The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

The 'Venice of the North', with its numerous canals and more than 400 bridges, is the result of a vast urban project begun in 1703 under Peter the Great. Later known as Leningrad (in the former USSR), ...

Though nearly half of all buildings in the city were built before 1960, less than 1% have any regulatory protections, according to the findings of Preserve the ’Burg. Rebecca Liebson is a reporter ...

ST. PETERSBURG — “In Caravaggio’s Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi” opened Saturday at the ...