Big City Tales

Moscow & St. Petersburg | December 23, 2011

At this point I am not sure if it will be a river cruise or a Trans-Siberian railway adventure, but whatever the mode of transportation I choose to take between Moscow and St. Petersburg, I am so looking forward to roaming these rustic and rambling Russian cities and soaking up every last bit of their collective histories!

Sights to see in Moscow:

• Red Square
• The Kremlin
• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
• Pushkin Museum of Visual Art
• Tverskya Ulitsa (theatre district)
• Kuznetsky Most (former meeting place of Moscow’s elite)
• Izmailovsky Park (where Peter the Great played as a child)

Sights to see in St. Petersburg:

• The Hermitage
• Neva River
• The Winter Palace & other palatial places
• The Bronze Horseman, The Alexander Column & other grand statues
• St. Isaac’s Cathedral & other houses of worship
• The Palace Bridge, The Bank Bridge & other river-spanning feats of engineering
• Alexander Garden, Catherine Garden & other parks heralding the great tsars of the past