European Russia (Moscow & St Petersburg)2 places
- KazanThe capital of Tatarstan, where a mosque and an Orthodox cathedral stand inside the same white kremlin walls, street…
- St PetersburgA capital built from nothing on a swamp by imperial decree, laid out in canals and pastel baroque along the Neva…
Siberia & Lake Baikal1 place
- Lake BaikalThe oldest and deepest lake on Earth — 25 million years old, 1,642 metres down — holding around a fifth of all the…