Onion-domed basilicas, gold-gilded palaces and museums to compete with the Louvre, Russia’s imperial beauty is quite a sight to behold.
It’s said that Ivan the Terrible forbade any building more beautiful than St Basil’s Cathedral. Though he has his architect’s eyes gauged out, Russia’s magnificence only grew and grew. With their obscene opulence, the Summer and Winter Palaces of the tsars stand as testament to the pivotal peasant revolt. The ruby stars of Red Square glow as gems remaining from of the soviet era. And the mosaicked Moscow Metro has to be once of the grandest subways in the world.
Russia travel highlights

Meet the father of the Bolsheviks
People flock in the hundreds to catch a glimpse of Lenin, forever asleep in his public mausoleum.

Marvel through the Hermitage Museum
Walk through the colossal splendor of the Winter Palace as you view the world’s second largest collection of high art.

Adore Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg
St Petersburg is widely considered one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, and this street is part of the reason why.

Break the ice in Murmansk
Start your voyage towards the North Pole on the world’s largest and most powerful icebreaker, 50 Years of Victory.

Go polar bear watching at New Siberian Islands
The arctic may be home to musk oxen, reindeer and bowhead whales, but none compare to the great polar bear.

Meet the locals at Severnaya Zemlya
This archipelago is home to two indigenous groups, the Chukchi and the Tundra Nenets. Discover their nomadic way of life dependent on reindeer.
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