The park and palace are located south of St. Petersburg in the town of Tsarskoye Selo. Ticket prices range from 700 to 1000 rubles (or about $11 to $16), depending on how much of the palace you ...

Both parks and their palaces are part of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Preserve. For more information, visit the official website. Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a ...

By 1792, Catherine dispatched a trade mission to Japan. Even after her envoy’s audience at Tsarskoye Selo, negotiations failed. Afterward, she seemed to give up her task of trading furs and food from ...

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