Two Capitals of Russia

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. Visit of Isaac Cathedral – the largest orthodox cathedral of Saint Petersburg.

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.

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”.

Transfer to the airport and flight to Moscow. Our tour is based on flight to Moscow but those people who does not eager to waste time for custom can take advantage of trip to Moscow by a high speed train Sapsan.

The precise amount of extra fee for train trip can be found during reservation process.

The beginning of city overview tour. Among several sights of the city we can distinguish the whole range of unique places and buildings which are world famous. These are surely the Kremlin, Bolshoy Theatre, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Novodevichy Convent, Saint Basil’s Cathedral. You will see unique of a kind erections such as hyperboloid structure of Shuhov tower and Ostankino tower which had been the tallest construction for height years.

Kremlin – the most ancient part of Moscow, the main socio-political and historical-artistic complex of the capital, the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation. During the tour you will be able to visit the famous Kremlin cathedrals (Uspensky, Cathedral of Annunciation (Blagoveschensky), Cathedral of the Archangel).

Visit of the Kremlin armoury – treasury-museum – is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace. The basis of museum collection are valuable objects stored for ages in emperor treasuries; these were made in the Kremlin workshops as well as received as gift from foreign states embassies. The museum takes its name after one of the ancient Kremlin treasury depots.

Lunch in a restaurant.

The tour will be continued in Moscow underground. The Moscow underground serves daily 8 million passengers in average it features by 172 stations, 11 lines of total length of 260 km.

The Moscow underground is the leader in terms of lines length and passenger traffic among city railway systems of the whole world.

Transfer to airport and flight to Saint Petersburg (or high speed train trip).

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.

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 imperor. At present a historic-documentary exhibition is located in these rooms.