Palace Square, Alexander column


The Winter Palace

Day 1
    I offer You to spend the first part of the day in the State Hermitage Museum - the second largest (after Louvre in France) museum in the world. Visiting the State Rooms of the Imperial residence, departments of West European painting (such masterpieces as works by Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Gainsborough, Rembrandt, and much more) and get acquainted with one of the best collections of masterpieces by impressionists, post-impressionists, Matisse and Picasso
    After the Hermitage You will make a general sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg, visiting the most famous historic sights such as Palace Square, Decemberist (Senate) Square, the famous Bronze Horseman (this monument to Peter the Great has become one of the most widely known symbols of St. Petersburg), St. Isaac's Square (visiting St. Isaac's Cathedral - the largest in Russia, able to accept 12000 people and climbing the colonnade of St. Isaac's - to get the bird's eye view of the city), the Admiralty, the outstanding architectural ensemble of the Spit of Vassilievsky Island, going to Petrograd side - another island of the city, visiting Peter and Paul Fortress (the very first construction of the city, Petersburg's birthplace, the exposition of the museum includes Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral the burial vault of the Imperial Family - the Romanovs, the very first church of St. Petersburg and a number of expositions devoted to St. Petersburg history and everyday life, among them the political prison, that used to be located in the Fortress), the Field of Mars, Michalovsky Castle, Michailovsky Palace, Square of Fine Arts, the famous Nevsky Prospect (the main street of the city) and many other outstanding architectural and historic sights.