Saint Petersburg in 3 days: Peter the Great's European dream — 3 million artworks in the Winter Palace, fountains fed by natural pressure, and an Amber Room stolen and rebuilt.
da Vinci, Rembrandt's Prodigal Son, Matisse and Picasso in the world's second-largest art museum.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Winter Palace facade, the curved General Staff Building, and the Alexander Column — the 1917 storming.
Kazan Cathedral, Singer House bookshop, Eliseyev food emporium and the finest boulevard in Russia.
The city at 11pm in full twilight — palaces reflected in the canals, the drawbridges rising at 1am.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideChef Grishechkin's creative reinterpretation of Russian ingredients — one of the best restaurants in Russia.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Grand Cascade and the Samson Fountain — the most spectacular Baroque garden in the world.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide1703 — the first building in St. Petersburg. Tsar burial cathedral. Dostoevsky's prison cell.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe finest Russian painting collection in St. Petersburg — less crowded than the Hermitage.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuidePalace Bridge lifts at 1:25am — the most dramatic free spectacle in St. Petersburg.
6 tonnes of amber reconstructed over 25 years — the Nazi-looted original vanished in 1941.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe writer's last apartment and the streets of Crime and Punishment within walking distance.
The assassination church on the Griboedov Canal — the most extraordinary exterior in St. Petersburg.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideRussia's great sour-pickle soup at a stolovaya canteen — the most honest meal in the city.