Other themes

·         Foreigners in Petersburg

·         Musical Petersburg (Shalapin’s museum)

·         Theatrical Petersburg

·         Eroticism of Petersburg

·         Gallant Petersburg

·         Nikolay Roerich in Petersburg (Izvara)

·         Parks and gardens of Petersburg

·         Islands

·         Swedish, Finnish, German and English Petersburg

·         Finnish Petersburg:  The Finnish history of the Neva region had begun long before Petersburg emerged. During the excursion, you will know about the Finnish derivation of many toponyms, you will see many a place where the Finnish villages situated. We will show you where the area of Finns settlement was situated in Petersburg; you’ll visit the Finnish Church. You’ll know about activities of Mannerheim and other famous Finns.  You can also visit ethnographic museum in Jalkala farmstead.

·         Novgorod Velikiy (Kremlin, monasteries, museum of wooden architecture)

·         Vyborg (Castle)

·         Staraya Ladoga
Excursion to the first Russian capital, visit to the Fortress and Novaya Ladoga

·         Kronstadt

·         Schlisselburg (Fortress)

·         Fortresses of North-West (Koporye, Yam-Gorod, Ivan-Gorod)

·         Priozersk (Fortress)

·         Peter’s Ship grove

·         Alexander Pushkin in Petersburg

·         Alexander Pushkin at Tsarskoye Selo

·         Salons of Pushkin’s Petersburg

·         Pushkin’s places of the Leningrad Region

·         Mikhail Lermontov in Petersburg

·         Nikolay Gogol in Petersburg

·         Petersburg of Fyodor Dostoevsky (memorial flat)

·         Leo Tolstoi in Peterburg

·         Anna Akhmatova in Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad (memorial flat)

·         The silver century of Petersburgian literature

·         Literary places of Karelsky Neck (Blok, Akhmatova, Zoschenko, Gorkiy, Mayakovsky)

·         Two destinies(Akhmatova and Zoschenko)

·         Women of Romanticism epoch

·         Petersburg of Peter the Great

·         Epoch of coup d’etats

·         Brilliant century of Catherine the Great

·         Emperor Paul (Michae l Castle)

·         Last days of the Romanov’s House (Peter and Paul Fortress, Alexander Palace)

·         Decembrists

·         Merchants Eliseev

·         Duels and duelists

·         Grand dukes palaces and its inhabitants

·         The Romanovs in Saint-Petersburg: You will get acquainted with the palaces and mansions connected with bright pages of the dynasty’s history: the Winter Palace (the State Hermitage), the Michael’s castle, Kseshiskaya’s mansios. It’s possible to visit Peter&Paul Cathedral (burial places of Russian tsars).

  Orthodox objects of worship of Saint-Petersburg

·         Orthodox temples of Saint-Petersburg

·         Christmas, Easter and other Orthodox feasts

·         City of all religions (Christian cathedrals, synagogue, mosque, Buddhist temple)

·         Forgotten temples of Saint-Petersburg

·         Golden century of Petersburgian architecture (baroque, classicism)

·         Petrine (early) Baroque

·         High Baroque

·         Classicism

·         Early Classicism

·         Late Classicism (Empire)

·         Silver century of Petersburgian architecture

·         Motifs of Russian old times

·         Petersburgian Art Nouveau

·         Eastern motifs

·         Egyptian motifs

·         Romanesque and Gothic motifs

·         Architecture of the Nevsky prospect

·         Bridges and embankments

·         Petersburg and Antiquity

·         Pushkin Hills (Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye, Sviatogorsky Monastery)

·         Pskov (Kremlin)- Pechory (Monastery)- Izborsk (fortress)

·         Tikhvin (via Staraya Ladoga)