St Petersburg (Russia)

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St Petersburg, or Petrograd, formerly Leningrad is the most Western city of Russia and located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1703, it was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years but ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and is second to Moscow although it remains a major European cultural centre as well as an important Baltic port. St Petersburg's centre...
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St Petersburg, or Petrograd, formerly Leningrad is the most Western city of Russia and located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1703, it was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years but ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and is second to Moscow although it remains a major European cultural centre as well as an important Baltic port. St Petersburg's centre contains some wonderful architecture earning it the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Russia's political and cultural centre for 200 years, the city contains a large number of foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and other businesses.

I visited this city for two or three weeks in 1997 and stayed with a Russian family close to the centre and was lucky to have the help of Marina Maydanyuk show me the less visited corners of the city
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