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1 : The very best of St. Petersburg - 5 days2 : Mix of sights and present day reality - 7 days
3 : A day with Tchaikovsky - 1 day
4 : A day with Dostoyevsky - 1 day
5 : The Communist regime - its ideas and the reality - 1 day
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Activities
Cultural tour guideDriver-guide
Speaking languages
English Activity started in
2000
Car
YESAir conditioned : YES
Baby seat : NO
Interests centers
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Diploma, references, agreements
Licensed by all the major museums in the city. (Each museum issues it's own seperate license, which is generally renewed on an annual or bi-annual basis after passing an examination.) Services
Tailor-made tours, Car, Family / Children, Disabled, Culture, Excursion / trekking
Contact
Contact - Get a quoteWeb site : www.russianadventure.com
Address : Basseynaya 53 190000 St. Petersburg RUSSIA (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Phone : +7 911 164 6424
Tours
Duration : 5 days
Level :
Medium
Level :
Medium
This program is ideal for guests who are mostly interested in the golden age of St. Petersburg i.e. mid 18th to mid 19th centuries. Elegant palaces, lavishly decorated cathedrals and a ballet performance will make you forget about the 20th century and enjoy the Age of Elegance.
You can have any dates or quantity of days for your trip.
The programs here are just examples of what can be done - I will create a tour just for you.
1st day
Hermitage: Winter palace - interiors and history, plus highlights of the Hermitage art collection
Lunch
Peter and Paul fortress
St. Isaac cathedral
Brass Horseman
2nd day
Sunday service at the local church
Tsarskoye selo (Pushkin): gardens, Catherine palace (amber room)
Late lunch at the best restaurant of Russian cuisine ''Podvorje''
open-air monument dedicated to the Second world war
tour around the most impressive metro stations of the Soviet period
3rd day
Russian museum
The Church on the Spilled Blood
Lunch at traditional Russian pies café <Stolle>
Yusupov palace
Ballet at one of St.Petersburg theaters
4th day
Peter the Great's palace in the Summer Garden
Boat trip around St. Petersburg's rivers and canals
Lunch
Nevsky prospect walking tour (visit to the cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan included)
Alexander Nevsky monastery
5th day
Petrodvorets (Peterhof): Cottage palace & fountain park (possibly visiting other museums in the complex - we can make a decision about this at the last minute)
Folk-show ''Feel yourself Russian'' at Nicolaevsky palace
You can have any dates or quantity of days for your trip.
The programs here are just examples of what can be done - I will create a tour just for you.
1st day
Hermitage: Winter palace - interiors and history, plus highlights of the Hermitage art collection
Lunch
Peter and Paul fortress
St. Isaac cathedral
Brass Horseman
2nd day
Sunday service at the local church
Tsarskoye selo (Pushkin): gardens, Catherine palace (amber room)
Late lunch at the best restaurant of Russian cuisine ''Podvorje''
open-air monument dedicated to the Second world war
tour around the most impressive metro stations of the Soviet period
3rd day
Russian museum
The Church on the Spilled Blood
Lunch at traditional Russian pies café <Stolle>
Yusupov palace
Ballet at one of St.Petersburg theaters
4th day
Peter the Great's palace in the Summer Garden
Boat trip around St. Petersburg's rivers and canals
Lunch
Nevsky prospect walking tour (visit to the cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan included)
Alexander Nevsky monastery
5th day
Petrodvorets (Peterhof): Cottage palace & fountain park (possibly visiting other museums in the complex - we can make a decision about this at the last minute)
Folk-show ''Feel yourself Russian'' at Nicolaevsky palace
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours, Car, Family / Children, Disabled, Culture
Tailor-made tours, Car, Family / Children, Disabled, Culture
Duration : 7 days
Level : Medium
Level :
Medium
This program is full of contrasts. It suits travellers interested not only in famous royal palaces but also in the history of the 20th century as well as in the local lifestyle. Add to the standard sites some local colour - wash yourself in a banya (Russian national steam bath house), visit a local food market and spend an evening at the local beer bar. Try to feel Russian!
You can have any dates or quantity of days for your trip.
The program here is just an example of what can we can do. I will create a tour just for you.
Day 1
Tsarskoye selo (Pushkin) royal residence and walk in its endless gardens.
Supper at the best restaurant of Russian kitchen ''Podvorje''.
Day 2
The Church on the Spilled Blood
Peter the Great palace in the Summer garden
Lunch break at the tiny local bistro styled as a Russian country house
Peter and Paul fortress & Romanov tombs
In the evening
Supper at the colorful local beer pub with show program and dancing
Opening of the bridges over Neva in the center of the city
Day 3
Second world war museum and sculptural monument
Petrodvorets (Peterhof)
In the evening
Common Russian bowling looks like night club.
Mariinsky (Kirov) theater restaurant.
Day 4
St. Isaac cathedral
Shopping
Traditional Russian bath house (banya).
Day 5
Visit to the local food market
Political history museumC
ruiser Aurora
Supper at a georgian restaurant.
Day 6
Novgorod
By contrast with St. Petersburg Novgorod is relatively small mediaeval town. Its ancient Russian architecture (16th century): numerous churches and cathedrals and old fortress in combination with peaceful and quiet streets make you feel far away from stressful 21st century. We walk in open-air museum of wooden architecture, wooden houses of Russian villages dating back to the 12th century. One day in the world of traditional Russia.
Day 7
Hermitage.
You can have any dates or quantity of days for your trip.
