Full-Day Cultural and Architectural Tour of Saint Petersburg
Highlights
Saint Petersburg
art, architectural, cultural
Group Tour
1 Day
Easy
English
Description
Stroll through the shaded alleys lined with beautiful sculptures of the Summer and Michailovskyi garden in St. Petersburg. See the place where Peter himself planted trees and designed the layout of his future garden, which was to rival Versailles and became the playing ground of future emperors. Find stories connected with the House of the Romanov dynasty and admire the architecture of the Marble Palace.
Itinerary
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Saint Petersburg Day Tour
- Meet your Saint Petersburg tour guide and visit places surrounded by intrigue, mysteries, plots and even murder, as it was too often during Russian history.
- Visit one of the most romantic places in St.Petersburg, St. Michael's Castle, designed by Paul to protect himself from plotters. However, still, he could not escape his destiny and died a tragic death according to all the prophecies that predicted it.
- Examine Church of the Saviour on Blood, a Russian revival-style cathedral built on the same spot where Alexandr II (the Liberator) died during a terrorist bombing.
- Continue to the Marble Palace, made of red granite, which gives a lovely afterglow during the sunset. It was a parting gift from Catherine the Great to one of her lovers, Grigory Orlov, who brought her to power and later maybe even initiated the killing of her deposed husband because he wanted to marry her but couldn't do it while Peter III was still alive.
- Learn the story of Paul I, "Russian Hamlet", Catherin's sociopath son.
- Uncover how Alexandr I became very religious at the end of his life and marched across Europe to liberate it from the menace of Antichrist personified as Napoleon, but failed to carry out reforms that he so enthusiastically started in his own country at the outset of his reign.
- Find out about Alexandr II, son of Nicolas I, who gave freedom to serfs and how his assassination changed the course of Russian history.
What's Included
What's Excluded
Know Before You Go
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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| 1 to 4 | /person |
| Child | |
| 1 to 4 | /person |
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This is a group tour |
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