Russia holidays
A colourful and turbulent past has underpinned the surviving grandeur of today’s Russia, resulting in an amazingly historically rich country. However this fiercely proud society is embracing the change which now prevails in a dynamic and fast changing destination.
Such a vast country inevitably offers an array of landscapes from snowy mountain peaks and unspoilt remote countryside to the great majestic cities and their instantly recognizable domed skylines.
A visit to the fast changing cosmopolitan city of Moscow or the impressive neo-classical St Petersburg with its world-famous treasures, will undoubtedly offer a memorable experience of this unique country.
- Moscow has an ancient past evident through the grand arches of St Basil’s Cathedral and a more recent history of Soviet power, with the grandeur of Red Square and the onion-domed skyline of the Kremlin. However this is a dynamic society embracing change and its new contacts with the west.
- The world of the Tsars lives on in Russia’s previous capital, St Petersburg, a treasure-trove of spectacular palaces and vast churches bright with mosaics and the Hermitage Museum. In the winter it transforms to a snowy paradise of horse-drawn sleighs.
