Four-day program

1st day

9:30 Your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby.

9:30-13:20 We will drive you around Central St.Petersburg in a car (or minibus for a small group) to show you all of the city’s main highlights :
the Kazan Cathedral, The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, St.Isaac’s Cathedral, St.Nicholas Naval Cathedral, the Summer Garden, the Stroganov Palace, as well as the imperial residences of the Anichkov Palace, the Marble Palace and as the culmination the Winter Palace.

The city tour includes a drive down Nevsky Prospect the main thoroughfare of St. Petersburg and allows for a few stop to enable you to enjoy the sights and take pictures.

                   

   The centerpiece of the morning programme will be a tour of the Peter and Paul Fortress -St. Petersburg’s birthplace which will incorporate a visit to    the cathedral of the same name, where all Russian Emperors were laid to rest.

              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

  

 

 

 

 

 

 13:20-14:00 Guided tour of Savior on the Spilt Blood Church

             

 14:00-15:00   Time for lunch  *Optional 

.15:00-17:00 Next point of your programme- A tour of the Russian Museum/ It  will deepen your appreciation of Russian art – from the 12th century icons to avant-garde paintings of the 20th century - and offer you an insight into the history of the nation , as well. This gem o fa museum – formerly the palace of Grand Duke Mikhail, Paul I’s youngest son –displays over 400,000 works of art.

                  
  17:00-17:30 After the guided tour of the Russian Museum You guide and driver will take you back to the hotel.

2nd day 

9:30 Your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby and you will start to the Hermitage by car.

10:00-13:00 – Guided tour of the State Hermitage Museum (early entry) focusing on the department of West European art with its world famous paintings by Rembrandt, Velasquez, da Vinci, Boucher, Gainsborough, Picasso, Renoir, and Van Gogh. The tour will also include magnificent Gala rooms, among them St.George Room, the Gold Drawing Room, and the Raphael Loggias.

           

  13:30-14:30  Time for lunch  *Optional 

14:30-17:00 Tour of the Yusupov Palace, which is equally interesting for lovers of arts and history and often referred to as an encyclopedia of aristocratic interior design of St Petersburg. For 200 years, it was owned by five generations of the Yusupov family – one of wealthiest noble families in Russia, and became famed as the scene of Grigory Rasputin’s murder by Prince Rasputin. Sumptuously rich interiors, in-depth story of the family’s illustrious history and, finally, an exhibit of Rasputin’s murder will arrest your imagination.

             
 17:00-18:00 Your impression of St Petersburg when viewed from a boat will be totally different that from a car window. So, a boat trip on the canals and rivers is a must-do.

18:00-18:30 After the Boat trip, your guide and driver will take you back to the hotel.

3d day

9:30 Your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby.

9:30-10:45 We will drive you to one of the most spectacular of all imperial residences in the suburbs of St Petersburg – the Catherine Palace (about 30 km south of the city). A tour of the magnificent interiors of the palace with its stunning 200 meter long golden suite of rooms and the world famous Amber Room will be followed by a stroll in the scenic Catherine Park, where you will wander through an array of marvelous pavilions, grottoes, statues and monuments – including the Baroque Hermitage pavilion, a granite terrace, a Turkish Bath and many others silently treasuring their long histories which your guide will reveal to you.

         

10:45-13:00 Tours of the Catherine Palace and Park

13:00-14:30  Time for lunch  *Optional 

14:30-17:00 The next step in your exploration of St Petersburg will be Pavlovsk – the Palace and the Park (It will be only a 10 minute journey by car from the Podvorye restaurant.) – Guided tour of the palace and the park. The place was the summer residence of Paul I and his wife Maria Fyodorovna. Compared to other imperial palaces, the one in Pavlovsk excels as an example of refined taste and displays numerous pieces of applied arts which could be saved during the World War II. The enormous Pavlovsk Park is a perfect place to cast care aside and enjoy its picturesque views.

           

17:00-18:30 Drive back to Saint-Petersburg

4th day

9:30 Your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby to take you to the jetty outside the Hermitage museum.

10:00- It will be a trip by hydrofoil to Peterhof – the summer residence of Russian tsars founded by Peter the Great.

10:30-13:30 Tour of the Lower Park and the Bath Wing. You will be stunned by 200 splendid fountains, which are responsible for the fact that the place was rightly referred to as a second Versailles. The tour also includes a visit to one of the lesser palaces - the Bath Wing, where you will know exciting facts from the lives of the high and mightiest.

            
      
13:30-14:30  Time for lunch  *Optional 

 14:30-15:30 You will spend the next sixty minutes in a drive to Kronshtadt.

15:30-17:00 A tour of the little town of Kronshtadt which is well worth a visit despite not being included in the lists of top 10 tourist attractions of St Petersburg and its environs for a city’s glory and specialness don’t always depend on its size. Founded by Peter the Great as a fortress in 1704, Kronshtadt was used as a naval base, a commercial sea port and the gateway to St Petersburg. It was from Kronshtadt that all round-the-world sails started. In 2006 President Dmitry Medveded awarded Kronshtadt with the title of a City of Naval Glory. Until 1996 visits to the city were strictly restricted for foreigners.

             
            

17:00-18:30 – Drive back to St. Petersburg. 

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