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Saint-Petersburg City Tour

This tour is the best way to start exploring the city. You will see the historical center of the city with its wonderful palaces and cathedrals, hear lot of interesting stories about St. Petersburg and its citizens, and have photo stops in the most picturesque places of the city. The tour includes: Nevsky Prospect, the Spit of the Basil Island, Peter and Paul Fortress, Palace Square and many other wonderful sights.

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The Hermitage Museum tour

The State Hermitage museum is world famous! During the tour you will see luxurious rooms of the former Royal residence and an exquisite collection of art and applied art. Our guide will show you the main masterpieces of the collection and tell about historical events connected with the Hermitage and the Winter Palace. You will walk through the very same rooms where these events took place. The tour can be customized according to your interests.

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Peter and Paul Fortress Tour

Peter and Paul Fortress is the place where the city started. Its each stone is history! Tsar Peter the Great built the Fortress to protect the delta of the Neva River from the Swedes. The basic date of the Fortress, May 27, 1703, is considered to be the birthday of St.Petrsburg. The gilded spire of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul is one of the main landmarks of St.Petersburg.

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Inside the Cathedral you can see the burials of the Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to Nicholas II, and our guide will tell you thrilling stories about the palace intrigues around their ascend to the throne of Russia. If you like we can also include a visit to the Prison, where the famous revolutionaries were kept.

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Yusupov Palce

The private Palace of one of the richest noble families of Russia and also the place of the murder of Gregory Rasputin. Usupov palace is a place where great balls gathered the most glorious members of St.Petersburg higher society, where happy and unhappy events of everyday life took place, where high nobility of Russia and even the Tsar himself were welcome as guests.

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During the tour we will see the main gala gallery of reception halls and the private theatre of the palace, which looks like a mini-copy of the real 19th century opera house. Then we will visit some of the private rooms of the members of the family which were decorated to their taste and still reflect their character and personality. And - last but not least - you'll be invited to the room that witnessed one of the most controversial events in the Russian history - the murder of Gregory Rasputin.

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St. Isaac’s Cathedral

St. Isaac's Cathedral is the largest, the most famous and the most ornate Cathedral in St.Petersburg. The Cathedral was built in the 19th century as the principal cathedral of St. Petersburg. It is spacy enough to accommodate 12 000 people. The interior is richly decorated with coloured marble and lapis-lazuli, malachite and porphyry, mosaics so intricate that you can hardly tell them from the paintings and paintings belonging to the brush of the best Russian artists.

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You will also see models and pictures which illustrate different stages of the construction of the Cathedral. Being one of the largest domed Cathedrals in the World it took 40 years to build and required a lot of outstanding engineering solutions. Optionally we can climb the Colonnade of the Cathedral where you can enjoy a marvelous panoramic view of St.Petersburg historical centre and the Neva river.

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Spilt Blood Cathedral

Spilt Blood Cathedral is one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in St.Petersburg and at the same time its history is unique. The Cathedral was built at the break of the 19th and 20th centuries in memory of Tsar Alexander II in the very place where he was deadly wounded by the terrorists’ bomb. Hence the name – the Church on the Blood. The Cathedral is built in Russian style, adorned with coloured onion domes.

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The interior is decorated with exquisite stone carvings of various semi-precious stones and the walls are covered with more than 7000 square meters of mosaics, which you will not find in any other temple anywhere else. So an inside visit is highly recommended.

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Russian Museum

The Art Gallery where the best collection of antient Russian icons and Russian paintings of 18th-20th centuries is on display. Unfortunately, many of our guests do not know much about Russian art and Russian Artists. However, we have outstanding artists whose works you can see in the State Russian Museum. The Museum is situated in the former Palace of Grand Duke Michael in the Square of Arts.

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During the tour you will see: 1. A collection of Russian Icons where the oldest icons date back to the XII century. 2. XVIII and XIX century Russian paintings of artists, such as Brullov, Repin, or Aivasovsky. 3. Works of the Russian Impressionists of the late XIX early XX century, such as Serov, Kuindzhi, Korovin. 4. Russian avangardists, including Kandinsky and Malevich. 5. Some works of Socialist Realists – a very special trend of Russian art which developed in the Soviet Union.

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Peterhof

The World-famous park with more than 150 fountains – the Russian Versailles! Peterhof is the former Summer residence of the Russian Tsars based by Peter the Great on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. It is famous for its great park with more than 150 fountains and of course for its beautiful palaces. During the tour you will see the most interesting fountains like Samson, whose water rises up to 23 meters high, the Roman Fountains, the Dragon Cascade, the Jester Fountains and many others.

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You will also see the Grand Palace of Peterhof and some of the Small palaces and listen to our guide’s stories about the construction and the restauration of the residence and the events which took place here. As a rule, the tour also includes an inside visit to one of the palaces at your choice.

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Pavlovsk

Pavlovsk was the Summer residence of Paul I, son of Catherine the Great. The Palace used to be home for Paul I, his wife, Maria Fyodorovna, and their children. It was decorated with great taste and though it does not look as bright and glistening as baroque constructions of the early 18th century, it is considered to be the most harmonious palace of the Russian Tsars.

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Pavlovsk still bears traces of personality of its owners. Some of the items on display were personal belongings of Paul and Maria Fiodorovna, or were even made by her or some of their children. The palace also has an outstanding collection of furniture, tapestries, porcelain and clocks on display. And after the tour of the Palace you can walk in the most beautiful English Landscape Park around it.

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Catherine Palace

Catherine Palace is decorated with more than 30 kilos of gold and this is where the famous Amber Room is. Catherine Palace is located in about an hour drive from the city. It is a beautifully decorated Summer palace constructed in baroque style and it looks very ornate with its sky-blue and white facades and gilded moldings. The palace was constructed in the 18th century for the daughter of Peter the Great, Empress Elisabeth I.

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The interiors are richly decorated with mirrors and gilded carvings. The most famous room of the Palace is the Amber Room. It is absolutely unique – the only room in the world where the whole surface of the walls is decorated with natural amber panels. After the tour of the Palace you can take a stroll in the Catherine Park and enjoy its vast lake and a lot of charming park pavilions.

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Boat tour along Rivers and Canals

There is no way more pleasant to explore the city than a boat tour. You will go along the narrow canals and under little old bridges. You will see St.Petersburg from the water and understand why it is very often called the Venice of the North. This tour will not replace the general city tour. We recomend it after you have seen most of the city. Then you can relax and have a view of the places you have been to before at a different angle. The route of the tour can be different depending on the level of the water in the canals and on the size of your boat.

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