During the Panoramic City Tour we will pass the heart of Saint-Petersburg – the Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare with old mansions standing along, the avenue of expensive shops, restaurants and great variety of entertainments. You will have a look at Kazan Cathedral – the kind of 1812 war memorial, at Admiralty – our naval beauty. You will see the Winter Square – the heart of the Northern Venice. Passing through Vasielvsky Island – the main scientific and educational center – you will see Rostrum Columns which will remind you that Saint-Petersburg is a naval city. You will contemplate our mysterious fortification – Saint Peter and Paul’s fortress that used to be a prison for a long time. You will also get acquainted with the Saint-Petersburg University, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, the world-famous statue of Bronze Horseman, Smolnij Cathedral, our magnificent churches, graceful bridges and other picturesque places, so beloved by art connoisseurs. And, of course, your guide will not forget to make a number of stops for a “photo session”.

You will spend about 1,5 hours in the Hermitage. Your tickets will be bought in advance, so, you will not have to queue for a long time.
The Hermitage is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, which possesses our tsars’ great private collections, outstanding exhibits, genuine works of art. The Hermitage is a museum, situated in a Winter palace, which is a former tsars’ residence. The whole museum buildings is so huge, that if you spend there the whole day long, examining each exhibit only for 2 minutes, you will need 40 years to see everything. Thus, our professional guides will show you “the best out of the best” and help you not to get lost among numberless masterpieces.

The excursion lasts for 4 hours.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• City tour by car with photo stops
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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s Cathedral.

During the Panoramic City Tour we will pass the heart of Saint-Petersburg – the Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare with old mansions standing along, the avenue of expensive shops, restaurants and great variety of entertainments. You will have a look at Kazan Cathedral – the kind of 1812 war memorial, at Admiralty – our naval beauty. You will see the Winter Square – the heart of the Northern Venice. Passing through Vasielvsky Island – the main scientific and educational center – you will see Rostrum Columns which will remind you that Saint-Petersburg is a naval city. You will contemplate our mysterious fortification – Saint Peter and Paul’s fortress that used to be a prison for a long time. You will also get acquainted with the Saint-Petersburg University, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, the world-famous statue of Bronze Horseman, Smolnij Cathedral, our magnificent churches, graceful bridges and other picturesque places, so beloved by art connoisseurs. And, of course, your guide will not forget to make a number of stops for a “photo session”.

And, of course, you will not miss the majestic Saint-Isaac’s square and visit Saint-Isaac’s Cathedral, which is the forth highest cupola construction in the world. You will have a look at the interiors of the cathedral, your guide will tell you the story of its foundation to which a special exhibition is developed. If you wish you can also come upstairs to the golden dome of Saint-Isaac’s and to see a great panorama of Saint-Petersburg (far not everybody wishes to climb so high, that is why we do not include the fee for climbing into the excursion sum. You can do it for an small extra fee by paying in the museum or “Avenue-Tour” can make this ticket for you.).

The excursion lasts for 4 hours.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• City tour by car with photo stops
• Excursion in the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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the Nevsky Prospect, the main thoroughfare with old mansions standing along, the avenue of expensive shops, restaurants and great variety of entertainments. You will have a look at Kazan Cathedral – the kind of 1812 war memorial, at Admiralty – our naval beauty. You will see the Winter Square – the heart of the Northern Venice. Passing through Vasielvsky Island – the main scientific and educational center – you will see Rostrum Columns which will remind you that Saint-Petersburg is a naval city.
We will visit Saint Peter and Paul’s fortress – the first construction of the city, which was meant to be a fortification, but was turned into an atrocious political prison. You will proceed to the Peter and Paul’s Cathedral and have a look at a marvelous iconostasis. The area of Peter and Paul’s fortress is also a burial place of Russian Emperors, and you will have a chance to see their large tombs, made of semi-precious stones.
On your way you will also get acquainted with the Saint-Petersburg University, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, the world-famous statue of Bronze Horseman, Smolnij Cathedral, our magnificent churches, graceful bridges and other picturesque places, so beloved by art connoisseurs. And, of course, your guide will not forget to make a number of stops for a “photo session”.

The excursion lasts for 4 hours.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• City tour by car with photo stops
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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The Hermitage is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world. It is situated in five historic buildings of Saint-Petersburg, including the Winter Palace – the former royal residence. The five buildings of the museum by themselves are considered to be great masterpieces.

