Best places: Museums in Peterhof, Russia

Colonnaded, waterfront, former residence of Russian emperors, with extravagant state rooms.

1818 Russian Orthodox cathedral & museum with gold-plated dome & an opulent, multicolored interior.

Seafront museum complex in former royal palace surrounded by parkland known for its many fountains.

Museum founded by Catherine the Great, housing huge collections of art, culture & antiquities.

Founded by Peter the Great, this fortress contains a museum about the early city & a cathedral.

Gleaming mosaics & marble line this richly decorated 1880s church topped with colorful onion domes.

Huge working miniature exhibit of Russia, with scenes of human life plus moving rail & road routes.

Museum in an 18th-century palace displaying art, jewelry & Fabergé eggs made for Russian emperors.

Elegant former palace of noble families, now a museum & cultural space with luxurious rooms.

Antique locomotives & rail cars & interactive exhibits in a huge museum centered on a former depot.

Waterfront villa built for the emperor's mother in 1822, now housing period paintings & glassware.

This historical square features monuments & a mass grave, plus scenic views of the Naval Cathedral.

Museum on history of the Russian artillery, engineering & signals corps, with weapons & artifacts.

Famed maritime museum displaying ship models, flags & other naval artifacts since 1709.

Immense 19th-century neoclassical building housing Russian & European art from the Hermitage Museum.

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Museum offering binoculars & audio guides to examine a scale model of 18th-century St. Petersburg.

Palladian theater from 1785 in Winter Palace, full of marble & statues, & staging ballet & opera.

Museum dedicated to Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in her former apartments in Sheremetev Palace.