Spread Some Festive Cheer With Family Breaks
There are tens of millions of people whom you will have never met earlier than. Spanning two continents — from the Black Sea to the Bering Strait — Russia is the world’s largest country, so there’s far too much of it to cram right into a single visit. Newcomers to this enormously various destination should, subsequently, focus first on its multifaceted cultural capital, St Petersburg. Within the last hundred years, Russia’s second city has been renamed both Petrograd after which Leningrad before returning to its original moniker by fashionable vote, and it is, maybe, the ideological and political shifts that these repeat baptisms suggest that make St Petersburg (merely ‘Peter’ to the locals) such a captivating slice of Russian life. With a surprising architectural mix of Western European and Russian styles, riddled with picturesque canals and waterways, the Venice of the North affords baroque royal palaces, neoclassical cathedrals, and the … Read more