The collection of the museum numbers over 3 mln exhibits and embraces the prehistoric culture, the art of the antiquity, of Egypt, Scythian golden treasures, the art of West-European countries, Eastern and, of course, Russian art.

The year 1764 is considered to be the date of the Hermitage foundation, when Catherine II acquired the first and one of the best collections of the West-European painting. At present the overall collection of the Hermitage is more than huge: permanent exhibitions occupy 300 halls; more than 16.000 of paintings, 600.000 graphic works, 12.000 of sculptures and more than 250.000 works of applied art, 1 mln of numismatic monuments are kept in the museum’ s depository.

In the Hermitage everything is outstanding, but the most celebrated masters whose chef d’oeuvres you will be able to see are: Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens.
The best collection of Small Hollanders can not be missed. You will be also amazed by a remarkable French paintings collection, especially of bright and remarkable impressionists.

We will be especially grateful to help you see all the most exciting in the Hermitage. You will not be lost among this abundant beauty.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Non-working day:Mon.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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And now it is one of the most famous museums in our city attracting not only foreigners but also native citizens of Saint- Petersburg.
The Peter and Paul's fortress is built in a form of a prolonged hexagon with six bastions connecting thick walls (the thickness is up to 20 meters). One of the bastions was named "Tsar bastion" - the fortress can boast being constructed under the observation of the tsar himself. The mystery starts right at the beginning of the foundation of these lands. Officially, the 21 year long Northern war with Sweden gave Russia all the rights for the access to the Baltic sea. But until now the historians can not tell exactly to whom originally belonged this territory of the coast of the gulf of Finland: to Russia or to Sweden, or, maybe, to Finland.
A gracious spire topped by the figure of an angel bearing a cross belongs to
Saint Peter and Paul's cathedral built by an Italian arquitect Domenico Trezzini.
Legend: in 1830 there was a strong storm which made the spire decline. These were the times of Nicolas 1, there was no scaffolding used. They found a brave man, Peter Telushkin, who managed to climb up to the top of the spier. For his brave deed the tsar gave Telushkin 10.000 roubles (a huge sum of money) and a certificate which allowed him to drink vodka in any tavern free of charge. Telushkin spent the money for the ransom of his fiancee, but he lost the certificate. So in order Telushkin was not afraid to lose the certificate, Nicolas I ordered to stamp Telushkin's neck as a sign of the tsar's will.

Saint Peter and Paul's cathedral used to be the tallest building in Russia for a long time (122,5 meters). One of the best interior decorations of the cathedral is the iconostasis donated by Catherine I (the wife of Peter the Great) to the cathedral. 40 masters on lime wood spent 5 years carving it.
Peter the Great was the first of our tsars to accept the title of the emperor. Thus, the Russian tsars are buried in Moscow and all the Russian emperors are buried in the Peter and Paul's cathedral, except for Peter II and Ivan VI. In the cathedral there are 32 grave tombs of Romanov dynasty members (11 of them were the ruling ones) from Peter I, the Great, to Nicolas II, the martyr.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Open: 11.00-17.00,Tue till 16.00

