Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
"For history, prestige, luxury and location, Rocce Forte's sumtuous luxury hotel, the Astoria, is hard to beat."
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The marvels of Moscow and St. Petersburg are the main attraction for the visitor to Russia. Your first glimpse of Red Square will bowl you over and the mind boggles when confronted by the extent of Catherine the Great's art collection in the Hermitage. But there's so much more to Russia as our Russia travel articles, which cover Kamchatka to Kaliningrad, will testify. Stand by for our Russia travel guide which will cover all the best luxury hotels with first-hand hotel reviews as well as all the best restaurants, the wildest nightclubs, the best way to get tickets to the Bolshoi or the Kirov ballets and the most impressive museums.
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Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
"For history, prestige, luxury and location, Rocce Forte's sumtuous luxury hotel, the Astoria, is hard to beat."
From RUB 14525
per room per night
Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
"Recent RF renovation offers an upbeat, lively atmosphere with superb location"
From RUB 7030
per room per night
Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
"Leading city hotel in 19th-century rococo palace, full of history"
From RUB 488
per room per night
Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
"Understated by Russian terms, though still opulent; rooms beautifully decorated if slightly international in style"
From RUB 14000
per room per night
Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
"Leading Moscow hotel, modern and expensive"
From RUB 0
per room per night
St. Petersburg | Steve Knipp | Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
It is said that Russia's second city, St. Petersburg, is not really a Russian city at all, but an elegant European upstart implanted on the breast of Mother Russia. It is a very simple, very Russian, case of jealousy
Sleeping in Moscow and St Petersburg | Graeme Harwood | Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
The current Russian hotel scene is simple to summarise: in winter, they haven’t got enough clients; in summer, they don’t have enough rooms…
Peter's Paradise | Dominic Hamilton | Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
Peter the Great was always the unorthodox monarch. His city was built on a boggy marsh plagued my mosquitoes in the summer and floods the rest of the year. It stands as his greatest testament
Russia | Barbara Erasmus | Russian Federation, Baltic Coast, St Petersburg
Despite globalization and a more outward-looking economy, Russia remains essentially foreign. It’s not a self-drive, bed and breakfast destination like Europe or North America
Stalin's Nose (An extract) | Rory MacLean | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
They embalmed Lenin the day after he died, Styopa told us, "with disinfecting liquid - a mixture of formalin and medical spirit - via the aeorta. His brain was removed and preserved in the Lenin Museum
Moscow - Starry-eyed capital of a shattered empire | Steve Knipp | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
Perceptive travellers have long known that the most famous places are often actually the least known. So it is with Moscow, the sprawling hub of the once great Soviet empire
Salmon & Kola | Rose Baring | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
The arrival of foreigners in this introverted spot, a forbidden destination for seventy years, had its surreal moments. We flew first to a tented camp, 130kms from the nearest village
Moscow: The Ugly Duckling Comes of Age | Rose Baring | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
On the table, gazpacho and a glass of Spanish white. Shading me from the incessant sunshine, the portico of a city-centre hotel. Ahead an underground shopping centre decorated at street level
Back to a Chekhovian Future | Rose Baring | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
Time travel. I've done it. You just leave Moscow, the bustling capital of a former super-power, and head out into the countryside
Near-death experience | Rory MacLean | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow
In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism - first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight