Private Tour Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk tour

Private Tour Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk tour

Stop At: Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Preserve.
you will have a Catherine Palace tour, admire its interiors and hear an interesting story about the events in Russian history, connected with Tsarskoye Selo and St. Petersburg. In this program you will visit the famous Amber Room, which was renewed by the modern restorers and is represented to the public in all its beauty.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Russian Restauran "Podvorye"
Opened in 1993, the Podvorye ( «Coach House» ) restaurant has since become known as «Russia´s most authentic Russian restaurant». In addition to having its own regular clientele, it has established a reputation in Saint Petersburg and far beyond.
Duration: 1,5 hours
Stop At:Pavlovsk State Museum. Excursion you will admire an undoubted masterpiece of the landscape art - the picturesque spaces of Pavlovsk Park and visit amazing example of Russian classicism style - Pavlovsk Palace.
Duration: 2 hours

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Stop At: Catherine Palace and Park, Sadovaya St., 7 Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin, St. Petersburg 196601 Russia

Tsarskoye Selo palace and park ensemble — a brilliant monument of world architecture and landscape art XVIII — early XX century. A whole group of architects, sculptors, painters embodied the desires of their royal customers. In Tsarskoe Selo concentrated best samples baroque and classical architecture; it is here were first in the Russian capital interiors, decorated in Art Nouveau style.
The Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg was the summer residence of the Russian tsars. The palace is a part of a marvelous ensemble of palaces and parks. It was almost totally destroyed during The Second World War. Now the palace is impressive post WWII reconstruction. The Catherine palace nowadays contains exclusive decorative objects, furniture, Russian and West-European paintings, unique collection of porcelain, amber, weapons, decorative bronze, sculptures, etc.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Pavlovsk State Museum, Sadovaya St 20, Pavlovsk, St. Petersburg 196621 Russia

Pavlovsk is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south from St. Petersburg proper and about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) southeast from Pushkin.

The town developed around the Pavlovsk Palace, a major residence of the Russian imperial family. Between 1918 and 1944, its official name was Slutsk, after the revolutionary Vera Slutskaya, and then was changed back to Pavlovsk. Pavlovsk is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.Pavlovsk Palace. Formation of the collections of the Pavlovsk Palace is associated with the travel of the owners of Pavlovsk across Europe in 1781-1782. Visiting the workshops of famous masters, they bought and ordered paintings, sculpture, furniture, bronze products, silk fabrics, porcelain sets. The royal people presented them with various gifts that went into the decoration of the halls of the palace. The museum is famous for its unique collections of fine and decorative art. A special place is occupied by a collection of ancient art: Roman marble sculpture, bronze plastics and glass (1st century AD — 3rd century AD).

Duration: 2 hours