Closed on Wed. and on the last Tue of every month

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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The first church was created following the order of Peter the Great. It was right in the first church of St. Isaacs where Peter the Great and his wife, the future Catherine I, had their wedding ceremony. All the three churches built during the ruling of different tsars collapsed with time or were demolished, and only Alexander the I managed to create our present Saint Isaac's Cathedral.
Isaac was a Byzantium monk canonized by the orthodox church. The feast day of Saint Isaac is the birthday of Peter the Great, that is why the Cathedral carries the name of this saint.
The history of the nowadays Saint Isaac's Cathedral goes back to the beginning of the 19th century, when our tsar Alexander I appointed Monferrand, a young master, to be a court architect. There was a contest organized to choose the best project for reconstruction of a cathedral devoted to Saint-Isaac. They say that quite miraculously Alexander I saw the works of Monferrand (as he was not at all popular as a master) and was impressed by them. This young French master showed him about 24 miniature sketches of a cathedral in different styles to find out the taste of his serious client.
The most interesting facts about the construction of the cathedral are:
Because of the marshy soil it took them 5 years only to lay the foundation of the cathedral.
Into the base of the column -which was put up first our tsar Nicolas I put a platinum coin to commemorate the process of construction. The weight of each column is 114 tons. It took the workers 45 minutes to put up each column, which is a little time taking into consideration the techniques of that period.
Another engineering achievement is the design of the central dome. It consists of three cupolas put one over another a la "matrioshka ". The gaps between the top and the intermediate cupola are filled with 100,000 hollow clay pots which provides the cathedral with an excellent acoustic affect. This method was derived from the ancient Russia. Due to a special technique they have never regilded the dome of the cathedral -100 kilos of gold were being used for this purpose. A very sad fact is that 60 people perished during the process of gilding.
In Saint-Isaac's cathedral which is one of the last monuments of classicism. You will be pleased to contemplate the wall paintings and mosaics, three iconostasis (each dedicated to a certain saint), the stained glass "Resurrection" (28 sq. meters in size), different kinds of marble the cathedral is made of, more than 400 sculptures and bas-reliefs by the best masters. And also a special exhibit devoted to the construction of Saint-Isaac's Cathedral. Our professional guides will have pleasure to acquaint you with the marvelous Cathedral of Saint Isaac and to tell you the detailed story about the history of its foundation.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Open : 11.00-18.00

Closed on Wed.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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It was created by the order of Alexander III whose wish was to commemorate the tragic death of his father, Alexander III. The construction was committed in 1883 to a brilliant arquitect Parland and was successfully finished in 1907.
The Church of our Savior on the Spilt Blood is quite a recent work that was created in a style of a Russian traditional arquitecture. It is a rare in Saint-Petersburg example of a pseudo-russian style.
After the revolution the the Сhurch of Christ's Resurrection was closed and used as a warehouse. As a result of this fact a lot of masterpieces stored in the church were ruined.
There was a long period of restoration which ended in 1997. The church was turned into a public museum of the Russian mosaics. In general, it counts with about 7000meters of mosaics. As for the number of mosaics the church of Christ's Resurrection takes the second place in the world.
Some sad facts from the history of the Church of our Savior on the Spilt Blood:
At Soviet times they ironically called the cathedral "the Savior on the potatoes "for they used it to store potatoes there.
During the blockade the cathedral was turned into a mortuary.
During WWII a projectile has got stuck "in the arms of Christ" - which is the image painted on the cupola of the church of Christ's Resurrection.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Open : 11.00 - 18.00

Closed on Wed.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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The residence is situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and occupies a huge area - about 1000 hectares with more than 150 fountains and 10 palaces, if not to mention small pavilions. Created by the best architects commissioned from all over the world like Braunshtein, Valen de la Mot, Rastrelli, Petergof will take your breath away by its eternal beauty.
Petergof was founded at the beginning of the 18th century as a monument to the Russia's victories in the Northern war (1700-1721) with Sweden. Thus, all the ornamentation of the residence is designed in a symbolic way to glorify the Russian naval might.
It was our emperor Peter the Great - a unique man, who knew about 14 professions apart from the "profession" of an emperor - who was at the head of the construction projects in Peterhof. His wish was to compete in splendor and luxury with the residence in Versailles.
It is no coincidence that Peter the Great chose this very place for creating his residence of Petergof and the fountain system. The secret is that he made use of the natural character of the territory: the water comes from many springs from the hills in 22 km from St-Petersburg. Thus, the fountain system in Petergof is operated not by machinery, but by gravity.
When in summer all the fountains are in work they throw up about 31,000 liters of water per second (6,800 British gallons, or 8,200 Us gallons)!

The excursion lasts for 5 hours.

Open: 10.30 -16.00

Closed on Mon. and on the last Mon of every month .

