Sightseeing tour on a comfortable car with a professional local historian

There are places in St. Petersburg where to walk for a long time, how to get by public transport is unclear. To get to the cruiser "Aurora", Smolny Cathedral is easiest by car. And if you drive a connoisseur of the history of the city, then you will get a fascinating sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg by car.

The tour will start immediately from your hotel. We'll head towards the city centre. First of all - to St. Isaac's Square. Here I will introduce you to St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the Admiralty and the Bronze Horseman. The monument to Nicholas I, the Mariinsky Palace will not escape us. During the walk, I will talk about the political and cultural reasons for the appearance of the monument to Peter I. I will dispel a few myths about St. Petersburg sights. I will show the relationship between the events that took place several centuries ago and modern realities.

Next, we will head to the pier opposite the Academy of Arts. Here we are waiting for the oldest monuments in St. Petersburg, which are already 3000 years older than the city! These are the true ancient Egyptian sphinxes. There is a reason to talk about St. Petersburg bridges.

From the window of the car you will see such attractions as Menshikov Palace, the building of the Twelve Collegiums, the Kunstkamera, the arrow of Vasilievsky Island with the Exchange and Rostral columns. We will drive past the Peter and Paul Fortress, Trinity Square. We will make a circle of honor around the house of Peter I. After all, most likely, there is a residential building that is older than St. Petersburg itself. Let us remember our contemporaries who lived (or lived) in the Noble Nest.

The next stop with a photo exit is the cruiser Aurora. From here through the Trinity Bridge we go to Millionnaya Street to the famous Atlanteans and Palace Square. Further past the Savior-on-Blood to the Engineering Castle, and then to the masterpiece of the Elizabethan Baroque Smolny Monastery and the famous "Smolny" - the place of work of the head of the city.

We can complement the sightseeing tour by visiting the Peter and Paul Fortress. A tour of the citadel with a visit to the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul will take another hour. You will see the Hare Island, where St. Petersburg was founded in 1703. And in the cathedral, close to view the burial places of all Russian emperors from Peter I to Nicholas II.

We can continue our acquaintance with St. Petersburg in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. I will introduce you to an architectural ensemble that has been created for half a century. On the monastery island there are traces of both Peter’s Baroque and Catherine’s classicism. In the Holy Trinity Cathedral are the relics of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky. In the Annunciation Church buried A. V. Suvorov. Here you can visit the Necropolis of the XVIII and XIX centuries, see the graves of Lomonosov, Dostoevsky, Witte, Speransky, Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Zhukovsky and many other famous personalities.

And I propose to finish the sightseeing tour with tea, lunch or dinner in the mansion of the general from infantry A. I. Glukhovsky. It has a restaurant now. Alexander Ivanovich was so active, volatile and even adventurous that you can write an adventure novel about him. In St. Petersburg there are only a couple of people (including me) who know in detail the fate of this man, the history of his former country cottage.

If you extend the trip to St. Petersburg up to 8 hours, including time for lunch, then we will have time to carefully get acquainted with Nevsky Prospekt (Kazan Cathedral, Gostiny Dvor) and its surroundings. We will visit the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and the Peter and Paul Fortress. Of course, we will relax in one of the cozy St. Petersburg restaurants.

At the end of the tour, I will take you to your hotel or wherever you want to go.

And if you want to change the route, then I will gladly compile for you an individual program of acquaintance with St. Petersburg.

• Accompanying a professional guide.
• Transfer by comfortable car.