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Guided tour to Tsarskoe Selo. The Catherine Palace and the Park.

Tsarskoe Selo is a magnificent historical and architectural monument, as well as a pearl of the landscape design art. Many outstanding architects, sculptors, painters worked here. The dominating architectural style is baroque — the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli designed the famous Catherine palace in his favorite ornate technique. Palaces and structures that were constructed on the territory of the park later were designed in various other styles.

Guided tour to Peterhof. The Park and one of the smaller Palaces

Peterhof has always been associated with fountains. This former summer residence of the Russian emperors has earned a world-wide fame as the capital of fountains. Peterhof was built in the beginning of XVIII century as a copy of Versailles — the famous residence of the French kings — and in some ways even surpassed it. Especially impressive was its system of naturally operating fountains.

Guided tour of the Erarta Museum

Erarta is one of the largest contemporary art museums in Russia, its central part being the Museum of Modern Art in St. Petersburg. This museum boasts a new approach to popularization of art by building a revolutionary system of relationships between the art objects and the viewer. The museum exposition is completely focused on the visitor who is considered to have the greatest value.

Guided tour of the Fabergé Museum

The Fabergé Museum, a privately-owned museum, which was established in order to repatriate lost cultural valuables back to Russia, was opened in 2013. The museum is located in the center of St. Petersburg in the premises of the ShuvalovPalace, on the embankment of the FontankaRiver. The ShuvalovPalace with its total room area of some 4,700 square meters is one of the most beautiful palaces of St. Petersburg, a historical monument and a center of tourist attraction.

Guided tour of the Russian Museum

In 1895, Emperor Nicholas II passed a decree on establishing Russia’s first State museum of Fine Arts. In 1898, the Russian museum was opened in the premises of the Mikhailovsky Palace, which at that time belonged to the Russian treasury.

Guided tour of the Konstantinovsky Palace

The Konstantinovsky Palace is situated some 19 kilometers to the South of St. Petersburg, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, in Strelna village — one of the oldest suburbs of the city. Originally the palace and the surrounding park ensemble belonged to the royal family.

The Hermitage

St Petersburg city bus tour

During the 3-hours sightseeing tour around St. Petersburg you will see the city’s most beautiful and famous sights. The tour starts in Nevsky Prospekt, the city’s main thoroughfare, where the largest department stores — the Gostiny Dvor and the Passage — are located, as well as the House of Books — the city’s largest book store, a number of magnificent palaces, including the Stroganov Palace, and, of course, the Admiralty — the first shipyard to operate in St. Petersburg.

St Isaac's Cathedral

St. Isaac's Cathedral is one of the most majestic and monumental structures of St. Petersburg, the city’s largest Orthodox Church. 43 minerals were used for the decoration of its exterior facades. Its striking interior decorations feature all kinds of monumental and decorative arts, from paintings and sculptures, to mosaics and colored stone used as finishing details. The city’s best architects, painters and sculptors worked at the construction and decoration of St. Isaac's Cathedral for 40 years.

Peter and Paul Fortress

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the focus point in the history of St. Petersburg: the city started growing from this very place. The fortress, first made of wood and earth, was laid by Peter the Great on May 27, 1703 on the Hare Island. It was first named St. Petersburg, which meant the City of St. Peter. Then the fortress is rebuilt in stone and a cathedral was erected within its walls, dedicated to apostles Peter and Paul.

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