The largest nation in the world, Russia, borders with European and Asian countries, as well as with the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Its landscapes vary from tundra to forests to subtropical beaches. It is famous for ballet companies that perform at Moscow’s Bolshoi and St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky. In St. Petersburg, founded by Tsar Peter the Great, there is the baroque Winter Palace, which is now part of the artistic collections of the state museum: the Hermitage.
