Merchant Petersburg with a walk along Nevsky Prospect and a visit to the Eliseev Palace

Among the eminent and worthy citizens of St. Petersburg, the least known is that part of its inhabitants, which ensured the economic prosperity of the city - merchants, industrialists, bankers. Merchants and industrialists were called the "Third Estate", they together with the nobility and peasantry formed the basis of the Russian state.

And they also took part in the creation of the main highway of the city - Nevsky Prospekt, with the trade history of which you will get acquainted on this tour.

• You will learn what the largest trading houses settled on Nevsky, what distinguished the 1st merchants. The 2nd and 3rd Guilds, you will find out where it is easy, “without a purse”, Nicholas I visited, you will find out where St. Petersburg fashionistas bought the most expensive jewelry, you will see the narrowest merchant house on Nevsky Prospekt.

• During the tour you will get acquainted with the history of the formation of the most iconic family for St. Petersburg - merchants Eliseev. People from the peasant milieu. The Eliseevs were not only successful traders, but also large bankers, generous benefactors, patrons, patrons and connoisseurs of the arts. You will see the house where the family lived, banks established by representatives of this family.

• As part of our walking tour, you will visit the first in St. Petersburg supermarket - the Elyseevo store, where buying something meant buying something of very high quality, not only before the revolution, but also in Soviet times, when the building worked "Gastronom No. 1".

• The main decoration of your acquaintance with the history of the Elissaev family will be a visit to the Eliseev Palace, located at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the embankment of the Moika River. The halls of the palace, preserved and recreated, can rightly be compared with the interiors of the halls of the imperial palaces, because they are decorated with painted plafonds, stucco, tapestries, paintings, stained glass windows, ancient furniture and many other interior details. Today: in the former private ownership is the most luxurious hotel in St. Petersburg - "Talion Imperial Hotel".

Excursion service and the cost of visiting the Eliseev Palace, subject to the composition of a group of 1-4 people. Provided that in a group of 5 or more people - a surcharge of 500 rubles / person.