The best way to get a handle on the national drink is to sit down at a bar where the bartender speaks your language. Decide ...

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A wonderful museum and formerly the home of Russia's tsars. If you love art and Russian History, this place is a must-see.

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A tasty mélange with Middle Eastern and European influences, Georgian food is peasant comfort food, with lots to please the vegetarian. Classic dishes include bread ...

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This is your Moscow splurge spot, a chandelier-elegant restaurant with an enchanting storybook vibe (thanks in part to waiters dressed in 19th-century costume). Perfect surroundings ...

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A suburb of St. Petersburg best reached by train. The fun starts at St. Pete's Vitebsk Station, a study in Russian art nouveau. Catherine ...

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Talk about not telling a book by its cover. This white, wooden-roofed structure in Moscow just so happens to have been home to Mikhail Romanov ...

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About 38 miles northeast of Moscow—and very close to worth-a-visit Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius Monastery in Sergiev Posad—is a 19th-century outpost of ...

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This 4.7-million-acre sweep of snow-tipped mountains and glacier-carved valleys beckons with its remote beauty. On the western side of the sub-polar and northern Ural ...

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A stately city of cultural and architectural gems on the Baltic's northern shores, with lots to coax you inside: Peter and Paul Fortress (resting ...

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We're talking big. More than 5,300 feet deep and nearly 400 miles long, Lake Baikal holds 20 percent of the world's freshwater ...

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