Northern Venice

Departure for city short-time loop tour; during this tour you will see Nevsky avenue, Arts square and Isaac square, Cherch of the Savior on Blood, Anichkov bridge, Mariinsky Theatre. After that you will be able to visit Peter and Paul Fortress – the urban node, also you will have the possibility to explore Peter and Paul Cathedral – the Cathedral named after Apostles Peter and Paul. Then you will visit the famous military cruiser Aurora and Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral which is functional nowadays.

Lunch in a restaurant.

And then you will visit Hermitage, the largest in Russia and one of the largest art and cultural-historical museums in the world. The modern State Hermitage occupies six impressive buildings located along side of Neva river in the center of Saint Petersburg. Hermitage was founded in 1764 as private collection of Catherine II but since 1852 it is opened for public. One of the largest collection in the whole world has been accumulated during one century and a half, it comprises nearly 3 million artworks and monuments of global culture which are located in more than 400 rooms.

Hermitage accommodates such masterpieces like works of Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Tiziano, Рембрандт, P.P.Rubens, A. Van Dyck, El Greco, N.Poussin, V.Van Gogh, P.Gauguin, P.Picasso, A.Matisse.

Visit of Peterhof, the former tsar residence. This global architecture memorial and palace and garden art comprises the palace and garden complex dated 18-19 centuries and the Grand Palace of Peterhof consisting of more than 30 rooms richly decorated, ceilings are pictured, parquetry flooring is encrusted and wall are gold-plated.

The tour comprises a walk in Upper and Lower gardens.

After walk in Peterhof gardens you will have lunch in a restaurant.

Yusupov palace visit – this is a unique architectural complex of XVIII-XX centuries, historical monument referred also as “encyclopedia” of Saint Petersburg aristocratic interior. The Palace and surrounding homestead biography ascends to Peter the First times, to the period of young Northern capital birth. Palace and garden complex had been created for almost two centuries. Five generations of the famous noble-born princes of Yusupov had been the owners of the Palace and garden from 1830 to 1917. The Palace took its place in Russian history as a place of murder of Gregory Rasputin – counselor and family friend of Nikolay II emperor. At present a historic-documentary exhibition is located in these rooms.

3rd day

Trip to the State Museum-Preserve “Tsarskoe Selo” – a brilliant monument of the global architecture and garden art of XVIII – early XX century. Great constellation of outstanding architects, sculptors, artists embodied here the conceptions of their glorious Customers. Composition center of this monument is Catherine Palace – a magnificent edifice in Russian baroque style. Luxury decoration of Grand hall of the Palace and “Golden enfilade” do impress, you can also see the famous restored Amber room. Lunch in a restaurant.

Travel along rivers and channels of Saint Petersburg. You will see the whole city of tsar times from water. Rivers travel – Fontanka, Moyka, Bolshaya and Malaya Neva, you will see giant metal bridges with pivot spans, stone “curved” chiseled little bridges above little rivers and channels. There are more than 340 of them. Travel along rivers and channels is trip at “Nothern Venice”.