Catherine’s Palace and the Park – 5 hours.

Pushkin Park – 4 hours - We meet at your hotel or where are you staying and go to Pushkin by car (about 1 hour). On the way you have the opportunity to see the Russian countryside. In Pushkin we will have a walk around the park. We return to the city the same way and finish you tour 4 hours later near your hotel or in the center of the city where it suits you.

Pushkin Town (Tsarskoye Selo) is another marvelous place not far from St. Petersburg. After visiting Peterhof you should definitely start out to the Pushkin palace which was an Imperial Residence some centuries ago. The history of this place is various and interesting. Begin from Museum Pushkin! Turn on your imagination and try to plunge into that epoch. You’ll get extremely great impressions!

The palace in Tsarskoye Selo with its sparkling golden magnificence appears before one’s eyes as a fairy-tale chamber or a magic dream. This masterpiece of Baroque architecture with its exquisite luxury of fanciful forms, created by the Italian Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli amidst Russian fields and forests, brings to one’s mind a gem of rare beauty set in an elegant mount. It is difficult to believe that once there had been the ungainly Saarskaya farmstead on this site presented by Peter to his consort Catherine and later inherited by their daughter Elizabeth. On coming to the throne, Elizabeth transformed her family’s manor house into one of the most graceful palaces of Russia. The brilliant imperial residence grew even more majestic under its next owner, Catherine the Great.

The Catherine Palace at Pushkin (Catherine's Palace) (Russia), with its luxurious facade stretching for more than 300 meters, was the largest edifice in the period dominated by the Russian Baroque. Its inside decor-gilded moldings, marble columns, Saxonian porcelain, velvet and damask- produces no less overwhelming impression than its glistening golden facades. The Main Staircase and the luxurious private apartments of the palace were embellished with golden carving, mirrors and amber. The grand enfilade of state rooms receded into a shining distance and an immense number of vases, columns and pieces of sculpture lend the palace an extremely majestic air. The pride of Rastrelli was the Great Hall and, as it was then called, the Large Gallery, the grandest in area of all created interiors, 850 square meters, a miracle of the great architect’s mastery and precise calculation. But especially amazing was a number of two-tiered windows, a very expensive embellishment unusual for Russian, too-one should never forget about saving warmth in the cold climate. Breaking with the Russian custom, Rastrelli designed huge windows with mirrors in gilded frames on the piers. Candles lit in front of them and repeatedly reflected in the mirrors, created an illusion of an endless glistening space. Foreign guests were lost in admiration at the sight of this shining magnificence.

The unique Amber Room, the walls of which were adorned with panels of various kinds of amber, struck guests most. Academician Alexander. Fersman, a connoisseur of gems and semiprecious stones, called this room the "eighth miracle of the world".