Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg

By Angela Charlton

Book Overview

Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you. Our author, a former Moscow-based AP correspondent, hits all the highlights, from Red Squaqre to the Hermitage. She's checked out both cities' best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife; detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; cultural insights; and side trips to Sergiev Posad's magnificent 14th-century monastery, the palaces of Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo, and more. Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg also includes a glossary of useful Russian terms and phrases.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470537639
• ISBN13: 9780470537633
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Frommer
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Fine Travel Guide to the Two Cities

This is a very useful guide to planning a trip to these two cities and finding your way around when you are there.

Excellent guide and I know Russia!

I think the guide is useful and concise, very much to the point and touches on many interesting and relevant topics. I've lived in Russia most of my life, so far, and I think the guide more than does it justice.

I love Frommer's!

With that said, I have been to Russia only once (about 10 years ago) and it was with a tour. I am planning my second trip this Fall (2006) and was pleased to see that Frommer's finally put out a book for Russia. The matter of fact reviews as well as prices cited for absolutely everything give you a snapshot of what it "might" cost. I say "might" because there are so many variables that a book can't truly predict (i.e. fluid exchange rates, supply/demand, the "current will of a taxi driver", etc.) but this book gives you at least a starting point to evaluate if you are overpaying or getting a deal. I am planning to go this Fall without a guide and my confidence is building, as result of this book. I should say that I can read & write in Russian and speak a little, but it was still an intimidating country for me 10 years ago. I can read a Frommers book anytime even if I do not have trip planned. I've just started reading this one and I already love it. Good job (again) Frommer's!