The 17 episodes in our St Petersburg series take in all the main sights and delve into the city’s dramatic history. Visit St Petersburg for its imperial and soviet history, Baroque architecture, and rich culture.
In short, we have done all the background research for a visit which you’d do yourself if you had the time!
ST PETERSBURG : HISTORY & CULTURE

Episode 1: Introduction to St Petersburg

Episode 2: Peter the Great

Episode 3: The Peter and Paul Fortress, Peterhof

Episode 4: The Catherine Palace, St Petersburg

Episode 5: Nevsky Prospekt, St Petersburg’s Grandest Street

Episode 6: The Palace Embankment

Episode 7: Alexander Palace and the Last Romanovs

Episode 8: Faberge and Rasputin

Episode 9: St Petersburg Revolutions

Episode 10: St Petersburg’s Soviet Era

Episode 11: The Siege of Leningrad

Episode 12: Music and Theatre in St Petersburg

Episode 13: St Petersburg, World Capital of Ballet

Episode 14: The Art and Architecture of St Petersburg

Episode 15: Father of Russian Literature, Alexander Pushkin

Episode 16: Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

Episode 17: Finding Leningrad in Literature

St Petersburg Extra: A Virtual Tour of St Petersburg
MORE READING ABOUT St Petersburg
Useful websites for tourists
St Petersburg City Tourist Information Bureau
St Petersburg.Com (Tourist Information)
2 guidebooks to St Petersburg
Eyewitness Travel Guide to St Petersburg
Lonely Planet Guide to St Petersburg
Travel Book
Among the Russians by Colin Thubron
History
Russian History, a Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Hosking
The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
Biography
Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes
Peter the Great by Derek Wilson
Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon
Catherine the Great by Robert K Massie
Rasputin by Frances Welch
Four Sisters by Helen Rappaport (the 4 daughters of Czar Nicholas II)
The Diary of Lena Mukhina (A diary of the Siege of Leningrad)
Art and Culture
A Short Life of Pushkin by Robert Chandler
Nijinsky by Lucy Moore
Rudolf Nuryev The Life by Julie Kavanagh
Anna of all the Russias The Life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein
Anthologies
St Petersburg A Traveller’s Companion by Laurence Kelly
City Pick St Petersburg edited by Heather Reyes
Literary St Petersburg by Elaine Blair
Novels set in St Petersburg
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
The Suitcase by Sergei Dovlatov
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