capital, is abundant with guides wanting to sell you on the city. […]
Bear Essentials. Three hundred years on, St. Petersburg is as compelling as it’s ever been
The temperature edges up a notch and the drainpipes start to thaw, sending ice cascading to the pavement like a jackpot in one of the […]
Exklusiv für Fußgänger: Peter zeigt seine Stadt
St. Petersburg. Der Dachwanderer ist wieder da – aber nun bleibt er am Boden und nährt sich redlich: Peter Kosyrew, der einst Erlebnis-hungrige Petersburg-Touristen zu […]
A walk atop the Russian wild side
With a carefree motion that belied the peril of a misstep, Peter Kozyrev scampered up a steep, rusted ladder, then onto the rooftop. Oblivious to […]
Revolutionary way to show off a Russian city
Peter Kozyrev has put his country’s communist past behind him, striking out on his own as a tour leader who seeks the adventurous to glimpse […]
White Nights and rooftop tours reveal the secret St. Petersburg
They never look up, the hustlers of St Petersburg, as they bully tourists into sitting for street portraits at midnight, or hawk tickets for canal-boat […]
Pietarissa turistilla vain taivas kattona
Matkamiehet tutustuvat kaupunkeihin kävellen – harvemmin kuitenkaan talojen yläpuolella Neuvostovalmisteinen hissi rämistää kohti kahdeksatta kerrosta kuin Koneen insinöörin painajaisuni. Ylhäällä rappukäytävässä kiipeämme tikapuita pitkin sisälle […]