Great choice of St. Petersburg (Russia) private city tours

Panoramic St.Petersburg Russia private tours

It is the journey by car through the center of the city of St. Petersburg. During this St.Petersburg Russia private tours you will get a good overview of the history, architecture and main tourist attractions of the city. You will explore the imperial beauty and splendor of the northern capital of Russia: St. Nicholas Cathedral, St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress , St. Isaac`s Cathedral and Our Saviour on Spilled Blood, the main prospect Nevsky and the river Neva with its cool morning - are just a few parts of the city`s charm. St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia. It is well known cultural center, economic, political and scientific. With our St.Petersburg Russia private tours you can enjoy the gardens, parks, squares, straight roads, rivers and canals of our city.

St. Petersburg tour guides to Hermitage

It is the third museum in the world after the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. The museum consists of 5 buildings: the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, the New Hermitage and Hermitage Theatre. St. Petersburg tour guides start your visit from the staterooms, a former personal chambers and will keep on with the departments of the museum which keep about 3 million objects of art and culture of European and Oriental peoples of ancient times up to present day.

Working hours: from 10:30 am to 18pm, Sunday to 19 pm
Closed: Monday

St. Petersburg tour guides to Russian Museum

Walking around the luxurious rooms of the palace you will see the largest collection of Russian art from ancient icons to avant-garde painting of the twentieth century. Is housed in 2 buildings: Michael`s Castle (built for the fourth child of Paul I Michael in 1826) and the second building is the Benua, where is housed the collection of the twentieth century. The Russian Museum was opened in 1898 and now comprises 400,000 specimens of Russian art and has no copies. Here you can find works by Rublev, Brul?v, Kiprensky, Repin, Levitsky and so on. You can easy book St. Petersburg tour guides using our web-site.

Working Hours: 10 am to 18pm, Monday to 17pm.
Closed: Friday

St.Petersburg Russia private tours to Yusupov Palace

This palace enters into the top 100 richest and most luxurious in Europe. St.Petersburg Russia private tours let you see a very good example of the life of the Russian nobility of the XVIII-XX. The big house of one of the richest families in Russia of XIX - early XX centuries gives an overview of the spectacular collection of paintings, sculptures and applied art. The palace has witnessed many secrets. One of these - the murder of Grigory Rasputin (the popular favorite of the Romanov family, fatal and mysterious figure in the Russian history.) The exposition dedicated to the death of Rasputin is in a basemant of the palace.

Working hours: from 10:30 am to 16.30pm.
Closed: The first Wednesday of the month.

The Cathedral of St Isaac

The Cathedral is one of the most interesting monuments of the architecture and nineteenth-century Russian art, one of the museums most visited in the city. It is the last building made in the late classical style. It is one of the bigest dome buildings in the world (101.5 m). Due to the size of the dome is the fourth in Europe after the Cathedral of St. Peter (Rome), San Paul (London), and Santa Maria dei Fiori (Florence). The Cathedral was built in 40 years from 1818 to 1858 by the French architect Auguste Monferran. If you booked private shore tours in st. petersburg for cruise passengers we will be glad to show you not only Cathedral but his surrounds as well.

Working hours: 11am to 18pm.
Closed: Wednesday

St. Petersburg tour guides: Our Savior on a Spilled Blood

Another name of this church - Resurrection of Christ, erected in the place where was mortally wounded The Russian Emperor Alexander II. You will know more about Russian history during this St. Petersburg tour guides. The tragic event occurred on March 1, 1881 and gave the temple its second name Our Savior on Spilled Blood. The church was built by order of The Tsar Alexander III on the same place where his father, Alexander II was assassinated. The temple-monument was built in 1883-1907 by Alfred draft Parland and Archimandrite Ignatius (Malyshev). It is notable for its decoration of the interiors and exteriors. The total area reaches 7000 square meters mosaics; walls, columns, windows and ceiling. It is the architectural jewel of St. Petersburg.

Working hours: 11am to 18pm.
Closed: Wednesday

The Fortress of St Peter and St Paul

The St.Petersburg Russia private tours let you visit of the Fortress of St Peter and St Paul which is a good starting point to move to the city and discover its history. It was the first and only structure in the territory of the city, appeared in 1703 to counter the inroads of the Swedish army. It was always the tourist`s attraction to the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, which is the pantheon of the Russian tsars of the Romanov dynasty, from Peter I to the last tsar`s family of Nicholas II. In the nineteenth century one of the 6 bastions of the fort served as a terrible political prison. In 1924 it became a museum.

