Peter - all these are the names of St. Petersburg. The most beautiful city in Russia, the second largest, the capital of our immense with a population of almost 5 million people. Few cities in our homeland can boast of such an architectural and cultural heritage as St. Petersburg. There are so many historical sights, museum exhibitions, operas and dramas. theaters, estates and palaces, parks, monuments, which cannot be avoided even in a week!
The historical center of St. Petersburg and related groups of monuments are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Peter, in its beauty and scale, can be put on a par with cities such as Paris, Rome and Venice.
The city has over 200 museums and their branches: the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Central Naval, the Research Academy of Arts of Russia, urban sculpture, the history of St. Petersburg, anthropology and ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera), etc. Out of about 250 museums in the city of the Hermitage, which is visited by three to four million visitors a year, the most visited and probably one of the most famous museums in the world. The Hermitage is one of the most important art museums in the world. It boasts a very large collection of European fine art.
St. Petersburg is also famous for its poets, writers and composers. Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gumilyov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Bely, Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Dovlatov lived and worked here.
The beauty of St. Petersburg's churches amazes even the most inveterate atheists. There are temples of 42 denominations, including an amazing mosque with a porcelain dome, the only Buddhist monastery in Europe and one of the most beautiful chapels of the Order of Malta.
There are thousands of hotels, hotels, hostels for tourists in St. Petersburg. Alternatively, you can rent a whole house outside the city, for example, in a cottage village
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