Pobeda Gallery

Abrikosov

Korovabar

Tinkoff

Art 4

New Tretyakov Gallery

Russian Museum

State Hermitage Museum

Colorado Father (Koloradsky Otets)

Most of Petersburg's nightlife can be characterized by Susan Sontag's dictum on popular culture: 'So bad it's good.' And by... More

Dacha

Picture the most crowded joint in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and multiply the body density by 10. I know it's the weekend... More

The Idiot

Milk & Honey

Nouveau riche young Russians and jet-setters alike mingle at Milk & Honey, an over-the-top, baroque lounge.... More

Osen

Nouveau riche young Russians and jet-setters alike mingle at Milk & Honey, an over-the-top, baroque lounge, then move on to... More

Chesme Church

My favorite building in Petersburg is just a few blocks from here. The raspberry and white candy box of the... More

Church of the Savior on the Blood

Built as a nationalist rebuke to this elegant and slavishly European city, the church will bring to mind the famous... More

Kazan Cathedral

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

Mikhailovsky Palace and the Russian Museum

Directly ahead you'll find the vast snowed-in lemon wedge of the Neoclassical Mikhailovsky Palace, designed by the ubiquitous court architect... More

Mosque of St. Petersburg

I cross the Neva River, gleaming patches of ice clogging its vast curving artery, to the city's fashionable Petrogradskaya side... More

Museum of Russian Political History

...the Museum of Russian Political History, a collection of artifacts tracing Russia's miserable experiments with monarchism, Communism, capitalism, and any... More

Peter and Paul Cathedral