Monument to Catherine II (Pamyatnik Ekaterina II) Tours and Activities

Discover the highlights of St. Petersburg efficiently and comfortably on a 5-hour sightseeing tour. Beginning with port pickup, included transportation takes your group to each stop on the itinerary. Groups larger than six enjoy complimentary headsets, so you don’t miss a word of your guide’s immersive commentary. Your well-rounded experience ends with a cruise along the canal, which allows you to photograph the city from a unique vantage point.

Explore St Petersburg on foot on a 3-hour private tour, and view the city’s historical highpoints. Stroll with your knowledgeable guide around the sites, hear intriguing anecdotes about the city beloved by greats such as Pushkin and Dostoyevsky; and stop at sights including the Cathedral of the Savior of Spilled Blood and more. Learn about St Petersburg’s founding by Peter the Great and time as Russia’s capital; stroll along the Nevsky Prospekt; and gaze in awe at magnificent Palace Square, the heart of the city and home to the Winter Palace.

Experience the best of St Petersburg, dubbed the ‘Paris of the East,’ on a private 4-hour city tour. Traveling by private vehicle with an informed guide, pause for photos of landmarks including the spectacular Winter Palace and St Isaac’s Cathedral. Chart the city’s tsarist past as you see highlights such as the Bronze Horseman and Peter and Paul Fortress, and stroll along Nevsky Prospekt, the monument-lined main street, planned by Peter the Great. Your itinerary is flexible, so feel free to ask your guide to tailor it around your interests.

All St. Petersburg highlights within 1 day only can be Cheap & Easy! The tour is excellent for travellers who feel all right about much walking, want to see a lot, experience local life and save their budget. So much to see for so little to pay! All the museums in the tour are prebooked. We skip the line and save your time to enter the museums. For our cruise ship customers we offer the tour as visa-free. For the whole duration of the tour you’ll be hosted by a local expert, licensed tour guide, fluently speaking English. Why is it so cheap? The reason is that most of the tours include the whole day transport, but here we limited it to the transfers instead - the tours includes the transfer by public transport or taxi to and back from the downtown. The rest will be by metro (subway) or walking. Please, mind that the tour includes a bit of walking and you have to be prepared and have a necessary kit: comfortable shoes, wind jacket, sunglasses and umbrellas or raincoats.

Discover St. Petersburg with a local guide. You will see the most famous landmarks of St. Petersburg and have walks such famous panoramic venues as Palace Square, St. Isaac’s Square, Spit of Vassilievsky Island. Besides historic facts, you’ll learn about the local habits, traditions and patterns of conduct. Recommendations on the best places to eat and cozy local coffee-shops will be a bonus.

During the excursion you will see Nevsky Prospekt, Russian Admiralty, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, Palace Square, the Spit of Vasilievsky Island, Peter and Paul’s Fortress, Savior on the Spilled Blood, Field of Mars, Winter Palace. Explore the magnificent collection of the Hermitage museum with our professional guide. At the end of the tour you will enjoy riding along the wonderful rivers and canals of St. Petersburg.

Visit the impressive St. Isaac's Cathedral - formerly main and largest Russian Orthodox cathedral. During the Tour of St. Petersburg we show you the most significant sights in the city center close up, giving you some of the historical background and the stories that lie behind the facades of this most fascinating city from the comfort of a car or mini van and with a knowledgeable guide. • Guaranteed skip-the-line entrance

"Catherine II, the Great Sovereign,"sovereign man"- these were the names of the woman who was able to use the best from the results of each of her private, local successes, showing a rare ability to step over any constraining circumstances and moral prohibitions. With the name of Catherine II there are rumors about conspiracies and the tragic death of two Russian emperors. Let's try to touch the soul of the one that the Senate awarded the official title of “Mother of the Fatherland”. Over the course of Catherine's lengthy reign, Petersburg conclusively attained the status of a great European capital. During the tour we will see a monument to Catherine, Anichkov Palace, Assignment Bank, Naryshkin House on St. Isaac's Square, Bobrinsky Palace, Academy of Arts, Peter and Paul Fortress, Marble Palace, Saltykov’s House, Betsky’s House, Mikhailovsky Castle, Tauride Palace, Smolny, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Neva Embankments, the lattice of the Summer Garden, the Hermitage building.

This private visa free shore excursion is truly unique. While covering all the must-sees of St Petersburg, it, at the same time, gives you a very special and very personal angle to look at our city from.If you want to know how a German princess that had no more rights for Russian throne than you do ended up as the world famous Russian Tsarina and ruled the country for over 30 years, this tour is definitely for you.Let’s find out more about the story of her life together, visit the places she used to come to, discuss political plots, love affairs of the 18th century and just enjoy yourselves for 2 days as Catherine The Great always enjoyed her life.