Secrets of Vasilievsky Island

Vasilievsky Island is the most famous of the St. Petersburg islands. It’s really a city with its own history.

We will start the walk with the arrow, one of the best viewing sites in St. Petersburg. Neva opposite the Exchange is the main square of St. Petersburg. Yes, it is, not the Palace Square. I'll prove it on the tour.

But the arrow is not just a square in front of the Exchange. This is the Kunstkamera, the Academy of Sciences, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the building of the Twelve Collegiums. And even a monument to Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.

Here, even some windows with their shape give reason to talk about famous architects and their customers.

I'll definitely show you the haunted house. Not even one. Not without the house of the apothecary Pel, in the yard of which there is a tower of griffins.

As we begin the tour with a story about the name of Vasilievsky Island, and finish it at the monument, which this story perfectly illustrates.

See you for a walk in St. Petersburg!

• Accompanying a professional local historian.
• Visit to St. Andrew's Cathedral.