Luxury Petersburg (5 days/4 nights)

Day 1

We offer you to begin acquaintance with the Northern capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, with a sightseeing tour of the city. You will learn the basic facts about the most famous St. Petersburg buildings, monuments, streets and squares, gardens and parks. You will hear about the main events in the life of St. Petersburg.You will see St. Isaac’s square with the majestic St. Isaac’s Cathedral,the Bronze Horseman, the Admiralty building, a solemn residence of the Russian emperors — the Winter Palace, as well as the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood and the Field of Mars. Then the route leads to the Peter and Paul Fortress, which you will be able to visit. The historic core of St. Petersburg, the tomb of Russian tsars, the main political prison of Tsarist (and later Bolshevik) Russia – all this is about the Peter and Paul Fortress. During this tour you will walk along Hare island, on which the fortress is located, visit the Peter and Paul Cathedral with its famous tombs of the emperors, where you can see the burial places of Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Alexander III, Catherine II and, of course, the tomb of the founder of St. Petersburg – Peter the Great.

Day 2

Today we invite you to make a hydrofoil voyage to Peterhof. You will avoid traffic jams of the big city by using the fastest, convenient and spectacular way to get to Peterhof.

Just 45-minute comfortable voyage during which you will admire the panorama of the Gulf of Finland, and you are already at the pier of the Lower Gardens. Peterhof is a magnificent country residence of Russian tsars, founded by Peter I on the shore of the Gulf of Finland in 1705. There are more than a hundred fountains in Peterhof, that is why it was nicknamed Russian Versailles. In the beginning of the XVIII century, a road connected St.Petersburg and Peterhof. Plots of land along the road were allocated to members of the Imperial family and those close to them. Beautiful summer manors appeared there. Some of them have survived to this day, such as Novoznamenka, Mikhailovka, Alexandria and recently restored Konstantinovskaya manor. Very demanding tourists are offered special entertainment in the luxurious urroundings of Peterhof. It is sturgeon fishing. In the picturesque pond near the Marly Palace, fish was farmed for the imperial table in tsarist days. And today you will be able to catch a nice sturgeon that will go to the restaurant kitchen and will be cooked especially for you. The fishing will be good for everyone!

Day 3

Being in St. Petersburg, one should not miss visiting the Hermitage. The Hermitage is a treasury of St. Petersburg, the largest museum in Russia, one of the largest museums in the world. The tour to the Hermitage will be one of the brightest impressions of St. Petersburg.The Hermitage has a collection of about three million works of art and monuments of the world’s culture.The collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and applied arts, archaeological finds and numismatic items.In addition to the Hermitage collections, you will see the interiors of the museum buildings. First of all, it is the Winter Palace,the official residence of Russian monarchs. The first one who started to use it as the residence was Catherine II. And she laid the foundation for the Hermitage collection. After an early dinner at one of the city’s restaurants recommended by us, we invite you to enjoy a ballet or opera on the Main or Second Stage of the Mariinsky theatre.

Day 4

On this day you again will leave St. Petersburg and go on a journey to the summer residence of Russian tsars, the town of Pushkin, former Tsarskoye Selo.You will have a tour through the main halls of the “pearl” of the Russian Baroque Style, the Grand Catherine Palace,and visit the world-famous Amber room. During lunch at the Russian restaurant “Podvorie” you will enjoy a folklore performance. And then, you will head off to Pavlovsk. Accompanied by an experienced guide you will visit the Pavlovsk Palace, which is, perhaps, one of the coziest Imperial residences, and take a walk through one of the largest landscape parks in the world – Pavlovsk Park. There you will admire the Pavilion of Three Graces, Amphitheater, Open-air Theater, Apollo’s Colonnade, bridges, columns, ponds and lakes.

Day 5

Transfer to the airport.Flight back.