Do you like military museums as much as we do? You know, when mysterious lights flash around, torpedoes are placed in the corners and, between the corridors, multi-ton doors that can withstand a nuclear strike open and close.

Where do they train to be bogatyrs? Well, for one, at the Znamenskaya Bogatyrskaya outpost. And they have a comprehensive approach, too.

Take the 'Lastochka' train to Sortavala with a change to a real retro train!

This cave is manmade: according to legend, monks Xenophon and Joasaph carved it at the base of the chalk column, but this place was first mentioned in sources only in 1831.

Belt up the caftan, fasten the leather bag for bullets and fuse supplies, pull on your gloves… what else? Take the “berdysh” (a battle ax with a semicircular blade on a long shaft). Now you look just like an archer!

The portal into the era of Russian classicism and the golden age of the Empire - the Great Gatchina Palace – is located just an hour’s drive from St. Petersburg; it’s open to everyone every day and you can spend the entire day there.