Saint Petersburg is considered the most tourist friendly city of Russia and the country's main tourist attraction. The city was masterminded and built by Russian Emperor Peter the Great some 300 years ago as the new western style capital of Russia, dubbed 'Window into Europe'. The city remained capital of Russia since early 18th century till 1918 when Bolsheviks decided to move Russian capital back to Moscow due to both political and security reasons. Since then there was next to no new construction in the historic center of Saint Petersburg which turned the city into a kind of an architectural encapsulation of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a rather unlikely thing to see in the country for many decades dominated by Soviet ideology keen on erasing the past. For many years all new construction in Saint Petersburg has been confined to the eerie suburbs, which seem to have no geographical or cultural connection with the touristy city center. In the wintertime when daylight lasts less than 6 hours and winds from the Gulf of Finland add up to harsh Russian winter, when all tourists are gone and all tourist places are shut down for the low season, the city does become a rather suicidal place.