"Russia’s massive edifices and impossibly wide boulevards are most often associated with Stalin’s era, but it bears pointing out that even in the nineteenth century they didn’t exactly think small. The Corinthia St. Petersburg is a case in point, occupying a pair of buildings along the Nevsky Prospect, either one of which would be pretty monumental in its own right — and which, conjoined as they are, provide the backdrop for what’s more or less the quintessential Art Deco–style Russian luxury-hotel experience." - Tablet Hotels