The Highlights of Saint Petersburg- City Tour with private guide and driver-

The Highlights of Saint Petersburg- City Tour with private guide and driver-

Dear Guests ! You are welcome to choose the sights from my list of Saint Petersburg attractions that can be included into the city tour with various duration.
I always offer customized private tours, so the tour duration is flexible as well as the list of sights.
The city tour includes driver service and the size of car depends on the size of group which can be from 2 to 6 people.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, Griboyedova Kanala Emb., 2B/A, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia

A unique cathedral with 7,000 square meters of mosaics and tons of dramatic Russian history behind it

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Nevsky Prospekt, Nevsky Avenue, St. Petersburg 191025 Russia

The main historical avenue of Saint Peterburg has a lot of sights and attractions situated in it or near it

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Architect Rossi Street (Ulitsa Zodchego Rossi), Ulitsa Zodchego Rossi, St. Petersburg 191023 Russia

The shortest street, with special proportions of a ball-room. Near it - many very special attractions: the oldest food-hall in the most opulent Art-Nouveau style, Vaganova Ballet School, Catherine park and Catherine monument, Alexandrinsky Theater, etc...

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Eliseyev Emporium, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 191023

Located at 56, Nevsky Prospekt, it is one of the most striking examples of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau architecture, although at the time of its construction the building was considered controversial. Built in 1902, it still preserves the original 7 departments, including 33 meters of display counters of loose produce and exquisite delicacies varying from modern French patisserie, bakery, cheese, charcuterie, smoked salmon, caviar wines & spirits and tea & coffee. The largest display is dedicated to confectionery and home-made patisserie including classic macaroons. To complement the fresh food displays, 12 mobile etageres hold over 3,000 varieties of exclusive products. Each department is beautifully decorated with gilded stucco ceilings and glitzy chandeliers and many of the original features and equipment used in its golden era! Our guests can enjoy a cup of coffee or tea with some exquisite bakery.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Memorial Sign Strelka Of Vasilievskiy Island, Birzhevaya Square, St. Petersburg 199034 Russia

The Memorial Sign is interesting as it shows the most eastern edge of Vasilievskiy Island, but the main attraction there is certainly one of the best panoramic views that open from that point. You can see The Hermitage building, St.Peter and St. Paul Fortress, The Admiralty, the draw bridges and many more attractions.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Peter and Paul Fortress, Petropavlovskaya Fortress, 3, St. Petersburg 197022 Russia

On the territory of the Fortress there is a cathedral where Russian Emperors are buried. Besides, there are so many other attractions there: historical museums, the Prison-museum, cannons that give a blank shot every day at noon...

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: The State Museum St. Isaac’s Cathedral, St Isaac_s Square, 4 Nevskiy Prospekt metro station, St. Petersburg 190000 Russia

One of the most beautiful cathedrals of the world with a rich historical background

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Bronze Horseman, Monument To Peter I, Dekabristov Square, St. Petersburg Russia

One of the symbols of Saint Petersburg. It is a monument to the founder of the city - Peter the Great, created in 1782 by French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Summer Garden, Dvortsovaya Emb., 2D, St. Petersburg 191028 Russia

It is open for visiting from May to October. It is the oldest and one of the most beautiful gardens situated in the very center of Saint Petersburg

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Ploshchad Iskusstv, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia

One of the most central Squares of Saint Petersburg, with a monument to A.S. Pushkin in the center, the State Russian Art Museum and some other very famous attraction near it

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: State Russian Museum, Inzhenernaya St., 4 Metro: Gostiny Dvor, Nevskiy Prospekt, St. Petersburg 191011 Russia

The State Russian Museum is the world’s largest collection of Russian art, housed in a unique architectural complex in the historical centre of St Petersburg. The museum collection contains over 400 000 exhibits covering all major periods and trends in the history of Russian art, all main types and genres, trends and schools of Russian art over more than a thousand years: from the X to the XXI century.

The main retrospective exhibition of the museum is located in Mikhailovsky Palace (architect Carlo Rossi, 1819-1825), built for the son of Emperor Pavel I, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, and in the Benois Wing, originally designed as an exhibition pavilion for the Academy of Arts (architects L.N. Benois and I.S. Ovsyannikov, 1914-1919).

