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St Petersburg: now's the right time to visit Russia's rebel city

Book your holiday for May or June, when the light-hearted locals are emerging from winter hibernation

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Looking across the wide Neva from Vasilyevsky Island, the Palace Embankment shimmers in the river, suspended between water and sky. Raised on a marsh by violence and sheer force of will, there are few cities more impossible, and more beautiful, than St Petersburg. It’s worth going for the view alone, and you should — now, while the rouble is weak.

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