Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper ... museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the home of the czars for almost 200 years.

Years after Catherine turned the Winter Palace into the palatial museum ... nearly 1,000 miles southeast of St. Petersburg, to catch mice in its basement. Now, hundreds of years later, at least ...

Flush with canals and built around water – the city curves around the Gulf of Finland, and the Neva River runs through the city center – St. Petersburg is a planned city that originated with ...