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Tsarskoe Selo
The grand imperial estate of Tsarskoe Selo in the town of Pushkin, 25km south of St Petersburg, is 4km further south.
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Teremok
This ornate, storybook wooden house is covered in stunning, brightly-coloured carvings. It houses a folk-art museum.
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Borovitskaya Tower
Use the entrance at Borovitskaya Tower if you intend to skip the churches and visit only the Armoury or Diamond Fund.
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Borisoglebsky Monastery
The oldest monastery complex in Tver Oblast still bustles with religious activity; visitors and pilgrims are welcome.
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Artillery Yard
The artillery yard and museum has an interesting collection of historic weapons and a mock izba (Russian cottage).
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Mt Mashuk Cable Car
Closer to the city centre, a cable car whisks you to the top of Mt Mashuk for fresh breezes and a great panorama.
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Nature Museum
The Nature Museum has taxidermically stuffed animals and a scale model of Lake Baikal showing just how deep it is.
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Peter & Paul Church
With obvious Byzantine influences, this red-brick 12th-century chapel is the oldest in the city and a local icon.
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Red Gates
Covers the history of Astrakhan as a southern outpost of the Russian Empire from the 16th to the 19th century.
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Korolevsky Bastion
By the western walls of Smolensks fortress, this high earth rampart built by the Poles who captured Smolensk in 1611.
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Metal Working Museum
Tula’s long history as a centre of metalwork and gun manufacture is told through displays at this small museum.
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Tsentralny Gastronom
This mint-green Style Moderne (Russian take on art nouveau) building dates from 1895; its topped by a statue of Mercury.
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Statue of Peter the Great
Close to the hydrofoil terminal is a jaunty statue of Peter the Great pointing to the spot where Petrozavodsk would be founded.
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Ural Geological Museum
Over 500 minerals from the Ural Mountains region and a collection of meteorites. Its inside the Urals State Mining University.
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Palace of Peter III
This Rinaldi-designed palace is the only remaining part of Peterstadt, a miniature palace built for the young Peter III.
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Urals Mineralogical Museum
A private collection offering a stunning introduction to the region’s semiprecious stones, located in the Bolshoy Ural Hotel.
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Russian
The spired, bright-turquoise Russian-German House (1904) is among several grand wooden mansions along ul Krasnoarmeyskaya.
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Retro Park
This garden near the St Nicholas Church is full of wacky sculpture pieces fashioned from old Soviet-era cars and motorbikes.
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Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
The garages and warehouses at the old Krasny Oktyabr Factory now serve as studio and gallery space for up-and-coming artists.
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Timofey Granovsky House
Presents materials and memorabilia relating to the eponymous historian, as well as to other 19th-century writers and thinkers.
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