Art-center “Pushkinskaya, 10” is a unique place in Saint-Petersburg that hosts modern art galleries and extraordinary avant-garde museums. One of such museums is Temple of Love, Peace and Music named after John Lennon. Nearby you will find a table “John Lennon Street”, the portraits of Beatles musicians and a picture of yellow... More

The reconstruction of the Summer Garden is good for the occupation layer of the time of Peter the Great and not that good for the post-war epoch. More

Everyone knows this cafe in Saint – Petersburg: the best donuts in the city can be found here! The Soviet spirit still lives in this place! Welcome! More

The club at night and museum during the day, “Kamchatka” conserves the history of Russian rock-culture. It is a former boiler house where Viktor Tsoy, one of the pioneers of Russian rock music worked and lived since 1986 till 1988. More

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It’s the oldest rock shop in Saint-Petersburg and a popular meeting point of rock musicians and their fans. More

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Here you can find many funny second hand things from old jugs to soft toy Pikachu. It’s definitely worth seeing, especially after visiting the Hermitage – that’s the way to fell the contrast! More

There was one of the oldest barber in this house in Nevsky Avenue in 1826 – it is called "Debut". It was closed in 2006 because of the rent problems. It was often visited by many famous artists. But the most important is the fact that the barber would not close during the Blockade of Leningrad! Its visitors were men, leaving the front! The... More

Not everyone knows that each summer monkeys from the Leningrad zoo move to Yelagin park so that the scientists could study their adaptation to Petersburg climate. On their own small island they live half wildly and go back to the zoo in the end of summer. The baboons don’t let people close to their territory, they could even bite. People watch... More

The Leningrad rock club is a legendary place ranking with "Kamchatka" and a wall of Tsoy on Arbat. The house #13 along the Rubinshteina Street always was creative: Petersburg meeting of artists (1870s), Editorial Office of the Magazine of the Ministry of National Education (1850s — 1860s), the Capital Artistic Circle (1886—1892)... More

In this famous house of Silver Age (the beginning of the 20th century in Russian literature) bohemia the residents of huge communal flats often complain about cries, noises and sounds of broken pottery in the night. Was built in 1876 by architect A. Ivanov. More

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They did it! Finally, since the times of Peter I, the entrance to New Holland is open for everyone. In the day of opening there stood a huge queue, people keep going there – the entrance is free from 11-00 till 22-00. There’s nothing special to look at yet, except for the aura of the place, the “bottle” prison and a famous Delamot... More