Big City Style Tour: Moscow and St. Petersburg

Check-in at the hotel after 14:00.

We also offer an evening sightseeing tour of Moscow (3 hours). An evening tour of Moscow accompanied by a professional guide in a limousine with champagne is one of the most unusual. During the tour you will visit the observation and panoramic platforms of Moscow. In the evening, Moscow is immersed in a sea of light and lights. Shop windows are glowing, restaurants and nightclubs are calling "for a light", objects that are not the most remarkable during the day are transformed in the rays of illumination. Life in the city continues, Moscow becomes spectacular and mysterious. Walking along Tverskoy Boulevard in the light of night lanterns, it seems that everything looked like this in the century before last, the bright advertising in the center reminds that Moscow is almost abroad, somewhere the light gives the illusion of absolute unreality of what is happening. On the tour you will see St. Basil's Cathedral, admire the view of the Kremlin from the Sofia Embankment, the panorama of Moscow from the Sparrow Hills, visit the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Novodevichy Monastery, Poklonnaya Hill, Novy Arbat, Tverskoy Boulevard, Theater Square.

Transfer to the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel, meeting with the guide in the hotel’s lobby.

The day will start with an excursion to the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / The Moscow House of Photography Museum is the first Russian museum dedicated to photography, contemporary art and new media. In the collection of MAMM there are more than 80 thousand units of original prints and negatives. The museum's funds have no chronological and thematic restrictions. All photographic techniques are widely represented: from the earliest - daguerreotypes (50s of the XIX century), ferrotypes, ambrotires - to the latest, using digital technologies. The museum's collection includes works by classics of Russian photography (Alexander Rodchenko, Karl and Viktor Bulla, Arkady Shaikhet, Evgeny Khaldei, Dmitry Baltermants) and contemporary Russian photographers and artists: AES+F, Igor Mukhin, Sergey Bratkov, Evgeny Mironov, Dmitry Venkov, Evgeny Antufyev and many others.

Then we will have a walking tour of the center of Moscow, you will see the most unusual buildings in this part of the city, such as the Kekusheva mansion, apartment buildings on Ostozhenka, the Zachatievsky Monastery, Filatov's House (“the House under the Glass”) and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, during the whole walk the guide will tell you about each object both entertaining and mystical stories.

At the end of the way we are waiting for one of the most luxurious hotels in Moscow - the five-star hotel Ritz Carlton. We go up to the roof to take a break, drink coffee, try the signature canapes and admire the gorgeous views. After the Ritz, TSUM is waiting for us – the most fashionable store in Moscow, where a local stylist will conduct a tour for you, who will tell you about the history of fashion, brands and brands that are represented in it. After an exciting excursion, a long-awaited shopping awaits you, and TSUM stylists will help you create an individual style and a unique image.

In addition, in the evening, it is possible to can organize a performance-a trip to the five-star hotel "National". The performance-excursion "The Lost Ones" is a unique experience combining the study of the interiors of the best five-star hotels in Moscow with theatrical stories saturated with details. Thanks to the archives and old-timers of the hotels, a script has been created from the most interesting stories. The performances were staged by the actors of the best theaters of the capital and even the ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater. You will be welcome guests who will be greeted with a glass of sparkling wine, will be taken to places that are not shown to anyone else, will tell the most interesting stories in the format of a theatrical performance.

After the performance, you can visit the luxurious “Beluga” restaurant on the second floor of the National Hotel, which has just received a Michelin star.

Breakfast at the hotel, meeting with the guide.

An unusual excursion "Seven legendary skyscrapers of the capital, or the Secrets of the Seven Stalinist sisters". The history of the construction of one of the symbols of Moscow, what unique construction methods were used for the first time in the world in the construction of Moscow skyscrapers, who built them and who lived in them, what secrets are still hidden by the "giant sisters" - this will be the story on our most interesting excursion. During the tour, you will also be told about the Hermitage, the first French restaurant in Russia, where the famous Lucien Olivier worked and the most famous New Year's salad of the country was invented, about the "black" district and about the "red light street" that leads to the house of Emilia Khutsieva. And then you will visit the “Tsvetnoy Market” - a modern 6-storey shopping complex with branded clothing, cosmetics, decor and restaurants, where a stylist with recommendations and time for new purchases is waiting for us.

