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
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Episode 1: Introduction to St Petersburg
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Episode 2: Peter the Great
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Episode 3: The Peter and Paul Fortress, Peterhof
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Episode 4: The Catherine Palace, St Petersburg
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Episode 5: Nevsky Prospekt, St Petersburg’s Grandest Street
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Episode 6: The Palace Embankment
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Episode 7: Alexander Palace and the Last Romanovs
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Episode 8: Faberge and Rasputin
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Episode 9: St Petersburg Revolutions
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Episode 10: St Petersburg’s Soviet Era
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Episode 11: The Siege of Leningrad
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Episode 12: Music and Theatre in St Petersburg
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Episode 13: St Petersburg, World Capital of Ballet
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Episode 14: The Art and Architecture of St Petersburg
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Episode 15: Father of Russian Literature, Alexander Pushkin
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Episode 16: Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
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Episode 17: Finding Leningrad in Literature
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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
PODCASTS TO GET YOU STARTED
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