Nevsky Prospekt finally ends at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, constructed under Peter the Great in 1710 to shelter the relics of the patron saint of St. Petersburg. Main attractions along Nevsky ...

The Peter and Paul Fortress is where St. Petersburg was founded. Peter the Great commissioned the building ... also houses the remains of centuries of Russian czars and their families.

TASS/. The Poltava, a replica of Russia’s first 54-gun battleship of the same name built in the Peter the Great times, was floated out in St. Petersburg on Sunday. "Russia’s glorious naval ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great ... died in St Petersburg on 17 ...