Sightseeing tours in Saint Petersburg, Russia and its suburbs

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St. Petersburg is one of the biggest centers of architecture in the world. Would you like to get your bearings among thousands of monuments? Then you need an experienced guide.

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Highly experienced guides and professional drivers will make your stay in Saint Petersburg unforgettably bright and rich.

We are glad to introduce guided tours to the environs of St. Petersburg, such as tours to Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Peterhof (including admission to Amber room) and its fountains. We deliver professional tours for the most reasonable rates in the city.

Tour to the museum-reserve Peterfof — is an excursion to the museum of 150 fountains. The biggest fountain in Peterhof is Samson Fountain, it shoots a 18-metre-high vertical jet of water. All the fountains in Peterhof operate without use of pumps, the architects of this museum used natural pressure of water collected into the system of canals and ponds.

Tour to the museum Peterhof (Petrodvoretz) gives an opportunity to see not only fountains of so-called Lower Gardens ("Nizhnii Sad") and the museum "Grand Palace". On the territory of the Peterhof museum-reserve there are more than 15 different museums, representing the atmosphere of life of Russian tsars of Romanovs' dynasty.

  1. Tour to the museum of Peterhof "Cottage Palace" — summer residence of Nikolai I. In the museum there are many works of Ivan Aivasovsky and a rich collection of exclusive Russian glass pieces of art.
  2. Tour to the Peterhof museum "Tsaritsa's and Olga's pavilions". On the islands of Kolonistsky pond there are wonderful gardens of tsar's wife Alexandra Feodorovna and his daughter Olga, created in Italian style. ("A Crystal column" made of blue crystal is exhibited there).
  3. Tour to the museum of Peterhof "Special Stockrooms". You can see private rooms of the empress Ekaterina the Great. The museum contains a collection of private things and clothes of all Russian emperors from Peter the Great to Nikolai II. Also, there is a rich collection of jewelry of "Faberge House".
  4. Tour to the Peterhof museum "Hermitage". This light pavilion for small receptions surrounded by the alleys and fountains on the shore of the Gulf of Finland is a bright example of the architecture from the times of Peter the Great.
  5. Tour to "Monplaisir" palace. This small one-storeyed palace of Peter the Great located on the shore terrace near the Gulf of Finland amazes by its ideal and clear architecture style and elegance of its interiors.
  6. Tour to the Peterhof museum "Sauna building". It is a unique opportunity to find out how Russian tsars had a bath.

Car Tour about St. Petersburg gives the opportunity to get acquainted with the history and geography of the city and at the same time to visit the most popular museums of St. Petersburg. The list of these Tours includes:

  1. Tours to Saint Petersburg museum "The State Hermitage", one of the biggest museums in the world, which contains about 3 000 000 pieces of art.
  2. Tour to Saint Petersburg museum the "Peter and Paul Fortress", a big fortification of the beginning of the 18 century, which is at the same time, is a burial place of Russian tsars of the Romanovs' house. In the fortress there is also a museum "Political prison of tsar's Russia".
  3. Tour to St. Isaac's Cathedral, former main cathedral of the Russian Empire, now a museum.
  4. Tour to the Saint Petersburg museum "Church of Resurrection of the Christ" ("Church on spilled blood"). The church was erected on the place where Russian emperor Alexander II was killed. The walls of the church are inlayed with mosaic (more than 7 000 sq. meters).
  5. Tour to the Russian museum which contains the world biggest collection of the Russian art.
  6. Tour to museum of Saint Petersburg "Dostoevsky Memorial Apartment Museum". In this apartment famous Russian writer Dostoevsky lived the last years of his life.
  7. Tour to the Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra, the burial place of the composers Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, writer Dostoevsky, scientist Lomonosov, mathematician Leonard Euler and many other outstanding Russian people.
  8. Tour to the state museum "Catherin's Palace" located in the town Pushkin (former "Tsarskoye Selo" - "The Royal Village"). The palace is the most beautiful summer place of the Russian tsars of the Romanovs' house, where you can see the famous "Amber Room". Catherin's Palace is the only museum where it is possible to see the interiors of the middle of the 18 century, made in the famous "Russian baroque" style. "The golden suite" of halls and rooms of the palace made according to the project of the architect B.Rastrelli was conceived by Catherine the Great to amaze visitors by its beauty and richness. And the empress succeeded.