We invite cruise passengers to an astonishing guided tour through St.Petersburg cathedrals. This tour will be a unique experience since St. Petersburg is considered as one of the most important religious centers of Russia. St.Petersburg is also known as the center of Russian ecclesiastical art because of its outstanding Cathedrals and Churches. During this tour you will get familiar to the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, its development through the centuries and the modern state of affairs. We have the most professional guide for this type of tours.

As part of the excursion you’ll visit St. Isaak Cathedral – a unique monument of the Russian architecture and one of the best Cathedrals in Europe. You will be able to admire its grandiosity and majesty from outside as well as get impressedby its astonishing interiors. The decoration of the Cathedral includes the largest collection of Russian monumental art of the mid XIX century: more then 150 pieces of art of such masters as as Vasily Shebuyev, Carl Briullov, Fyodor Bruni and others. You will see also more than 300 statues, sculptural groups and bas-relieves carried out by Ivan Vitali. You will be surprised by large number of mosaic works in St. Isaak Cathedral, that is why it is often called the Museum of the Mosai.
Savior on the Blood Church is another outstanding peace of Russian ecclesiastical art that you’ll visit during the excursion. It also has the name of Jesus Christ Resurrection and was built and consecrated in 1907 on that very place where in 1881 the emperor Alexander II was killed. It is crowned with 5 enameled domes and is decorated with various rocks and mosaics that cover almost the whole interior surface of the walls. In the Church you’ll see a special canopy with four columns of jasper – a part of cobbled roadway where Alexander II fell down having been mortally wounded is located there. During this tour our guides will let you about the famous life of Alexander II, his reforms and his tragic death. Savior on the Blood Church is very symbolic for St. Petersburg and for the whole Russia as it is the first Church having been built on the place of the Tsar’s death – one of the victims of approaching revolution who was killed by the people to whose good he dedicated himself.
Book this St.Petersburg Sightseeing tour with us and you will hear more amazing stories about the city and its history.


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