Moscow or St Petersburg?

St Petersburg- it is the cultural capital and has a lot of beautiful places to see. There is plenty of history, art and nature so I think you will enjoy it :)

If you want more Russian than go to Siberia, thats Russian for you. St Peterpurg or Leningrad was built by Peter the Great to mimic Western Europe and is nothing else than a bad copy built on the corps of poor russians who were forced to shave and look aristocratic or face death by their ruler Peter the great whose mother had sex with hourses. On the other hand if you go to Moscow that is not a russian city at all. Most Moskovites are a mix or Russian aka slavic tribes and mongols during centuries of Mongolian rule of Russia and interracial merrages between the two where custom and that is why today majority of moscovites have mongolian look and genetic predesposition and you can find very little Slavic in Moscow. That is why Yeltsin for example looked very mongolian in Particular and many more of their leaders. Most Russian writers for instance aren't russian at all. Pushkin for instance was african and was killed by the russian in a duel because pushkin found out that his russian wife had an affair with his murderer. Tchaikovski was Scandinavian not Russian and there are tons of examples like this. I will sum up Russian history for you. It is a mix of Slavic tribes and Mongols, Kazaks, siberians, etc that formed very fighsty people we call Russians today. They to this day behave like Chingiz Khans Mongol Invaders who occupy their neighbours, kill, murder and rob places of their heritage and wealth and it is always ruled by a despot, like Putin, Rasputin, Lenin, etc.

Moscow,Novgorod,Rostov,Vladimir - are the most ancient and the most "Slavic" cities.I'll highly recommend you to visit them.

St.Petersburg is more European city,like Paris,Vienna or Prague.But ,in my opinion,it's the best city in Russia.Russians even call it "culture capital"

So,that's your choice;)

Moscow is very modern.If you care so much about history and art,I would go to St.Petersburg.

both cities have a lot of culture, history, architecture, musems, I love both cities and in retrospect you can stay in one and visit the other one on weekends...its only a few hours by train