| CITY TOUR WITH VISIT TO ST. ISAAC’S CATHEDRAL. 4 hours |
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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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| CITY TOUR WITHOUT INSIDE VISITS. 3 hours |
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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 DAY TRIP (2 Excursions & Lunch) |
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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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| VISIT TO GRAND PALACE & PARK IN PETERHOF. 5 hours |
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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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| VISIT TO HERMITAGE. 4 hours |
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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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| VISIT TO PALACE & PARK IN PAVLOVSK. 5 hours |
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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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| VISIT TO PALACE & PARK IN PUSHKIN. 5 hours |
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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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| VISIT TO PETER & PAUL FORTRESS |
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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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| VISIT TO RUSSIAN MUSEUM |
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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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