On summer nights in northern Russian it stays so bright that it’s hard to believe it’s not daytime. This natural phenomenon is called “White Nights,” and it lasts anywhere from several ...

But in St. Petersburg during “white nights”—typically from the second week of June through the first week of July—that magical dusky hour never fades to black and the city is held in a ...

Belye nochi, the Russians call them – White Nights. These are the incredible, luminous northern midsummer eves when the high latitudes are bathed in a pearlescent all-night glow. In Russia’s ...