St. Petersburg’s transformation from barren marshland into a center of Russian political, academic and cultural life began on May 27, 1703, when Czar Peter I founded the city as a grand capital for his expanding empire. Golden Cockerel honors this magnificent city with our “White Nights of St. Petersburg” matryoshka. Landmarks of this “Venice of the North” -- The Church of Our Saviour on the Spilled Blood, St. Isaac's Cathedral, The Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, The Admiralty, and The Peter and Paul Cathedral/Fortress – decorate this specially created nesting doll. But you don’t have to travel to Pitr for a souvenir of this famed city -- Order your very own “White Nights…” nesting doll!