Anyone ever visited Russia?

[TravellingSpoon]

I am 40 on a few years and to celebrate would love to visit Moscow and St Petersburg and take my DC's.

Has anyone visited any of these two cities? What was your impression?

Forgive my daydreaming - lockdown is getting to me.

We visited St Petersburg about 18 months ago and loved it. Our hotel was pretty central, so we could walk to the main attractions and we also visited Catherine’s Palace (paid for an organised trip). I found most people could speak some English and on the whole friendly and wanting to help. SS Peter & Paul really interesting plus the jail cells and, surprisingly, the space museum. Hoping to get to Moscow in the near future.