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• Peter and Paul Fortress
• Savior on the Blood
• Summer garden and Palace
• Kazan Cathedral
• Cruiser Aurora
• Dostoevskiy Tour
• Peterhof
• Tsarskoe Selo and Pavlovsk
• City Tour

Peter and Paul Fortress

The Peter and Paul Fortress was founded by Peter I in 1703 to protect the city.
During the period from 1717 to 1918 it was used as a political prison. On the grounds of the fortress one can visit the Peter and Paul Cathedral of the early XVII century with the burial vault of Peter the Great and other Russian tsars, the museum in Trubetskoy bastion prison, expositions: "The History of St. Petersburg", "The History of the Imperial Mint", "Pechatnya" (Printing Workshop), museum on cosmonautics and missilery; excursion route "Panorama of the Neva" - over the roofs of the fortress' bastions and curtains.

Nowadays Peter and Paul Fortress is the famous place for organazing different celebrations devoted to the city.

The Peter and Paul Fortress is open daily, except Wednesdays and the last Tuesday of each month, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Excursion's duration - 2.5 hours.

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Savior on the Blood

The Church of Christ Resurrection (The Savior on the Blood) was put up to commemorate the tsar-martyr on the site where on March 1, 1881, Grinevitsky, a member of the People's Will society, mortally wounded Emperor Alexander II.

The church was put up with the money collected all over Russia. Architecturally it revives the traditions of the 17th-century Russian church-building. The church stands out for its complicated and picturesque outline, as well as rich and multicolored decoration.

The facades are faced with glazed shaped brick and ceramic tiles as well as decorated with mosaic panels. In the decor of interiors Italian marbles and Russian semiprecious stones are used. The church is interesting as a kind of an architectural accent in classical surroundings.
Moreover, the interior is unique, boasting of the mosaic panels made in Frolovs' workshop to the originals by outstandmg Russian artists, including V. Vasnetsov, M. Nesterov, A. Riabushkin and others. This is the largest mosaic ensemble existing on the church facades and interior walls.

The Savior on the Blood is open since 11:00 a.m till 5:30 p.m.

Excursion's duration - 2 hours.

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Summer garden and Palace

The Summer Garden and Summer Palace of Peter the Great is the famous place for getting a rest and have a walk any time a year.
Behind the beautiful wrought iron fence there is an old park that witnessed the most spectacular moments of St Petersburg's early history.

Impressed by the royal parks that he had seen in Europe, Peter the Great was very keen to have such a park in his new and beloved "paradise" - St Petersburg. In Peter's new park everything was done according to the latest fashion: all trees and bushes were trimmed in the most elaborate way, all the alleys were decorated with marble statues and fountains.

Peter the Great commissioned the first architect of the city - Domenico Trezzini - to build a small palace in the park. The palace had no heating and was intended for summer time. That's why it was called a Summer Palace, and the park became known as a Summer Garden.
This place is famous for one of the first stone buildings in Petersburg, it was made into a museum and contains material of an historical, memorial and artistic nature.

Summer Garden and Palace is open daily except Tuesdays and the last Monday of every month, from 11:00 a.m to 5:30 p.m.

Excursion's duration - 2 hours.

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Kazan Cathedral

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan encircles a small square with a double row of beautiful columns - an impressive colonnade.
The architect Andrei Voronikhin, who built this church in 1801-1811, was greatly inspired by Basilica of St Peter's in Rome.

 Kazan Cathedral was meant to be a Russian version of St Peter's and the main church of Russia. After the War of 1812 the church became a monument to the Russian victory. The famous Russian field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov was buried inside the church.

The cathedral was named after a "miracle-making" icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which the church housed till the early 1930s. The Bolsheviks closed the cathedral for services in 1929, and from 1932 it housed the collections of the Museum of History of Religion and Atheism, which displayed numerous pieces of religious art. In 1999 regular services were resumed in the cathedral, though it still shares the premises with the museum.

Excursion's duration - 1 hour

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• Peter and Paul Fortress
• Savior on the Blood
• Summer garden and Palace
• Kazan Cathedral
• Cruiser Aurora
• Dostoevskiy Tour
• Peterhof
• Tsarskoe Selo and Pavlovsk
• City Tour

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