The Empire is reborn

Custom travel to Russia

On the shores of the Baltic Sea, the city once known as Stalingrad is today an urbs of great possibilities that await your discovery.

Russia’s most “European” and arguably most elegant city, re-renamed St. Petersburg, will dazzle you on magical nights at the Alexandrinsky Theatre; on boat excursions up and down the River Neva; afternoons at the Peterhof Gardens. That said, Moscow is Europe’s most Asian capital city. It evolves without losing its signature essence. In everything from Red Square, or St. Basil’s Cathedral—with its scarlet onion domes—to the city’s most velvet-ropey nightclubs. .

NUBA EXPERIENCES

Recommended travel time: Summer

The best time to travel to Russia is in summer—between June and August—when the weather is warmer and skies are blue and cloudless.

Seasonal experiences

Experience zero-gravity in an amusement aircraft run by the world’s biggest cosmonauts, in Moscow’s Stars City district.

Take in the St. Petersburg Russian Museum and its impressive collection, in the company of a curator, or let NUBA get you into Hermitage Museums storage spaces not open to the public.

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