Travellers Moscow & St. Petersburg, 3rd; Guides to destinations worldwide

by Chris Booth

• ISBN13: 9781841578880
• ISBN10: 1841578886
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing

Table of Contents

Background	p. 4
Introduction	p. 4
The land	p. 8
History	p. 10
Politics	p. 16
Culture	p. 18
First steps	p. 22
Impressions	p. 22
Destination guide	p. 30
Moskva (Moscow)	p. 30
Excursions from Moscow	p. 88
Sankt Peterburg (St Petersburg)	p. 94
Excursions from St Petersburg	p. 130
Getting away from it all	p. 132
Moscow	p. 132
St Petersburg	p. 138
Directory	p. 140
Shopping	p. 140
Entertainment	p. 146
Music and theatre	p. 150
National holidays and festivals	p. 154
Children	p. 156
Sport	p. 158
Food and drink	p. 162
Hotels and accommodation	p. 172
On business	p. 176
Practical guide	p. 178
Index	p. 190
Maps
Russian Federation	p. 6
Moscow metro	p. 24
St Petersburg metro	p. 28
Moscow town plan	p. 31
The Kremlin	p. 43
Walk: Tverskaya Ulitsa and Patriarshiy Prud	p. 69
Walk: Kitay-Gorod	p. 70
Walk: The Arbat	p. 75
Walk: Kuznetskiy Most and the Neglinnaya	p. 77
Walk: Kutuzovskiy Prospekt and Park Pobedy	p. 79
Walk: From Khram Khrista Spasitelya to Gorky Park	p. 82
Walk: From the Lubyanka to Manezhnaya Ploshchad	p. 84
Walk: Zamoskvoreche	p. 86
St Petersburg town plan	p. 95
Walk: Nevskiy Prospekt	p. 121
Walk: Neva West Bank to the Griboedov Canal	p. 122
Walk: The Winter Palace to the Summer Garden	p. 124
Walk: Basil Island and the Spit	p. 126
Walk: The Smolniy District	p. 128
Features
October 1917	p. 14
Haves and have nots	p. 20
Khram Khrista Spasitelya	p. 36
Street life	p. 46
The artistic explosion	p. 58
Park Pobedy (Victory Park)	p. 66
Stalin's skyscrapers	p. 72
Russians and beverages	p. 80
Country life	p. 92
Waterways	p. 98
The last of the Romanovs	p. 118
Russian winter	p. 136
The market	p. 144
The Bolshoi	p. 152
Vodka	p. 171
Language	p. 184
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