Tsar bidder

Fancy buying a Tsarist palace in St Petersburg? City governor Valentina Matvienko said this week that more than 2,000 listed buildings would be put up for sale to private buyers for the first time in a bid to save the city’s crumbling heritage. The buildings will be sold at half ...

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