The program here is just an example of what can we can do. I will create a tour just for you.
Day 1
Tsarskoye selo (Pushkin) royal residence and walk in its endless gardens.
Supper at the best restaurant of Russian kitchen ''Podvorje''.
Day 2
The Church on the Spilled Blood
Peter the Great palace in the Summer garden
Lunch break at the tiny local bistro styled as a Russian country house
Peter and Paul fortress & Romanov tombs
In the evening
Supper at the colorful local beer pub with show program and dancing
Opening of the bridges over Neva in the center of the city
Day 3
Second world war museum and sculptural monument
Petrodvorets (Peterhof)
In the evening
Common Russian bowling looks like night club.
Mariinsky (Kirov) theater restaurant.
Day 4
St. Isaac cathedral
Shopping
Traditional Russian bath house (banya).
Day 5
Visit to the local food market
Political history museumC
ruiser Aurora
Supper at a georgian restaurant.
Day 6
Novgorod
By contrast with St. Petersburg Novgorod is relatively small mediaeval town. Its ancient Russian architecture (16th century): numerous churches and cathedrals and old fortress in combination with peaceful and quiet streets make you feel far away from stressful 21st century. We walk in open-air museum of wooden architecture, wooden houses of Russian villages dating back to the 12th century. One day in the world of traditional Russia.
Day 7
Hermitage.
Activities, services on this tour:
Tailor-made tours, Car, Culture
Tailor-made tours, Car, Culture
Duration : 1 day
Level :
Easy
Level :
Easy
Tchaikovsky composed of some of the world's most wonderful ballet music, including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty and Onegin, and of course of the bombastic 1812 Overture.
He first came to St.Petersburg when he was 10 years old and studied here for 9 years at the prestigious Imperial School of Jurisprudence and nearly three years at St. Petersburg Conservatory. He filled his life here with music and kept returning back to this city. The first public performance of any of his works took place in August 1865, when Johann Strauss the Younger conducted Tchaikovsky’s Characteristic Dances at a concert in Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg.
Tchaikovsky died in Saint Petersburg on November 6, 1893, nine days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathetique. Though only 53 years old, he lived a long life compared to many Russian 19th century composers. He is buried in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery St.Petersburg, near the graves of fellow-composers
For those who admire Tchaikovsky St.Petersburg presents a great chance to turn over the pages of his biography visiting places connected with him.
He first came to St.Petersburg when he was 10 years old and studied here for 9 years at the prestigious Imperial School of Jurisprudence and nearly three years at St. Petersburg Conservatory. He filled his life here with music and kept returning back to this city. The first public performance of any of his works took place in August 1865, when Johann Strauss the Younger conducted Tchaikovsky’s Characteristic Dances at a concert in Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg.
Tchaikovsky died in Saint Petersburg on November 6, 1893, nine days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, the Pathetique. Though only 53 years old, he lived a long life compared to many Russian 19th century composers. He is buried in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery St.Petersburg, near the graves of fellow-composers
For those who admire Tchaikovsky St.Petersburg presents a great chance to turn over the pages of his biography visiting places connected with him.
Activities, services on this tour:
Culture
Culture
Duration : 1 day
Level : Easy
Level :
Easy
A Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.
Born in Moscow Dostoyevsky moved to St Petersburg to attend a military academy when he was aged 16. Overall Dostoyevsky lived in St.Petersburg for 28 years before his death in 1881. He grave is in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg.
He never had his own apartment: he moved 20 times, never living in one place longer than 3 years. We will visit both places described in his novels, such as ''Crime and Punishment'' - and those connected with him personally. The relationship between a man and his city environment was one of the Dostoyevsky trump themes - so walking along his routes we will try to perceive St.Petersburg the way he saw it.
Born in Moscow Dostoyevsky moved to St Petersburg to attend a military academy when he was aged 16. Overall Dostoyevsky lived in St.Petersburg for 28 years before his death in 1881. He grave is in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg.
He never had his own apartment: he moved 20 times, never living in one place longer than 3 years. We will visit both places described in his novels, such as ''Crime and Punishment'' - and those connected with him personally. The relationship between a man and his city environment was one of the Dostoyevsky trump themes - so walking along his routes we will try to perceive St.Petersburg the way he saw it.
Activities, services on this tour:
Culture
Culture
Duration : 1 day
Level : Easy
Level :
Easy
Communist USSR was perceived as the main danger for a long period of time, but how was such a society created? What were its first leaders like? What made soviet people different from the rest of the world? What did they put their trust in? Why did they supported a regime which the rest of the world considered terrifying?
I suggest looking at the communist regime from the Russian point of view: visiting the places connected with revolution, speaking about the ideas which inspired Russian people to create a society of a new type - their dreams and how they turned out in reality.
I suggest looking at the communist regime from the Russian point of view: visiting the places connected with revolution, speaking about the ideas which inspired Russian people to create a society of a new type - their dreams and how they turned out in reality.
Activities, services on this tour:
Culture
Culture
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The very best of St. Petersburg Mix of sights and present day reality A day with Tchaikovsky A day with Dostoyevsky The Communist regime - its ideas and the reality
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Review
David FOY - CANADA 
2011-08-08 17:38 - 
2011-08-08 17:38 - 
We asked Tatiana to spend two days with us and get us oriented at the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, and St. Petersburg in general. We got much, much more. Her background is as a cultural historian, primarily but not entirely art history, and she opened our eyes to her remarkable city and country in ways we could not have expected.She kept us moving but was always mindful of the pace, and the oc...
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