INTERTIMES

SIGHTSEEING TOURS

TOUR SERVICE

INDIVIDUAL EXCURSION  RATES 2001

Rates are NET in USD per person

Rates include entrance fee, guide service, transportation of 1-2 persons ( western type car ),

 3-9 persons with 6-9 seater MINIBUS

DESCRIPTION of INTERTIMES SIGHTSEEING TOURS

We are pleased to offer you private tours with your own family or friends, the convenience of sightseeing at your own pace, and the flexibility of a selecting a tour with your own interests in mind. Having your own personal English-speaking guide along with a driver makes all of this possible. Tour price includes entrance fee, guide service, transportation. Here enclosed brief description of tours. Individual and excursion price list enclosed. Other optional tours available on request.

City sightseeing

The greatest of Russian Czars, the Peter the Great, literally willed the city into being. Cut by the flowing Neva River and crisscrossed with canals, St.Petersburg is the supreme monument to the Russian people–the sovereigns who ordered it, the artisans and workers who built it, and millions who died for it in the World War II. As you tour the incomparable “ Empress of the Baltic “, you will be dazzled by beauty at every turn. Your spirit will be moved by the fantasy, boldness and poetry of the Russian soul. And though much has changed since the cessation of the Soviet Union, the majesty of Peter’s “Window to the West “ will enchant you for years to come.

Peter & Paul Fortress

Birthsite of St.Petersburg and formidable bastion along the Neva river, founded by Peter the Great in 1703. St.Peter & Paul Cathedral was the burial place of the Russian Tsars. It is now the museum dealing mostly with the History of St.Petersburg.

St.Isaac’s Cathedral

St.Isaac’s Cathedral–St.Petersburg largest church and one of the world’s largest domed structures able to accommodate about 7000 audience. The vast interior is decorated with gilded stucco, mosaics, paintings, sculptures and bas-reliefs.

The State Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage ranks among the best and famous art museums in the world displaying masterpieces by hundreds of artists. The grandiose Winter Palace, the former residence of the Russian czsars, and four adjacent buildings house one of the finest art collections in the world consisting of more than three million paintings and art objects.

Russian Museum

The largest museum of the Russian Art, opened in 1898. It is housed in the former Mikhailovsky Palace and contains works by the great Russian artists numbering nearly 400.000 exhibits, from ancient icons to the Avant-garde painting of the XX century.

Yusupov Palace

You get a special look at Russia’s mysterious past when you visit opulent Yusupov Palace, where Rasputin, the “ Mad Monk” or the “ Holy Man“, was murdered in 1916. The palace, now included into the most interesting sights of St.Petersburg, represents a rare combination of an architectural monument and a “ temple of art “

Pushkin ( Tsarskoye Selo )- Palaces & Parks

Tsarskoye Selo, a former country residence of the Russian emperors, is a facinating monument of the world’s architectural and gardening arts of the XVIII –XIX centuries. The compositional center of the Tsarskoselsky ensemble is the Catherine’s Palace, containing exquisite decorative objects, furniture, Russian and West-European paintings, unique collections of porcelain, amber, arms, decorative bronze, sculptures etc.

Pavlovsk–Palaces and parks

Pavlovsk is a superb palace-and -park ensemble of the late XVIII-XIX centuries, which was used as a summer residence of the Russian emperor Paul I and his family. The collection of the Palace contains a large number of antique sculptures from Italy, as well as gifts from European royal courts. The landscape park, one of the largest in Europe, covers the area of 600 ha.

Peterhof Palace

Peterhof is 30 km to the West of St.Petersburg, formely known as Petrodvorets. A Baroque spectacle of incomparable beauty, the palace of Peter the Great, , was built to rival Versaille and boasts beautiful fountains and gardens. The complex also includes the “ Monplaisir” and “ Marly” Palaces and the Hermitage Pavillion.

River Cruise ( May-October )

A cruise along the city’s canals and waterways shows us St.Petersburg from an unusual vantagepoint. The river boat will take you up the Neva river to view the oldest part of the city, the Academy of Fine Arts, Menshikov Palace, the Hermitage with magnificent Winter Palace, Rostral Columns, Peter & Paul Fortress and the Summer Garden, the oldest park in the city laid out in1704 on the order of Peter I.