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the palace and park ensemble of Peterhof
• Grand Palace and park with fountains
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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Tsarskoe Selo attracts the visitors by a fascinating Palace-and-Park ensemble - an impressing monument of the world's architectural and gardening arts. Its parks are distinguished by a subtle intimacy and especial lyricism.
The Catherine park gave name to the Catherine palace, a compositional center of the
Tsarskoselsky ensemble. Catherine Palace contains exquisite decorative objects , such as antique furniture , West-European and Russian paintings, an outstanding collection of porcelain, arms, bronze, sculptures. Though the most remarkable and unique in the Catherine palace, something that attracts people from different countries and is often called "the 8th wonder of the world", is the Amber room.
The Amber room used to be the richest room in the palace. The story of the first amber room started in the early 18th century when Prussian King Friedrich I ordered an amber study for his Potsdam Palace. But quite soon the amber panels fell off the walls and the architect was exiled.
The Study was taken apart and stored in boxes. During Peter the Great's visit to Prussia he was presented amber panels by Friedrich Wilhelm I, the son of Friedrich I. In exchange for such a valuable gift, our emperor in his turn presented
to Prussia 248 soldiers as well as a lathe and a wine cup which he had made himself.
The idea of making an amber study materialized only by the order of Elisabeth. And the amber room which we can see now is the replica of Rastrelli's work. He supplemented amber with mirror insertions, gild woodcarvings, mosaic panels of Ural jasper.
After the Nazi occupation the amber panels were stolen and, unfortunately, never found afterwards. The amber room that is represented now is created with the amber from the quarry in the Kaliningrad region. Still it is an excellent copy: some experts say, it can even compete with the original.
The palace was badly damaged during the World War II. Restoration works started in 1957 and are still in progress. The excursion to the Catherine palace starts from an exhibition room, where the visitors are shown the realized stages of the restorations. And after that in front of you opens a gallery of luxurious rooms of a unique palace.
Our guides will help you to feel the ancient times of the far away epochs!

The excursion lasts for 5 hours.

Open: 10.00-17.00

Closed on Tue and on the last Mon. of every month

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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It was built for Catherine II's son, the future emperor Paul I, and called by his name.
1777 is considered to be the year of the foundation of the residence. After Paul's death Pavlovsk belonged to his widow and remained a private royal property until the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
The history of Pavlovsk goes back to 1781-1782, when a young couple tsarevich Paul and his young wife Maria traveled to Europe. They visited Poland, Austria, Italy, France, Holland, Germany. Especially they liked the reception in France, where they were the guests of Louis XVI and his wife Maria-Antoinette. In every city of Europe they visited workshops of well- known artists, ordering and acquiring exquisite paintings, furniture, bronze articles, fragile china sets, refined silk fabrics.
They brought to the Russian capital antique Italian sculptures, masterpieces of painting and valuable gifts from the European royal courts.
Pavlovsk is an exclusive residence. In comparison with other residences which surround Saint-Petersburg, it was lucky to more or less conserve the original objects after the WWII. Thus, the visitors will see Pavlovsk in its natural beauty.\

The excursion lasts for 5 hours.

Open : 10.00-17.00

Closed on Fri . and on the first Mon. of every month.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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s family, cozy living-rooms, historic rooms connected with the tragic death of Rasputin.
The palace belonged to a one of the richest families in Russia - the Yusupovs' family. The Yusupovs' were great art connoisseurs. Their collection of paintings consisted of more than 1000 masterpieces. They also had an outstanding collection of antique sculptures and gold. By luxury the interior of Yusupov palace can be compared with the royal palaces interiors.

The Yusupov palace witnessed the murder of a Siberian peasant Rasputin who happened to have too much influence over the family of our last tsar Nicolas II. The guests of the palace are given a special tour devoted to Rasputin death. They show where Felix Yusupov and his accomplices tried to poison Rasputin (the poison did not have any affect on this enigmatic man), they beat him and finally shot him in the cellar in 1916.
The decision of a commission of experts was: Rasputin died only after being chucked into the Moika – he possessed an extraordinary power.

We welcome you to see one of the most mysterious palaces of Saint-Petersburg with us!

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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in fragments": the models of their houses, their occupations, their rites and traditions.
The collection of the Ethnography museum was started in 1899. At present the collection numbers over half a million exhibits. If you visit a Golden Room, you will be impressed by decorations, armaments and also cult objects made of precious stones.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Open : 10.00-17.00

Closed on Mon. and on the last Fri.of every month

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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The Russian museum

