I keep telling the missus that... but her previous employer had a Moscow office and she heard lots of bad stories about it. In time. I've got her to Riga and Tallinn in the last year, so I reckon a few more years and i'll get to visit st Petersburg finally!
Just tell her yer taking her away for a romantic weekend which will include a couple of "excursions into the Carpathians" and I don't see where you could go wrong to be honest.
Looks like Krakow or Vienna from the images on t'web. I presume it must be a Habsburg empire city, they all seem to look pretty much like that. Amazing what they could do architecturally a few hundred years back - still, I'm sure the Glass works will show us how far we've advanced from those days!