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St. Petersburg Excursion

Boat cruise

3 hour cruise
starts from $ 60

The cruise starts from the mooring at Pevchesky Bridge close to the Capella and the Palace Square as this place is very convenient to leave the bus and to continue excursions round the city. After embarking the cruise boat heads for the St-Isaac's Square passing under Narodny (Peoples) Bridge across the Nevsky Prospect, Red Bridge across Gorokhovaya street and Blue Bridge which is considered to be the widest bridge of the city and is enclosed into St-Isaac's Square. More >>>

The Marble Palace

3 hour tour
starts from $ 50

This architectural monument of the XVIII century (architect A. Rinaldi) gained its popularity after the redecoration when over 30 tints of marble were used, hence the delighted contemporaries gave the Palace the name Marble. More >>>

The Central Naval Museum

3 hour tour
starts from $ 50

The Central Naval Museum is one of the oldest naval museums in Russia - it was founded with the organisation of the regular fleet. The museum began its history with the founding by Peter the Great of the Model-Camera (January, 1709) that was later reorganised into the Naval Museum which is located in the building of the Stock Exchange designed by the architect T. De Thomon in 1810. More >>>

The museum of Urban sculpture

3 hour tour
starts from $ 55

This is the only museum in Russia displaying and restoring Monumental Sculpture in the open air. The museum, located on the Grounds of Alexander Nevsky Laura, leads its history from the Museum of the Laura's Relicts founded in 1909. More >>>

The Russian Ethnographical Museum

3 hour tour
starts from $ 50

The exhibition of the museum illustrates everyday life and culture of more than 150 peoples of Russia in XIX-ХХ centuries. The collection of the museum numbers over a half a million of exhibits. In the Golden Room one can see ornaments, armory, cult objects made of gold and silver and decorated with precious stones. More >>>

The State Russian Museum

3 hour tour
starts from $ 55

The State Russian Museum was opened to visitors on the XVII of March 1898 in the Mikhailovsky Palace (architect C. Rossi). Nowadays it is the largest center of Traditional Russian Art owing almost 400 thousand exhibits. More >>>

The Summer palace of Peter the Great

3 hour tour
starts from $ 55

One of the first stone buildings of Saint-Petersburg (architect D. Trezzini, 1712) is located on the grounds of the Summer Garden. The interior decoration of the early XVIII century style offers a nice selection of Russian and Western-European paintings, decorative and applied art of the late ХVII - beginning of the XVIII centuries, as well as personal belongings of Peter the Great. More >>>

The Yussupov Palace

Halfday tour
starts from $ 70

The Yussupov Palace situated on the bank of the Moika River is one of the most interesting places of sightseeing in Saint-Petersburg. It is one of those places which successfully combine a charm of historical building and a fame of cultural center. Music, theatre and poesy rest there in harmony with architecture and historic background. More >>>

The palace-and-park ensemble Oranienbaum

Halfday tour
starts from $ 75

The palace-and-park ensemble is situated on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland opposite Kronshtadt (architects D. Fontana and I. Schedel). In 1743 Oranienbaum became the summer residence of the Emperor Paul III. The Fortress Petershtadt with a petite palace was constructed for him by A. Rinaldi. More >>>

The Palace-and-Park Ensemble Pushkin

Halfday tour
starts from $ 85

The Palace-and-Park Ensemble - a former residence of the Russian emperors - is a spectacular monument of architecture and art of gardening of XVIII-XIX centuries. Its three parks cover 600 ha housing over a hundred of buildings from magnificent palaces and monuments to intimate pavilions and sculpture. More >>>

The Palace-and-Park ensemble Pavlovsk

Halfday tour
starts from $ 80

The superb Palace-and-Park ensemble of the late XVIII - the beginning of the XIX centuries is the former summer residence of the Russian Emperor Paul I and his family. This is one of the largest landscape parks in Europe, which covers the area of 600 ha. The works on the creating of the ensemble on the banks of the Slavyanka River were held for 50 years by architects Ch. Kameron, G. Guarenghi, A. Voronikhin, C. Rossi. More >>>

Peterhof

Halfday tour
starts from $ 95

Peterhof is a jewel of the Russian art, a town of parks, palaces and fountains. In the past it used to be an exquisite summer residence of the Russian tsars. The Upper and the Lower Parks are the masterpieces of art of gardening numbering over 170 fountains, 5 monumental cascades. More >>>

The Peter and Paul Fortress

3 hour tour
starts from $ 50

The Peter and Paul Fortress was founded by Peter I in 1703 as the fortification building on Zayachy Island. Apart from the ancient fortifications, on the grounds of the fortress one can visit the Peter and Paul Cathedral (the first half of the XVIII century, D. Trezzini) with the tombs of Peter the Great and other Russian Tsars, the Trubetskoy Bastion casemates and the following permanent exhibitions. More >>>

The Church on the Spilt Blood

3 hour tour
starts from $ 60

The Church on the Spilt Blood was built in 1907 on the site of assassination of Alexander II who was one of the most progressive Russian Tsar of the XIX century. Pseudo-Russian style combined with applied art of the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries and mosaic interiors create an unforgettable impression of Russian Fairy tales. More >>>

The Saint-Isaac's Cathedral

3 hour tour
starts from $ 55

The Saint-Isaac's Cathedral is one of the finest monuments of architecture of the XIX century after the project of A. Montferrand. The Saint-Isaac's is the former principal cathedral of the Russian Capital, the largest cathedral in the city with capacity up to 10 thousand people. It is decorated by 112 monolith granite columns 114 tons each and by 400 relieves and bronze sculptures. More >>>

The State Hermitage

4 hour tour
starts from $ 65

The State Hermitage is one of the largest museums of the world. It is situated in 5 historical buildings including the former residence of Russian Tsars, the Small Hermitage, the Grand (Old) Hermitage, the New Hermitage and the Hermitage Theatre, which are architectural chef d'oeuvres themselves. 400 halls of the Hermitage house the collection of over 3 mln exhibits of prehistoric art, Egyptian art, art of Ancient Greece and Rome, Scythian gold, fine collection of Western-European art. More >>>

City tour

3 hour tour
starts from $ 50

A city tour usually starts with a panoramic view of the center of St-Petersburg from the Vasilievsky Island, from the place called the Strelka (Spit). Here the Neva is 200 meters wide and splits into two broad streams. The right bank of the river is the Palace Embankment. You'll see a magnificent facade of the Winter Palace along it followed by the Summer Gardens with the Summer House of Peter I. The Palace Bridge separates the Winter Palace from the Admiralty built in the classic style and the Bronze Horseman dominating the Decemberists Square. More >>>

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