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Duration of the tour is 3 hours.
Starting and ending points of the tour are anywhere in the city on client request.
The general plan includes transfers to the museum and back. On the way to the St. Isaac's Cathedral, our guide will introduce you to other places of interest in the city centre of Saint-Petersburg. The tour introduces the detailed history of the St. Isaac's Cathedral construction. The creation of Aougusto Montferrand,the French architect is the fourth temple in honor of Saint Isaac of Dalmatia (patron saint of Peter the Great), built in St. Petersburg. During the cathedral construction, the latest for the19th century technologies that amaze even today were used. During our excursion it can be clearly seen on the mock-ups how the most complex engineering problems of the time were solved. For example, the installation of St. Isaac's Cathedral’s 112 ton columns or the external dome gold-plating technique that caused deaths of many serfs because of the toxic mercury vapor. The cathedral is richly decorated with semiprecious stones and it resembles the Cathedral of St Peter in Vatican. The paintings created by the Russian craftsmen in the style of mosaic are also worthy of special attention. According to your desire, it is possible to rise by cathedral colonnade and contemplate Petersburg from height of bird's flight. Height is 101.5 m, internal area — more than 4000 square meters.
