The grand entrance gates

Pushkin, Catherine's Summer Palace and Park

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July 20th 2017
A 10.30am pick up for our trip to Pushkin, 29km south of St Petersburg and named after Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet, playwright and novelist who died in 1837 and is credited with being the founder of modern Russian literature. The Captain's Daughter, The Bronze Horseman and The Queen of Spades are some of his novels = must make a point of reading at least one of them. Out tour started with ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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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