St Petersburg
The jewel in the Baltic crown and Russia's most European city, elegant St Petersburg was Tsar Peter the Great's 'Window on the West'.
The grandeur of St Petersburg's Italian and French-designed baroque and neo-classical buildings, many reflected in the city's network of waterways, is rivalled only by the riches of its priceless art treasures - nearly three million of them in the fabled Hermitage Museum alone!
