This guide to Moscow and St Petersburg covers all the main sights, area by area, in an easily navigable format. Tourist attractions described include Moscow's Kremlin, Red Square and Bolshoi Theatre and St Petersburg's Hermitage, Nevskij Prospekt and Peter and Paul Fortress. A guide is given to excursions outside both cities, including Sergiyev Posad and Peterhof. The book also contains background historical information, advice on shopping and entertainment and the low-down on eating out. There is an A-Z of practical information, listings of recommended hotels and restaurants and useful expressions in Russian. You can read special features on topics ranging from Russian composers and writers to Moscow's fabulous Metro stations. Maps show Moscow, the Kremlin, St Petersburg and both cities' Metro systems, and there are dozens of colour photographs throughout.