We welcome you to see the Russian art with us! Its best masterpieces you will find nowhere but here in Saint-Petersburg!
St-Petersburg is often called "a museum in the open air" due to the great number of museums, theatres and institutes concentrated in this city of culture and education.
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As for the Russian museum, it is situated in a very peculiar place called «Theatre square". The square got its name because of 8 different theatres which you can find there.
The museum is allocated in a marvelous Mikhailovsky palace built especially for Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, the junior son of Paul I. After Michael Pavlovich death his widow owned this palace. Her saloon was frequented by many Russian men of culture. In 1895 it was transferred into the treasury and they decided to organize a museum there.
The state Russian museum possesses one of the largest collections of the Russian applied art in the world. The museum collection totals about 400,000 items. Its collection spans from the medieval icons up to the modern works like Malevich and Kandinsky.
The excursion lasts for 3 hours.
Open: 10.00-17.00 Mon.till 16.00
Closed on Tue.
You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel
Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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Blagoveshenskaya" was sanctified.
From the very beginning they established a hospital for officers and service class people. In 1720 they have founded a school for clergymen's children. With time this school turned into the seminary and afterwards into a Theological Academy.
The construction in stone began under the project of Domenico Trezini. The first church of stone was built on the tomb of Peter the Great's beloved sister Natalia.
Alexander Nevsky Lavra became one of the first most important architectural ensembles of the Northern capital - St-Petersburg. A lot of architects took part in the construction of this masterpiece, but the main idea of Trezini's project (that is not only a monastery, but also a residence, an institution and a palace) was conserved.
Alexander Nevsky Lavra together with Peter and Paul's fortress and the Admiralty helped to form an architectural appearance of the "Northern Venice".
In 1724 the rests of Alexander Nevsky were brought to the monastery. Nowadays his marvelous made of silver shrine is exhibited in the Hermitage.
After the October revolution of 1917 the monastery was closed. Its masterpieces, numberless and icons were handled to the museums of St-Petersburg. In 1937 the authorities allowed to create a museum on the territory of Lavra, it is called "The city museum of sculpture". It still exists and during the excursion you will have the chance to see those marvelous works of art.
It is worth visiting the necropolis of the monastery. Such outstanding people like Lomonosov, Suvorov, Dostoevsky, Glinka, Chaikovsky are buried there. There are also just beautiful tomb sculptures hiding mysterious legends.
In Necropolis you can find a tomb of a watch-officer. They say, that once an emperor found him asleep on his post. The officer was given a pardon by the emperor, but he was so ashamed of his deed, that the next morning he died of a heart-break.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

 

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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He ordered to build a castle on a small island in a style of a medieval construction with drawn bridges, secret rooms and stairs.
But the fate of Paul I played a tragic joke on him. For 40 years he was a heir-in-law of Catherine the Great; for 4 years, 4 months and 4 days he was an emperor. He managed to live in Michael's castle only for 40 days. On the 111 of March of 1801 he was assassinated in a military plot in his own bedroom in Michael's castle. They say, that his son, future emperor Alexander I, was one of his murderers.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Open:10.00 -17.00 ,Mon till 16.00 Closed on Tue

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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In front of the palace a special moorage was built. Menshikov's palace was surrounded by a regular garden with sculptures and even grottoes with fountains. Being one of the richest houses in St-Petersburg and a governor's house, official receptions and state gala celebrations took place there.
In 1725 Peter the Great died. During the rein of Catherine the I (the wife of Peter I) Menshikov successfully ruled Russia. His daughter was to marry the heir to the throne, but, according to the history, she never did. The new government did not approve of Menshikov's policy and at the end of his prosperous career he was exiled to Siberia.
After the October revolution of 1917 the building was used by different educational
establishments. From 1732-1918 it housed a famous Cadet school, which gave Russia such talented army commanders as Peter Rumiancev and Alexander Suvorov.
In 1956 the restoration of Menshikov's palace was started and it acquired its original view.
Notwithstanding all the changed which happened to the palace after the revolution, it preserved
original fragments of the interiors of the XVIII century, among them the famous Dutch tiles and
Walnut study. There you will see objects of everyday life that go back to the end of the 17th
century and personal belongings of Peter I and his favourite - Prince Menshikov.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

Non-working day: Mon.

