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I invite you to walk around St Petersburg! I would like to acquaint you with its architecture, to present you to his house and tell them a funny or tragic story. After all, even living in the city, we often do not notice it...I want you to be interested in a new look at St Petersburg.
Highlights:
- The Admiralty and The Bronze Horseman;
- Kazan and St. Isaac's Cathedrals;
- The main attractions located on Nevsky Prospekt and the Central streets of the city.
Price: 500 RUB per a person
Duration: 3-4 hours
Type of excursion: walking
The tour is conducted only in Russian
Description:
This tour is good for you, if you want to get acquainted with the main attractions of St Petersburg. You need to withstand 3-4 hours of walking.
We will see:
• The Admiralty: I will tell the story of the fortress-shipyard and glacis, turned into a place of rest and festivities. I'll introduce you to the bronze camel;
• The Bronze Horseman: we will remember the history of transportation of Thunderstone;
• St Isaac's Cathedral: we will discuss the history of the change of the four cathedrals, the remarkable technological solutions in the construction process, and see Montferrand holding the layout of the Cathedral;
• The Green Bridge: let's talk about the colored bridges Moika, look at the buildings around the bridge — their history is also remarkable;
• Peterkirche: let's mention the churches of Christian denominations located on the Nevsky and the main religions in St Petersburg;
• Kazan Cathedral: we will talk about the history of Kazan Cathedral, also we will remember Voronikhin park and Kazan bridge;
• House of Books (Zinger House): we will dive into the era of modernity and new methods of trade;
• Gostiny Dvor: we will pay attention to the functional features of architecture — then it will be interesting, walking through the cities, to guess why each house was built;
• Small Sadovaya street: we will remember the story of a family of merchants Eliseev, and also communicate with cats Elisey and Vasilisa;
• Manezhnaya Square: let's face the Italian architects of St Petersburg, remember Nadia Rusheva and the history of elephants in our city;
• Mikhailovsky Сastle: let's see how Peter I really looked and immerse ourselves in the octagonal space of the courtyard with the monument of a very ambiguous ruler of Russia;
• Chizhik-Pyzhik: let's remember Yuri Nikulin and find out why the hero of the children's song was called so;
•Mars field: let's go through the names of this place in memory at different times and imagine how it looked;
• Suvorov square, where intertwined names of Paul I, Alexander Suvorov, and C. Rossi;
• Palace embankment: let me remind you of several palaces (Marble, Novo-Mikhailovsky, Vladimir), at the same time look at the other side of the Neva – there is a lot to see;
We will get to Atlantis, take a look at Palace square and see the Winter Palace, the Alexander column, the Arch of the General staff and the Admiralty again.