4 Days - 3 Nights

Budget program - Tours only

Program

Day 1
Arrival to St. Petersburg
Transfer to your hotel or apartment
Three-hour Panoramic city tour covering all major highlights and a visit to St. Isaac’s Cathedral, world’s fourth largest cathedral, and Peter and Paul’s Fortress, the city’s first building, including the fortress premises and Peter’s Cathedral, a burial place of Russian tzars, from Peter the Great, the founder of the city.

Day 2
Tour to Pushkin (Tsarskoye selo) including a tour if Catherine the Great’s Palace, garden and park ensemble and a visit to the Lyceum, once attended by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
Lunch at a local restaurant
Optional – evening cultural performance (Mariinski Theatre, folk show at Nikolaevski Palace)

Day 3
Tour of Yusupov Palace, the richest of non-imperial palaces, formerly a home of powerful Yusupov family, known as the place of mysterious assassination of notorious Grigory Rasputin.
Tour of the Hermitage museum which ranks among the world's major museums. Its collection consists of nearly three million art objects. Exhibits are displayed in the Winter Palace, as well as the Small, Old and New Hermitages. Concerts and ballet performances are given in the former Hermitage Theater. The Hermitage collection has six departments: Western European art, the Ancient world, primitive culture, Oriental culture and art, history of Russian culture, as well as numismatics.

Day 4
Transfer to the airport or train terminal
Departure from St. Petersburg