The tour ends with the last of the skyscrapers - "Hotel "Ukraine": you will visit the observation deck and over a cocktail you will learn its history.

Then the guide will take you for a cruise on the boat-restaurant "Radisson". The route runs from the berth "Hotel "Ukraine" to the Novospassky Monastery and back. While traveling along the Moskva River, you will see the Government House of the Russian Federation, Moscow City Hall, Kievsky Railway Station, Novodevichy Monastery, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow State University, the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, the Gorky Park (the park of Culture and Recreation named after Maxim Gorky), the Central House of Artists, the monument to Peter I, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the "House on the Embankment", the Kremlin, St. Basil 's Cathedral, the high-rise on the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, the Novospassky Monastery and a number of other attractions in Moscow. There is a restaurant on board where you can taste the most delicious dishes. Duration: ~2.5 hours (approximately).

Return to the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel, check out from the hotel.

Transfer to the Leningradsky railway station.

High-speed train "Sapsan" Moscow - St. Petersburg in the morning.

Meeting with a guide at the Moscow railway station.

Additionally, lovers of Asian cuisine are offered to have lunch at the Chinese cafe "Tiger Lily".

Then you will have a sightseeing tour of the Northern capital. During the tour you will see the central part of the city with its cathedrals, buildings decorated with amazing stucco, sculptural angels and lions, wonderful parks and embankments. You will see Nevsky Prospekt, the sculptural complex of the Anichkov Bridge, the inimitably bright architecture of the Savior on Spilled Blood, the Field of Mars, the monument sung in verse, the Bronze Horseman, the ensemble of St. Isaac's Square, Palace Square, the Arrow of Vasilievsky Island and other architectural monuments.

We will visit the Brodsky Museum and the most branded shopping center of the city – DLT, where for an additional fee we can provide the services of a stylist to create a fashionable image.

Transfer to the hotel.

Additionally, in the evening we offer to visit the “Cococouture” restaurant, where an exciting gastronomic journey of 9 or 15 changes awaits you. An elegant game with visualizations and an intricate plot, subtle combinations and complex techniques, and a complete immersion in Russian history.

Transfer to the hotel for accommodation.

Breakfast at the hotel, meeting with the guide.

On this day we will see the most unusual places of St. Petersburg. St. Anne's Church, or “Annenkirche”, is a unique Lutheran church founded in 1704. The Yusupov Palace is one of the rare noble mansions of St. Petersburg, where not only the state apartments, the halls of the art gallery, the miniature home theater have survived, but also the luxurious living quarters of the Yusupov family, which have preserved the warmth and charm of the previous owners. Amazing artistic interiors, revived by the work and talent of St. Petersburg restorers, are hospitably open to Russian and foreign lovers of history, art, music and theater.

Next, we are waiting for “New Holland” – a small man-made island in St. Petersburg, which has long been hosted by the military. But in just a few years, this place, located away from the loud "guidebook" attractions, has been transformed. Now there is a cozy park in New Holland, kiosks with trendy fast food from famous St. Petersburg restaurants, antique-styled temporary wooden pavilions, parks, ice rinks, fashion galleries.

During the tour, you can choose one of the trendy restaurants on the island for lunch.

In the afternoon, we are waiting for the fashion center – shopping mall "Esders and Scheifals", where there will be great opportunities for shopping.

Return to the hotel.

Additionally, in the evening we offer an immersive show "The Returned". The first real immersive show in St. Petersburg. A theatrical project with the effect of full immersion in a mansion on the Palace Embankment invites you to plunge into a realistic show based on Ibsen's play "Ghosts". In St. Petersburg, the premiere took place in October 2019 and 3 months later "The Returned" became the winners of the KudaGo award in the nomination "Theater: Performance of the Year". The theater on the Palace Embankment is a four-storey mansion of the XVIII century in the very center of the cultural capital, 50 unique equipped rooms, 18 characters of the show and three hours of deep immersion in the world of people and passions.

Breakfast at the hotel.

A visit to the Erarta Museum of Modern Art is one of the most interesting museums in St. Petersburg, recommended for visiting by the cult guide Lonely Planet and National Geographic magazine.

Transfer to the train station or airport.