Bath Villa

Peterhof, bombed by Stalin, renovated as a great public park: St Petersburg.

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August 22nd 2016
Our last day in St Petersburg: Petershof The sun is up the sky is blue, I'm off to Peterhof, how 'bout you? After reading advice on t'internet we took a metro to Avtovo (a beautiful station), then crossed the road to catch a 424. The bus cost 70 rubles: about 85p. It probably took us under an hour in total. Some nervousness about when to get off, but 90% of the customers were Peterhof b ... read more

Europe » Russia

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more