Local food culture in St. Petersburg, Russia. Food tours

When visiting a new place, we usually try to get some authentic experience which necessarily includes tasting local food. Being famous for its history, St. Petersburg lags behind when it comes to cuisine. However, just like palaces and churches have their own history, so do a great number of cafes, bars and restaurants which open cultural and social codes that help with understanding our history.

St. Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievskiy Sobor) during the Siege of Leningrad

During the Siege of Leningrad, St. Isaac's Cathedral (Isaakievskiy Sobor), was the tallest building and very visible from all sides of Leningrad, and remained intact and untouched. In the beginning of the war, the threat to Leningrad and its suburbs became apparent. The conversation of how to evacuate the art treasures of the palaces began to Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Pushkin, and other inland locations.

Was Peter the Great liked, successful, a good leader? or a tyrant?

    Peter I the Great – a prominent state and military figure of Russia, a captain and a diplomat, the founder of Russian regular army and fleet.

       Peter carried out the policy of westernization and expansion that transformed the Tsardom of Russia into the 3-billion acre Russian Empire, a major European power. Peter implemented sweeping reforms aimed at modernizing Russia.