Multifaceted Petersburg, 5 days

Walking quest around the Hay Square according to the quotes of the novel Crime and Punishment. The first topographically accurate work of world literature called the researchers F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel, included in the school curriculum. Every team. Rodion Raskolnikov’s route from the house in Carpentry Lane to the old woman’s house - interest-bearers. Each team will have a map on which to put the addresses, finding them in A kilometer radius from Sennaya Square according to precisely selected quotes. participants to indicate the addresses of Sonia Marmeladova, an old woman-interest-bearer, Rodion Raskolnikov, Razumikhin, Luzhin, places of meetings and acquaintance of the protagonist with Mr. Marmeladov, Lizaveta, and make sure that there is a strange connection between the routes of the writer and the young man who has become He is the hero of the passionate preaching of love to all mankind.

Summer: The Unique Peterhof Petrodvorets is a world-famous palace and park ensemble for its fountains.

The idea of creating a country royal residence, which would not be inferior to Versailles in France, arose with Peter I in 1714. The general concept of planning parks and palaces of Peterhof belongs to the emperor.

The pace of construction of the country residence of Peter the Great was striking: already in 1723, the grand opening of Peterhof took place. By the opening, the layout of the Lower Park was created, the Sea Canal was dug, the palaces of Monplaisir and Marly were built, part of the fountains operated. The seaside residence of Emperor Peter delighted Europe no less than the new capital, St. Petersburg.

It is not by chance that Peter chose this area for the construction of fountains: several reservoirs were found here, fed by springs from the ground. These are the sources used for fountains today. During the summer of 1721, locks and a canal were built, through which water from the reservoirs from the Ropshinsky heights flowed by gravity to the accumulative pools of the Upper Garden, small fountains were arranged here. Another thing is the Lower Park, stretched at the foot of the terrace. Water from a 16-meter height through pipes from the basins of the Upper Garden on the principle of communicating vessels with force rushes down to soar with many high jets in the fountains of the Lower Park of Peterhof.

The rest of the year: The Royal Village The State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo" is a monument of world architecture and landscape art of the XVIII - early XX century. A whole series of reigns, starting with Catherine I and ending with Nicholas II, left its imprint in Tsarskoe Selo, traces of its existence. The compositional center of the monument is the Catherine Palace - a magnificent structure in the style of Russian Baroque: admire the luxury of decoration of the Grand Hall of the Palace and the "Golden Enfillade" of the state halls, among which is the world-famous reviving Amber Room. Lunch. Return to the hotel

After lunch we are happy to offer you our exclusive program. Participants of the tour will have the opportunity to look at Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin not as a president, but as a son, student, athlete and Leningrader. After all, he grew up in this city, went to avenues and was known as a “hooligan” in St. Petersburg yards.

The tour will begin with the maternity hospital, where the future president was born. Then the tour participants will visit the courtyard of the house in which Putin lived as a child, the school, the temple in which young Vladimir was baptized, the place of the first date with the Kaliningrad flight attendant Lyudmila and other memorable places associated with the life of Vladimir Vladimirovich in St. Petersburg.