Set on Moscow’s Bolotny Island, the Red October chocolate factory has become the Russian capital’s new artistic place to be. A youthful, festive cultural hub, the complex lends an underground dimension to a quarter in full revival..
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Sapsan, Russia’s first high-speed train, connects St. Petersburg to Moscow in 3 hours and 40 minutes while offering customers optimal comfort. But it traverses a desolate landscape that progress seems to have forgotten and has cau..
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Russia has returned to the caviar market. The country stopped exporting the black eggs from sturgeon for 9 years because the Caspian sea fish was facing extinction. Now Russia has turned to fish farming to regain its place at the ..
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Beyond the well-mannered waters of the Imperial City, ‘Peter’ bubbles with energy. Here are a few noteworthy addresses that are not museums, palaces or churches.
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As if time had stopped flying, the Petrodvorets Watch Factory in Peterhof, greater St. Petersburg, still manufactures world-famous Raketa watches. Despite its three centuries of activity, Russia’s oldest factory has a promising fu..
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Anchored in its magnificent past as the city of tsars, St. Petersburg has finally turned towards the future. At the confluence of the Moïka River and the Kriouk Canal, New Holland Island, renovated by Roman Abramovich, is destined..
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Marc Chagall was one of the twentieth century's most successful artists, yet he spent most of his life exiled from Russia, considered too bourgeoisie for the USSR. Now an exhibition in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery shines a light on ..
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Have you ever dreamed of skiing down (nearly) virgin Olympic slopes? Your dream could come true near Sochi, a small Russian seaside resort city set on the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains. Ever since it was elected host city..
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From Moscow’s Red Square to the popular Red October quarter, here is the perfect itinerary for spending your Christmas holidays... in January!
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St. Petersburg - or ‘Peter’, as the Russians fondly call it - enchants the eye and the soul.
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