St. Petersburg
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Bars
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Museums
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Nightclubs
”Most of Petersburg's nightlife can be characterized by Susan Sontag's dictum on popular culture: 'So bad it's good.' And by...” MORE>> |
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”Picture the most crowded joint in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and multiply the body density by 10. I know it's the weekend...” MORE>> |
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Places of Interest
”My favorite building in Petersburg is just a few blocks from here. The raspberry and white candy box of the...” MORE>> |
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”Built as a nationalist rebuke to this elegant and slavishly European city, the church will bring to mind the famous...” MORE>> |
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”For the midnight mass, I head to the city's main functioning church, the Kazan Cathedral, an elegant early-19th-century rip-off of...” MORE>> |
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”Directly ahead you'll find the vast snowed-in lemon wedge of the Neoclassical Mikhailovsky Palace, designed by the ubiquitous court architect...” MORE>> |
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”I cross the Neva River, gleaming patches of ice clogging its vast curving artery, to the city's fashionable Petrogradskaya side...” MORE>> |
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”...the Museum of Russian Political History, a collection of artifacts tracing Russia's miserable experiments with monarchism, Communism, capitalism, and any...” MORE>> |
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Sacred Sites
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Services
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Shops
”I ducked into Muzei Shokolada (Chocolate Museum) and instinctively balked at the Lenin busts fashioned from dark and white chocolate...” MORE>> |
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”A raid on the shop produced a tea set decorated with the factory’s traditional blue, white and gold pattern...” MORE>> |
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Theater/Performance Spaces
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