8:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
Assemble at Hotel Lobby and meet English speaking Guide.
09:30 : Transfer to Visit Peterhoff Fountain Park or Catharine Palace
Option #1: Visit Peterhoff Park 20.04.2026 – 01.10.2026
After a 22-mile drive through the suburbs of St. Petersburg reach Peterhoff, a former summer residence of the Russian tsars’ in the 18-th - 19-th centuries.
Explore Peterhoff designed to the request of Peter the Great to rival Versailles. 300-acre parks on the shore of the Finish Gulf, spectacular fountains, the Grand Palace, crowning the hill above the fountains and about 20 smaller Palaces and pavilions represent «Russian Versailles» now. Enjoy picturesque Lower Gardens with three unique cascades, dozens of powerful water jets and miniature palaces - Monplaisir, Marly and Hermitage. Take a deep breath looking at the centre of the composition, the Grand Palace and Grand Cascade, including staircases, waterfalls, an avenue of 64 fountains and 37 gilded statues. Take a picture of the symbol of Peterhoff, «Samson killing a lion» fountain, an allegory of the crucial victory of Russians over the Swedish army at Poltava in 1709.
Option #2: Catharine Palace and Park
winter period 01.12.2025 – 15.04.2026; 16.10.2026 – 30.12.2026
summer period 16.04.2026 – 15.10.2026 – surcharge 2500 rub p.p.
The TsarskoyeSelo palace and park ensemble is a superb monument of world-ranking architecture and garden and-park design dating from the 18 to early 20 centuries. TsarskoyeSelo is a cluster of very fine examples of Baroque and Classical architecture and it was also the first place in the Russian capital where interiors
decorated in the Moderne (Art Nouveau) style appeared. Today, as we enter the palace, we can sense the spirit of the times of Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II and admire unique works of fine and applied art.
14:00: Lunch Stop at Restaurant(included)
City tour(3 hours):
- Tour of a city, rightfully described as «Northern Venice» or «Pearl of the Baltic»; - Drive along the «Great Perspective» world famous today as Nevsky Prospect lined with marble palaces of Russian royalty and aristocracy, with most fashionable boutiques and art salons arranged in old settings of the
18th century, trading rows and arcades, with impressive classical and Renaissance cathedrals and churches as its backdrop, enjoy this 4.5 km long thoroughfare cut through woods and marshes from the Admiralty with the city’s symbol (2 ship) on top of its gilded spire to the Monastery of Alexander Nevsky, one of four Russia’s
Lavras with its magnificent Trinity Cathedral and its cemetery where Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky and other world celebrities were buried;
- Singer House, Eliseef Emporium -
Stop over at an excellent picture opportunity with a stunning panorama along the Neva’s embankments, by the city’s Rostral Columns you will have a view of the 5 buildings of the State Hermitage Museum and the fortress of St. Peter and Paul - the cradle of Russia’s new capital, the first public museum of the country - the Chamber of Curiosities, founded by Peter the Great and the 4th world’s largest domed structures
- St. Isaac Cathedral (outside) with «The Bronze Horseman» unveiled in Senate Square; - Rabbit island, Peter & Paul fortress; - Kazan Cathedral (visit)
The main on-service city Cathedral hosts an important orthodox treasure – the icon of Our Lady of Kazan;
- Guided tour to the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood(outside);
- Stop in the Field of Mars with the eternal flame lit in the center of the monument to victims of revolutions and wars, take pictures of the Resurrection Cathedral on the Spilt Blood at its background, one of the most unusual monuments of Russian Orthodox architecture built on the spot where Alexander II was assassinated;
- Drive through the Square of Arts which is a perfect classical ensemble of the city.
20:00 Dinner at restaurant(included)
Back to the hotel and overnight.
Bus from 10:00 till 22:00
Meal
Room + Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner
