excursions and sightseeing....

Nathalie Svobodova, has a university degree in English language and the diploma of the Guides School of St.Petersburg. She has been working as a guide for more than 15 years, has licences for all the main museum's in the city and its saburbs and is a member of the Association of the guides of St.Petersburg, licence number 135.

Catherine Topolova is a graduate of the faculty of languages of St.Petersburg State University. She has completed a special art history course for the guides and has been working with foreign groups and delegations for over 15 years. She has licences for all the major museums of St.Petersburg and its suburbs and is a member of the Association of Professional Guides and Interpreters of St.Petersburg,
licence number 63.

For you to learn more about St.Petersburg, Russia and to enjoy your time we are happy to offer you a number of our most entertaining excursions, so you may choose and mail us your request.

We can provide sightseeing according to your request , so you may choose various options:

- half- or full-day city tour ;
- visiting museums according to your choice;
- boat-ride (during summer time);
- personal driver for city tour;
- visiting palaces and gardens in the suburb of the city.


Please mail us and we will arrange your individual programme and quote you depending on your choice.

Boat-ride.

There is no better way to see the historic heart of St.Petersburg than from its waterways. Visiting our city and not exploring its numerous rivers and canals by boat would be an inexcusable mistake. It is not for nothing that St.Petersbutg has earned the nickname “The Northern Venice”. The city is divided into small islands linked by bridges.
Boat trips offer a unique opportunity to see the most beautiful architectural ensembles of the city centre and the famous granite embankments featured in classic Russian literature.
Duration - 1,5 hours.

City Tour.

During the tour your guide will show you the historical parts of St.Petersburg, you will trace the development of the city from the times of Peter the Great with its early baroque ensembles, through the emperial palaces of the epoch of Catherine the Great and the 19th cent. Empire style. You will learn more about the revolutionary history of Russia and of course see the modern life of St.Petersburg.

The city tour can be combined with the visit of any museums you like (entrance fee is not included) including The Peter-and-Paul fortress - the city's first structure. The main attraction is Domenico Trezzini's St.Peter and Paul cathedral. Almost all Romanov tsars, including Nicholas ll are buried here.

                          We welcome you to choose more from the city sights!

St.Isaac's Cathedral - one of the most beautiful examples of Russian classical architecture of the 19th cent. The enteriors adorned with gold trim, mosaics and paintings.
Duration - 1 hour.

The Curch of the Saviour on the Spilt Blood - one of the most beautiful landmarks of the city. Sometimes called the mosaic church, because of the rich colours on its onion domes and 7000 square meters of mosaics that decorate it.
Duration - 1 hour.

We suggest the tour of the Hermitage museum with over 3 million works of art and trasures, housed in 5 connected buildings. You will explore the collections of Western european art - the works of Leonardo, Titian, El Greco, Picasso, Van Gogh. The baroque interioes of the Winter palace - winter residence of the Russian tsars will make you gasp.
Duration - 3 hours.

The Russian Museum. You will see the largest collection of Russian art housed in impressive Mikailovsky Palace by the architect Carlo Rossi. The collection spans from the 12th cent. Icons to the 20th cent. works by Malevitch, Chagall.
Duration - 2 hours

The Mystery of the Yusupov Palace  - the story of Rasputin's murder unfolds here!
This remarkable 18th century residence built on the banks of the Moika river is known today by the name of its last owner prior to the Russian Revolution. Yusupov Palace is one of the 50 palaces owned by the wealthy noble Yusupov family, patrons of art that assembled an exceptional collection of paintings, sculpture and applied art, which rivaled with the court for the opulence of their receptions and received monarchs in their apartments as guests. This great ensemble is an example of noble life in its extreme, almost regal splendor.
We’ll tour this great palace, including the family’s magnificent private theatre where nobles came to be entertained.
The palace’s notoriety and intrigue comes from the role it played in the assasination of Rasputin, one of the most contradictory figures in Russian history. Here, in the old mansion on the Moika, a bloody drama was played out . Join us and we’ll take you to the hidden basement chamber where you experience the scene as it was laid out on the fateful night of Rasputin’s death.
Duration - 1 hour.

The tour of Alexander Nevsky Lavra founded by Peter the Great in 1710 - the most important orthodox monastery is the most important in St.Petersburg. We can visit the graves of Russia's greatest composers and writers, including Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Glinka and Dostoevsky.
Duration - 1 hour.

          We welcome you to enjoy the picturesque suburbs of St.Petersburg!

Tsarskoye Selo and Catherine’s Palace.

In the town of Pushkin, 16 miles to the south of St.Petersburg, stands one of the most beautiful and opulent palaces of the Golden Era of the Tsars. Commonly known as Catherine’s Palace, it was a favourite place of relaxation for all the Russian monarchs, used for great balls and masquerades< as well as formal diplomatic receptions. The residence was especially loved by two empresses, Elizabethn and Catherine II, who spent time there in winter as well as in summer.

The picturesque facades of the palace painted in bright azure-blue, white and gold, are dazzlingly beautiful. The interior is even more magnificent than the exterior. The suite of rooms known as the Golden Enfilade, where walls and doors are adorned with guilded carvings are outstanding. Don’t miss the Catherine’s Palace, and you’ll see the Great Hall which was copied after the Hall of Mirrors in Versaille !
The literal gem of Catherine’s Palace is the Amber Room that was called one of the 8 wonders of the world. Plundered by the Nazis in World War II, the amber decoration of the room is now restored.

Walk in an astonishingly splendid park with terraces, mirror ponds and marble sculptures.
Here one needs very little imagination to picture emperors and empresses, fine-mannered courtiers and military men in their uniforms strolling along the alleys of the park.

Peterhof.

This estate founded by Peter the Great as his naval summer residence is proudly called “The Russian Versaille”. Situated at a distance of 20 miles from the city, it’s a great palace and park complex which covers the area of some 2000 acres. You can find there a dozen palaces and pavilions that belonged to the Romanovs, but the main beauty of Peterhof is its gardens with more than 150 fountains that play by gravity ! Even if you get splashed by one of the trick fountains, it’s a sign of good luck !
Peterhof can be reached by car, or by a comfortable hydrofoil that leaves from the pier in front of the Hermitage Museum.

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