Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper ... of elaborate and fanciful architecture. In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded ...

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great ... died in St Petersburg on 17 ...

Nevsky Prospekt, Russia's most famous street ... called the "Petrograd Side" of the city (where Peter the Great originally founded St. Petersburg). Both islands contain interesting sightseeing ...

Nevsky Prospekt finally ends at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, constructed under Peter the Great in 1710 to shelter the relics of the patron saint of St. Petersburg. Main attractions along Nevsky ...

A city of federal significance, with the second largest population in Russia and the northern and cultural capital. Even a schoolboy remembers that it was founded by Peter I in 1703 at the mouth ...