Top 10 guided city tours: readers’ tips
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]