White Nights, Black Days, Golden Autumn, or “When do we go to St. Petersburg?”

 

There is no clear answer to the question, since we are all different and often expect different things from the places visited. I will try to give some information for thought. After thinking about it, you can give yourself an answer to the question of when it is better to go to St. Petersburg.

 

I'm going to start with the high season, the white nights, the summer. (White nights are between mid-May and late July.) But in August their light is still present and the days are very long and the nights are short.

 

Needless to say, Petersburg is good on white nights. A walk in the evening or night city at this time is best described by the word "poetic". Of great interest to tourists are brewing bridges, besides very successfully illuminated at night. Ride along the Neva on a heat sink - how it refreshes, and how the expanse of the river pleases the eye! It is a great pleasure to walk through the parks of the imperial residences, and Peterhof is already good only with one magnificent park, the luxury of its cascades and fountains dwarfing, perhaps, many gilded palaces.

 

So we're going in the summer? Yeah. But...

 

Are you feeling well in the crowd? Then you are not afraid of crowded, or even many hours of queues. museum. From large queues are sometimes not spared and those who visit them as part of the groups that organized them. travel agencies St. Petersburg according to pre-ordered "outfits". In the halls of museums, one group sits on another, there is an incessant hum, as in a hive with bees, at the exhibits you can not stand as freely and for as long as you want. Leaving the museum, the visitor feels primarily physical relief. Hard work being a tourist!

 

However, I know that there are people who expect more from visiting museums than just a general acquaintance with their riches, who want to delve into the depths of the meaning of artistic works and into the details of the painstaking work of masters. They need to consider the exhibits for a long time and without hindrance, reflect and slowly absorb the beauty of art. Excursions in the summer, alas, this opportunity will not give. But in winter...

 

Yes, winter days in St. Petersburg are short, the weather is often not pleasant, you will not see beautiful parks in all its splendor and you will not ride a boat. But in any palace you will feel like the emperor himself, slowly walking around his possessions. Enter the palace without queue. In the halls of the museum, you will sit on a bench in front of your favorite painting and look at it arbitrarily long, and no backs will shield it from you. In the Hermitage, you can fully feel yourself Catherine II, who admitted in letters that “only I and mice admire him, even volumes (dogs) rarely go there.”

 

I would like to stress once again that the best time for a thorough acquaintance with the museums of St. Petersburg and for getting real pleasure from this acquaintance is winter and deep autumn, which is called “off-season”. Well, you can pass the evening in water parks, the largest of them is Waterville, in the Oceanarium, not to mention theaters and concerts. Come to St. Petersburg in winter, researchers of museum wealth, fans of all kinds of muses, connoisseurs of crafts, lovers of history.

 

Finally, a compromise option combining the advantages of summer and winter visits to St. Petersburg is a golden autumn. September-October in St. Petersburg is a time when there are still quite long days, the weather can be no worse than summer. Hotels in St. Petersburg There are a lot of free rooms at this time. Fountains in the fountain capital - Peterhof, you can still ride along the Neva by boat and see the brewing bridges. The parks of imperial residences are experiencing their best time of the year: when they were created, gardeners specially selected trees by how the color of the foliage changes in the autumn to create the most picturesque parkscapes. But the flow of tourists at this time fell sharply, the queues disappeared, crowds in museums evaporated. Everywhere you feel like the person for whom all this beauty was created. This is a time of pure enjoyment of St. Petersburg, not overshadowed by any costs of the big tourist season.

 

Using my tip, I hope you can now answer the question of when you should go to St. Petersburg.

 

 

Author: Ermakova Elena Alexandrovna