Abrikosov

Korovabar

Tinkoff

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

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

St. Isaac's Cathedral

Paloma

Chocolate Museum (Muzei Shokolada)

I ducked into Muzei Shokolada (Chocolate Museum) and instinctively balked at the Lenin busts fashioned from dark and white chocolate... More

DVK

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

A raid on the shop produced a tea set decorated with the factory’s traditional blue, white and gold pattern... More