Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...
Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...
The service was ordered in 1773 by Empress Catherine II of Russia for the Chesme Palace - at one time called La Grenouillere or Kekerekeksinen because of its location on a frog marsh, which ...