Working hours: 11am to 18pm.
Closed: Wednesday (high season is not closed)

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan

One of the best architectural monuments of St. Petersburg, The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan was built between 1801 and 1811 by Voron?jin. It got its name because it kept the icon of the Virgin of Kazan which protected the royal family of the Romanovs. During St. Petersburg (Russia) private tours you will know this magnificent classical building with a colonnade of 100 columns and a high relief of biblical themes. The centeral doors are copies of the famous "gates to paradise" by Giberti, Florence. At the end of the Napoleonic War of 1812 it became a monument to Russian military glory. Here is the tomb of Field Marshal Kutuzov, the winner of Napoleon. In the Soviet era it was the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism. Now it is the main Cathedral of St. Petersburg. You can attend services at 10 and 18 hours each day.

Working Hours: 10 am to 20pm

St. Petersburg boat tour guides

One of the most romantic trips proposed by our agency are St. Petersburg boat tour guides! Our city has several nicknames: The Capital of the White Nights, The City of the drawbridges, The North Palmyra and The North Venice. The local people usually say:" St. Petersburg is not The North Venice, but Venice is St. Petersburg in The South! and they are right, St. Petersburg has 70 rivers and canals, and about 50 islands with 400 bridges. The boats are partly covered, partly open for any time of the year with a toilet on board. It is really marvelous trip along the old piers, gardens and spacious parks, palace of the time, you will understand why St. Petersburg is called Venice of the North.

Tsarskoye Sielo (Pushkin)

About 25 km to the south of St. Petersburg there is the town called Tsarskoye Sielo or Pushkin with its famous Catherine Palace. Peterhof and Tsarskoe Sielo were two official summer residences of the dynasty. Founded by Peter I, the building was painted blue color, which became the international icon of luxury and artistic delirium of The Romanov Empire, with the Hermitage. During St. Petersburg (Russia) private tours you will see the museum contains a collection of more than 20,000 pieces of extraordinary value, including furniture, paintings by Russian and European masters, and unique collections of porcelain, amber, armory, bronzes and sculptures. In the palace you can visit the famous Amber room, a gift from King of Prussia to Tsar Peter the Great in 1716.

Working hours: 10am to 18pm.
Closed: Tuesday, last Monday of each month

St. Petersburg tour guides to Peterhof (Petrodvoretz)

Peterhof (German name Peter`s Court) or Petrodvoretz (Soviet name Peter`s Palace) is the official residence of the Romanov with Tsarskoye Sielo. The most beautiful summer imperial residence, founded in honor of Russian victory in the Northern War is a jewel of Russian art, is a city of parks, palaces and fountains. St. Petersburg tour guides show you the Most impressive famous fountain`s work without any electricity, only by gravity. The total number of 150 sources in the area of 114 square hectares. The ensemble is the real creative work of architects and artists Italian, German, French, Russian and Dutch, who obeyed the ideas of Peter I and his dream of Baroque style, opened in 1723.

Working hours: from 10:30 am to 17pm.
Closed: Monday, last Tuesday of each month (Great Palace), gardens are open.

Working hours: 10am to 18pm.
Closed: Tuesday, last Monday of each month

Private shore tours in St. Petersburg for cruise passengers to Pavlovsk

This is another impressive architectural ensemble of castle and park of 600 ha, which is considered to be one of largest in Europe. It is located 27 km from Saint-Petersburg. Catherine II the Great donated this palace to her son as a wedding gift. After marriage, Paul and his wife traveled throughout Europe and bought the best works of art in all places they visited. All elements are now exhibited inside the palace: Italian sculptures, porcelains imperial factory of St. Petersburg and Sevres, carpets of the Savonnerie and Gobelins. It is worth to walk along the building and the magnificent park around and they have an almost romantic melancholic beauty. During private shore tours in St. Petersburg for cruise passengers you will be able to see not only palace but a beautiful garden around it.

Working hours: from 10am to 17pm
Closed: Monday, first Monday of each month