Hidden St Petersburg Evening Walking Tour

Meet your guide at Vosstania Square metro station and start your small-group tour of hidden St Petersburg. Your guide will take you beyond the tourist haunts to uncover some of city’s secrets and surprises.

Start by taking a look at the ornate subway station. Discover the metro’s last surviving image of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin along with the huge station doors that hide a secret nuclear shelter.

Continue to a pub festooned with Soviet air force memorabilia, including ejection seats and the fin of a Sukhoi SU-27 fighter jet. Sip some delicious local honey beer, and then move on to a building where Soviet nuclear submarines, sometimes nicknamed ‘Red Octobers’ were designed.

See a monument to the submarines, and walk to a former home of Grigori Rasputin, the mysterious peasant-monk whose influence on Tsar Nicholas II’s family a trigger for the 1917 Russian Revolution.

View an apartment once occupied by Vladimir Lenin, and venture through dimly lit archways into the city’s ‘well yards’: narrow alleyways hidden behind the street-front houses.

Follow the passageways toward the Baltiysky railway station, and after admiring its art nouveau exterior, visit park that takes it theme from The Wizard of Oz. See its bizarre Emerald City playground, as well its artworks depicting the story’s characters.

Your tour finishes at the Vladimirskaya metro station. View the station’s memorial to Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky before leaving your guide.