St. Petersburg (Eyewitness Travel Guides) Review
The book helped me a lot on my visit to St. Petersburg as I don't know Russian. The maps have the street names in English and Cyrillic Also the street index. There is also a metro map with stations written in both languages. The metro map and phrase book at the end - should be written in bigger letters. The book is very colorful and helps you to identify the sights and find your way.
I didn't read all the history section which seems very detailed but for a traveler - there should be a summery page of the important events and people who had an impact on St. Petersburg's history and Architecture.
Information that I found lacking or should be improved (Only from my experience in the city and I didn't see or visit all the sites)
1.Yosupuv Palace - no information about the beautiful interior and collections (p. 120) A gallery or hall guide should be added.
2. There are three guided walks ( P. 133-139) but a very important one "Dostoevsky walk" ("Crime and Punishment") around the area of Sennaya Ploshchad is missing . there is a small map on p.115 with "sights at glance" without the buldings were Dostoevsky lived. There is a mention of him on page 123 with limited information.
A map, the walk and more information linking the area to the relevant books (" Crime & Punishment"," The Gambler" etc.) must be added.
3. Traskoe Selo or Pushkin (P.152-155) - no mention of the impressive Holocaust "Formula of Grief " also not on the map on page 155.
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From Russia with love - Dave -
We were planning to take a Russian River Cruise and wanted to have an advanced insite into what we were going to see.
This book as well as the Moscow book gave us knowledge to understand what we were going to see as well as giving us a method to review what we had seen and enjoy it further. We have found over the years that the Eyewitness books are the best books out there for us.
Great book series - Nick Zeragia - Manville, NJ United States
I have purchased couple books from DK eyewitness, like: Prague, New york and Egypt. I couldn't live out Saint Petersburg this amazing city. great book with wonderful pictures
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