Take a look at two of Russia’s most striking cities on a Russia tour come July 1st! Explore the sights of Moscow – Russia’s lively capital, before continuing on to rural Pskov and Pechory for an area banya experience and capping off the adventure in St Petersburg, the jewel in Russia’s imperial crown.
Take an st Petersburg private tours guided walk on this Russia tour around the legendary Red Square and the Kitay-Gorod and Lubyanka area. In Red Square, feast your eyes on the intensely colored, onion-domed St Basil’s Cathedral, the main topic of countless postcards. Along one side runs the elegant façade of the illustrious GUM department store, once the only real selection for shopping in the Communist era. Also in Red Square is Lenin’s Mausoleum.
Journeying to Red Square on your own Russia tour via the underground Metro, you can have a guided tour of the mighty Kremlin. The fortified stronghold built in the 11th century, was home to the campaigns of Ivan the Terrible, Stalin, Lenin, Napoleon and now Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. Inside the grounds, we view the Russian Palaces of Congresses, Senate, and Supreme Soviet buildings and make visits to the Assumption Cathedral, Ivan the Great Bell Tower, Tsar Bell, and Armoury.
Explore St Petersburg on your own Russia Tour. Founded by Peter the Great, grandiose St Petersburg is made around an intrinsic network of canals and rivers. Called the cradle of Revolution, in the 20th century the town underwent three name changes, three revolutions, and a 900-day siege. With an increase of than 90 museums, many that are housed in imperial palaces, plus flamboyant galleries and churches. There are masses to see on the Russia Unplugged tour.
Stroll along Nevsky Prospekt, and go to the Church on Spilled Blood and The Bronze Horseman. No Russia tour is complete with no guided visit of the Hermitage Collection at the Winter Palace. Housing some 2.8 million items of art, with collections including Egyptian mummies to Greek vases and a vast and dazzling variety of Old Master. St Petersburg includes a thriving restaurant, bar and club scene to be enjoyed by night.