This compact publication is at once an atlas, guidebook, reference book and photo album, inviting city guests on a fascinating walk through the nearest suburbs of St. Petersburg. Tsar's amusements and palace coups, victories of Russian arms and imitation of French fashion wove a whole wreath of unique architectural ensembles around the northern capital: palaces, parks, cathedrals, forts. In the guide you will find detailed maps of the most famous “royal” suburbs: Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Strelna, Lomonosov. Their magnificent residences, partly preserved and partly restored after the war, are now united into the Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo State Museum-Reserves. In addition to them, the guide includes information about the fortified city of Kronstadt (with a map) and about the most famous resorts of the northern coast: Zelenogorsk, Sestroretsk and Repino. The guide's text and more than 40 photographs will help you not only find the most interesting sights, but also learn something interesting about their history. Here are just a few of the travel destinations described on its pages: the gravity-flow fountain system of Peterhof, the unique Amber Room of the Catherine Palace, the Slide for winter fun in Oranienbaum. All objects described in the text, as well as many others, are reflected on maps and in a reference index application, which, in addition, contains addresses of museums, theaters, hotels and boarding houses. In the application you will also find alphabetical street signs, essential telephone numbers and detailed information on transport links to all described suburbs.