Russia Country Russia, the world's largest country, as well as European and Asian countries, in contact with the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean and the border. Its landscape is a range of tundra and forest in subtropical beach. It is famous for the novelist Leo Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, plus the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Ballet company. St. Petersburg was founded by the Russian leader Peter the Great of the legendary Petersburg, the Winter Palace of the baroque style, features a housing part now of the art collection of the State Hermitage Museum.
