Alexander Nevsky Lavra

This monastery was founded by Peter the Great in 1713, celebrating the defeat of the Swedes at the hands of Alexander of Novgorod. It is open to the public and permanently filled with beggars and homeless people asking for support from passersby. You can see a lot, but you'll have to pay if you want to enter the cemetery. Here many prominent Russians are buried, including Tchaikoski, Rubenstein, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka and Dostoevsky.