Petersburg Roulette

Summertime and the living is easy... It's also pretty hot and with temperatures up in the eighties, Petersburgers head to the gras...

Gatchina is one of a handful of provincial palace towns scattered oustide of St. Petersburg, and in its somber (by Russian imperi...

Summer has come to Petersburg.  The white snow is gone and the White Nights are at their peak.  Late night fireworks light up the sky be...

Let's go for a slide!

We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the   tabula rasa . At the Cabaret Volta...

Peter the Great and his Tsarina promenade on Palace Square

Hurray, it's another holiday in Russia:  23 February, Fatherland Defenders Day!  The origins of this holiday date back to the earlies...