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....and still more and more to see and do in & around St Petersburg!

Civic Architecture. 
The richest Empire in the World could afford to spend lavishly.  The Admiralty was Peter's Naval Dockyard from which he planned to make Russia a mighty Naval power.  The Anichkov Bridge, the Fields of Mars, the Summer Gardens and the Stock Exchange are just some of the many star attractions.
Country Palaces.  
St Petersburg is ringed by a series of extravagant Summer Palaces.  The most famous is Petrodvorets (Peterhof) built for Peter the Great himself - a great day-trip by hydrofoil from downtown.  Equally worth visiting are Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo) ,  Pavlovsk, and the less-well-known Gatchina and Lomonosov (Oranienbaum).  All have superb gardens too!
Churches and other places of worship. 
The Tsarist capital recognised many religions, and you'll find the Mosque,  the Synagogue, the Armenian Church, the Lutheran Church and many others.  Alongside these are the many traditional Russian Orthodox Churches, most noteworthy being the St Nicholas Cathedral and the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
Canals and Embankments. 
Peter designed his city with canals for its main streets in imitation of Venice - the nicest way to tour the city remains a canalboat ride from the Anichkov Bridge.
Weird, wonderful, and slightly sick.... 
Peter the Great loved "curiosities" - including deformed embryos, two-headed dogs and other stuff still on view at his Chamber of Curiosities.  Less ghoulish, the Siberian Mammoths next door in the Natural History Museum were frozen alive in the permafrost - complete with hide and flesh.
The Russian Museum
A superlative collection of Russian Art, in the equally superlative surroundings of the Michael Palace