Red square, St. Sophia’s Embankment, The Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, New Maiden Convent, Old Arbat, Vorobyovy Gory, The White House of the Russian Federation, Buolevards of Moscow, Manezhnaya Square, Theatre square, Tverskaya Street, New Arbat.
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Red square, St. Sophia’s Embankment, The Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, New Maiden Convent, Old Arbat, Vorobyovy Gory , The White House of the Russian Federation, Buolevards of Moscow, Manezhnaya Square, Theatre square, Tveskaya Street, New Arbat.
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Tsar´s bell and cannon, The Grand Kremlin Palace, Political and governmental buildings of the Kremlin, Kremlin walls and towers, Cathedral Square, The Armory Museum.
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The history of Kolomenskoye is intertwined with the history of the Russian monarchy. It was a home for Peter the Great during his early years. It was the scene of festivities marking the coronations of Catherine I, Peter II and Empresses Anna and Elizabeth. Peter II often hunted in the woods nearby, and in the late 18th century Catherine the Great used to come here with her grandchildren, including the future Emperor Alexander I.
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Sergiev Posad was named after Saint Sergey who was known as Sergey Radonezhsky. He founded a monastery there in 14th century that became then one of the greatest and biggest monasteries in Russia. Nowadays the monastery carries the name of Lavra that translating from Greece means "main and most important monastery".
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The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art and one of the greatest museums in the world. The Gallery's collection consists entirely of Russian art and artists who have made а contribution to the history of Russian art or been closely connected with it. The collection contains more than 130 000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics, created throughout the centuries by successive generations of Russian artists.
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One of the richest world collections of fine arts from the time immemorial to nowadays is treasured in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts that is favorably situated in the very center of Moscow, close to the Kremlin and Red Square. Nowadays it is the second, after the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, largest museum of foreign art in Russia.
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The unique monument of the 18th century, Kuskovo Estate, located in Perovsky district of Moscow, used to be the summer residence of Sheremetyev Counts. The architectural ensemble of the estate had been formed by the middle of the 18th century. Magnificent constructions such as the Palace, Grotto, Hermitage, Great stone conservatory, old church, and Italian and Dutch houses survived until nowadays. At Kuskovo there is also a very well preserved French regular park with ponds, pavilions and marble sculptures.
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An ideal way to start one's acquaintance with the city is to take a city tour.
The route is tailored just to give you a chance to see all the highlights of the city center - an unforgettable journey through the past and present of the city. The tour invariably includes a drive along Nevsky Prospect, the Peter & Paul Fortress and the Hermitage. After a stop by the multi-domed Church of the Resurrection of Christ (also known as the Church on the Spilled Blood), cross the Neva to see the Aurora cruiser. Stop by the Bronze Horseman. Return then to the Admiralty region to look at St.Isaas's Cathedral.
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An ideal way to start one's acquaintance with the city is to take a 3-hour city tour. For the tour we provide an expert driver and a guide who will take every effort to make the trip enjoyable.
The route is tailored just to give you a chance to see all the highlights of the city center an unforgettable journey through the past and present.
The tour invariably includes a drive along Nevsky Prospect Russia's most famouse street, St.Petersburg's seething main avenue, the city shopping center and the focus of entertainment and street life.
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Novgorod - one of the most ancient cities of Russia located in its North-West, near the site where the Volkhov river takes its waters from Lake Ilmen, emerged as a political center of Slavic and Fino-Ugric tribes in the mid-9th century, while as a town it was formed in the middle of the 10th century.
Many experts of Russian art justly believe Novgorod to be Russian Florence; no other old Russian cities have managed to preserve so many ancient architectural monuments adorned with wall murals. Visit a unique complex of ancient Russian architectural monuments of the 11th - 17th centuries!
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The most famous suburban residence of the Russian tsars, located right on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, has about 200 fountains that make its major attractions. World best artists designed the unique ensemble of fountains and cascades over a long period of over 100 years. On a warm sunny day it's fun to watch the kids enjoying themselves among the trick fountains, which start to spray when least expected.
A 5-hour tour includes a tour of the Grand Palace with some unique early XVIII century interiors and private chambers of Catherine the Great and an enjoyable walk round the grounds.
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This tour is an excellent opportunity to get a general impression of the museum whiteout omitting any of the highlights. An expert guide will show you the glorious State Rooms designed to accommodate 10 thousand guests, few surviving living quarters and certainly the highlights of the collection of art. After the tour you go out brimming with impressions and still whishing to come back again.
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A refined classical palace of the late XVIII century gives one a very clear idea of the life the tsars lived when staying in the country.
Constructed for infamous Paul I, after his death the Palace became residence for his widow Empress Mary. Of all other suburban palaces this one is better preserved and all the historical rooms are open to the public.
The 5-hour tour gives you a chance to admire the cozy yet spectacular interiors and stroll along the paths of the park one of the nicest parks in Europe.
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No other excursion brings back such a long chain of historic associations. The Palace built for Catherine I, Peter's wife, was then fully renovated with no expense spared by their daughter Elizabeth I and later on became the favorite suburban residence of Catherine II (the Great). The vast park inspired young Alexander Pushkin to his first poetic opuses, as he was a student at a nearby Lyceum, a boarding school patronized by Alexander I.
Our 5-hour tour gives you time to look not only at the Palace but also at the park with its numerous monuments and pavilions.
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The Peter and Paul Fortress is architectural and historical center of Saint-Petersburg. The fortress was designed to protect the Neva lands that were won from the Swedes during the Northern War (1700 - 1721). Its powerful stone walls rising almost out of the water, and the cathedral spire soaring into the skies, make up a unique view opening from afar as a part of the wide Neva panorama.
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The Russian Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative institute of academic research, a major educational center and the nucleus of a network of national museums of art.
The Russian Museum collection contains circa 400.000 exhibits. The main complex of museum buildings - the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing - houses the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, tracing the entire history of Russian art from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.
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