City Portrait: St. Petersburg, Russia

"Catherine's Palace"

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Russia Picture by Thomas Driemeyer
Travel story: City Portrait: St. Petersburg, Russia

GETTING THERE



We flew to Petersburg with Pulkovo Airlines, a fragment of the old Soviet Aeroflot. They have ancient Tupolev airplanes. This was certainly the most pitiful airplane I have ever boarded. We were using a tour operator, Dertour, because the Kafkaesque Russian bureaucracy makes it nearly impossible to line up a flight, a hotel, the visa, and the required invitation all at the same time. 2003 was an especially difficult year because it marks the 300th... More