St. Petersburg Book

	Introduction	1
	Travel	3
	Getting There	4
	By Air	4
	By Sea	5
	By Rail	5
	By Road	6
	Entry Formalities	7
	Package Tours or Individual Travel	8
	Specialist Travel Agents	9
	Getting Around	10
	By Metro	10
	By Bus, Trolleybus and Tram	12
	By Train	12
	By Road	13
	Travelling to Moscow	14
	Practical A-Z	15
	Addresses	16
	Climate and When to Go	16
	Crime and the Police	17
	Electricity	19
	Embassies and Consulates	19
	Gay Scene	19
	Health and Emergencies	20
	Internet	21
	Libraries	21
	Media	22
	Money and Banks	22
	Museums and Opening Hours	23
	National Holidays and Festivals	23
	Packing	24
	Photography	25
	Post Offices	25
	Religious Services	25
	Sports and Activities	26
	Telephones	28
	Time	28
	Tipping	28
	Toilets	29
	Tourist Information and Tours	29
	Women	29
	History	31
	Topics	55
	Vodka	56
	The Mafia	57
	Rasputin	58
	Icons and Iconostases	60
	Superstitions	62
	Faberge	62
	Tapochki	63
	St Petersburg: the Walks	65
	Introduction	65
I	The Founding Father	67
	Bronze Horseman
	Admiralty
	Naval Museum
	Peter and Paul Fortress
	Museum of Russian Political History
	Peter's Cabin
	Summer Gardens and Palace
II	The Imperial City	87
	Palace Square and the Winter Palace
	Marble Palace
	Field of Mars
	Mikhailovsky Castle
	Church of the Saviour on the Blood
	Pushkin Flat Museum
III	A Clutch of Cathedrals	103
	Haymarket Square
	St Nicholas's Cathedral
	Mariinsky Theatre
	Kolomna and New Holland
	Yusupov Palace
	St Isaac's Square and Cathedral
	Kazan Cathedral
IV	On and Off the Nevsky	119
	Ploshchad Iskusstv
	Russian Museum
	Museum of Musical Instruments
	Akhmatova Museum
	Ploshchad Ostrovskovo
	Museum of Theatre and Musical Arts
	Apraksin and Gostiny Dvor
V	Tauride Palace and Smolny Region	143
	Cathedral of the Transfiguration
	Tauride Gardens and Palace
	Kikin Chambers
	Smolny Cathedral
	Smolny Institute
	Suvorov Museum
VI	Vasilievsky Island	155
	St Andrew's Cathedral
	Vasiliostrovsky Market
	Academy of Arts
	Menshikov Palace
	Twelve Colleges
	Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
	Zoology Institute
VII	The Hermitage	169
	Practical Hints
	History
	Special Collection
	Walk A: State Rooms, Modern European Art
	Walk B: Highlights
	What is Where in the Hermitage
	Of Boats and Buddhists	193
	Boat Rides	195
	Piskarovskoye Cemetery	196
	Kamenny, Yelagin and Krestovsky Islands	197
	Buddhist Temple	199
	Moskovsky Prospekt	199
	Cruiser Aurora	201
	Style Moderne	202
	Museums and Galleries	203
	Day Trips: Five Palaces	215
	Peterhof	217
	Oranienbaum	226
	Tsarskoye Selo	231
	Pavlovsk	240
	Gatchina	249
	Food and Drink	253
	Where to Stay	267
	Entertainment and Nightlife	273
	Shopping	281
	Chronology, Glossary and Street Names	289
	Language, Further Reading	295
	Index	307