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

 

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Saint-Petersburg museum of vodka is the first and unique museum of this
style in the world.
Here, except for the history of appearance of vodka in Russia, you will find out how to drink this traditional Russian beverage "in the right way" when tasting it in a special hall (the tasting is included in the ticket price).
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Saint-Petersburg museum of vodka is the first and unique museum of this
style in the world.
Here, except for the history of appearance of vodka in Russia, you will find out how to drink this traditional Russian beverage "in the right way" when tasting it in a special hall (the tasting is included in the ticket price).
The museum was open in 2001. It has a very good location being situated in
the very center of the city, quite near to bronze horseman and Saint-Isaac's cathedral.
There are 2 main halls in the museum - historical and modern one. The interior of the hall devoted to the history of vodka resembles a Russian 19th century pub: benches and tables are made of wood in an old design and the main decoration is a polished shining gramophone.
But what the vodka museum without tasting? In the tasting hall you'll be
offered three portions of vodka (free of charge) and three kinds of different snacks.
You will be treated to salty cucumbers, Russian pancakes, mushrooms, salmon...
Mint tea will be served from a real old samovar.
In the museum it is possible to buy original souvenirs - nice vodka in original bottles which is always for sell without additional charges.
Visitors of the museum have a rare chance to see with their own eyes that the process of vodka production was organized by last achievements of technique of that time. Public is shown an interesting composition depicting Russian monarch with first device for producing vodka. Employees of the museum will satisfy
curiosity of their visitors telling them about alcoholic predilections of Russian
emperors and presidents.
Vodka is part of the Russian history. We hope that the exposition of the
museum will help you find out many extraordinary facts about this beloved
Russian beverage.

The excursion lasts for 3 hours.

 

You program is:
• Meeting at the reception of you hotel
• Transfer to the museum
• Excursion in the museum and on the way to the museum
• Transfer back to the hotel

Excursion includes:
• Entry tickets to the museum.
• Interpreter services in the major world languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian). Rare languages require extra payment. Please, consult our staff.
• Transport services are included if you have chosen an excursion by car. Usually it is a mini-van for 1-4 people or a small bus for 5-15 people.

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We invite you to visit the unique Gold rooms of the Hermitage and plunge into the atmosphere of real treasure-house.

The Gold rooms of the Hermitage
The first section of the Hermitage Treasure Gallery is called the Gold Rooms. There are the artifacts from Eurasia, the Black Sea Littoral in antiquity, and the Orient. Around 1,500 exhibits made of gold and dating from the 7th century B.C to the 19th century A.D. are shown there.
In the Gold rooms you can see the unique archaeological finds from the North Coast of the Black Sea, Northern Caucasus and Western Siberia, including Siberian Collection assembled by Peter the Great dates from the 1st millennium B.C, the Scythian Gold of the 7th-4th centuries B.C., etc.
The Gold rooms feature also the jewelry from the Ancient Greek cities on the Black Sea such as treasures from the Kul-Oba mound, the fabulous Theodosian earrings, and the world-famous golden ornaments of a Greek priestess from the mounds at Bolshaya Bliznitsa.
Those who are interested in the East will be satisfied discovering the Oriental Jewellery collection, which covers Central Asia and the Caucasus, India and Iran, Turkey and Egypt, Byzantium, Mongolia, China, and South America.

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We invite you to visit the unique Diamond rooms of the Hermitage and plunge into the atmosphere of real treasure-house.

The Diamond rooms of the Hermitage
In the Diamond Rooms of the Hermitage you can retrace the development of the jeweler`s art since the third millennium B.C. to the start of the 20th century.
The first two rooms feature the artifacts of the primitive era and the ancient times. There you can see the exhibits from the Northern Caucasus among which are the most ancient examples of artistic metal-working in the Hermitage: necklaces of gold, plaques in the form of rings, gold and silver vessels, figurines of walking bulls and lions, etc. Moreover, you can admire the collection of Scythian gold, the gold jewelry articles of the skilled Greek craftsmen and other treasures of the very ancient times.
In the third room you can see Byzantine and post-Byzantine applied arts of the 6th-18th centuries and West European applied arts of the Middle Ages. These are the objects made according to the unique Byzantine technique, the altars decorations and medieval jewelers in Gothic style.
The fourth room opens the treasure collections of rock crystal and stone vessels of the 16th and 17th c. made by European masters, wonderful pendants from pearls and precious stones of Renaissance masters and watches of the 17th c.
At last in the fifth room you can recognize the 18th-20th c. jewelry and admire the magnificence of the German gold statuettes, various decorations and the unique toilet service of the Empress Anna Ioannovna, as well as the superb collection of clocks and watches including works of English, French and Swiss masters. Besides do not forget to pay attention to St. Petersburg jewelry school and the celebrated works of Carl Faberge whose models of the Imperial regalia won grand prix at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900.

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