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Peter I House, Petrovskaya Emb., 6 metro Gorkovskaya, St. Petersburg 197046 Russia

The cabin of Peter the Great (Russian: Domik Petra I or Domik Petra Pervogo or Domik Petra Velikogo) is a small wooden house which was the first St Petersburg "palace" of Tsar Peter the Great.

The log cabin was constructed in three days in May 1703,[a] by soldiers of the Semyonovskiy Regiment.[1] At that time, the new St. Petersburg was described as "a heap of villages linked together, like some plantation in the West Indies".[2] The date of its construction is now considered to mark the foundation of the city.

The design is a combination of an izba, a traditional Russian countryside house typical of the 17th century, and the Tsar's beloved Dutch Baroque, later to evolve into the Petrine Baroque. Peter built similar domiki elsewhere in Russia - for example, in Voronezh, and Vologda. The wooden cabin in St. Petersburg covers only 60 square metres (650 sq ft)[3] and contains three rooms - living room, bedroom, and study. It has large ornate windows and a high hipped roof of wooden tiles.[4][b] Inside, the wooden walls were painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms came to be known as the "red chambers" (krasnyie khoromtsy).[5][c] There are no fires or chimneys, as it was intended to be used only in the warmer summer months. It was occupied by the Tsar between 1703 and 1708,[5] while Peter supervised the construction of the new imperial city and the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Smolny Cathedral, Rastrelli Sq., 1, St. Petersburg 191124 Russia

Smolny Convent or Smolny Convent of the Resurrection (Voskresensky), located on Ploschad Rastrelli, on the bank of the River Neva in Saint Petersburg, Russia, consists of a cathedral (sobor) and a complex of buildings surrounding it, originally intended for a convent. The convent's main church (catholicon or sobor), a blue-and-white building, is considered to be one of the architectural masterpieces of the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who also redesigned the Winter Palace, and created the Grand Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), the Grand Palace in Peterhof and many other major St. Petersburg landmarks.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, Obukhovskoi Oborony Ave., 151, St. Petersburg 192171 Russia

Its collection consists of more than 30,000 items including porcelain, glass, drawings, photographs and rare publications. The exhibition shows the stages of development of the first national porcelain factory, founded in 1744 as Imperial Porcelain Factory, and the history of Russian porcelain.

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

Stop At: Cruiser Aurora, Petrovskaya / Petrogradskaya Emb. Gorkovskaya Metro, St. Petersburg 197046 Russia

Aurora is a 1900 Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg. Aurora was one of three Pallada-class cruisers, built in Saint Petersburg for service in the Pacific. All three ships of this class served during the Russo-Japanese War. Aurora survived the Battle of Tsushima and was interned under US protection in the Philippines, and eventually returned to the Baltic Fleet.

The second ship, Pallada, was sunk by the Japanese at Port Arthur in 1904. The third ship, Diana, was interned in Saigon after the Battle of the Yellow Sea. One of the first incidents of the October Revolution in Russia took place on the cruiser Aurora, which reportedly fired the first shot, signalling the beginning of the attack on the Winter Palace.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: St. Nicholas Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Nikolskaya sq., 1/3, St. Petersburg 190125 Russia

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral is a major Baroque Orthodox cathedral in the western part of Central Saint Petersburg. It has always been closely associated with the Russian Navy, serving as its main shrine until the Russian Revolution.
In the upper church there are numerous memorial plaques for the crews of the sunken Soviet submarines. The crew of the submarine K-141 Kursk has also been commemorated there.

The marine regimental church was built on the bank of the Kryukov Canal in 1753–1762 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, the main architect of the Russian Navy, in place of an earlier wooden church. A freestanding four story bell tower with a tall gilded spire was erected in 1755–1758. The main church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas (a patron saint of seamen) and the feast of the Epiphany.

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral consists of two separate churches. The lower Saint Nicholas Church is located on the first floor, while the upper Epiphany Church is on the second floor. The altar of the upper church was consecrated in the presence of Catherine the Great. The main shrine of the cathedral—a Greek icon of St. Nicholas made in the 17th century with a portion of his relics—is located in the lower church.

Duration: 30 minutes