Tour Highlights
What Is Included
Skip the line and enter a treasure trove of world-renowned art and cultural artifacts on this 3-hour tour of the Hermitage State Museum. Your guide will show you around, pointing out items of interest, and share facts about its collection.
Next stop the Russian state Museum. The State Russian Museum, formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world’s largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares.
1st stop the Hermitage Museum.
Hermitage and Palace Square
Head to the Hermitage passing the Palace Square where some of the most notable events in Russian history took place including the October Revolution of 1917.
The Hermitage entrance tickets will allow you to access the Old Hermitage, New Hermitage and Small Hermitage as you explore the second largest museum in the world.
Find out who was the original architect of the staircase and why the stairs were named in honor of the “Jordan River” in Israel.
Enjoy the Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek sculptures, jewelry and decorative art of the antique period.
Find out what was this rooms purpose during the era of the Tsars and what two major battles of the Russian history are depicted in the paintings in this room.
Imagine yourself surrounded by Russian nobility on a grandiose imperial balls organized by Catherine the Great.
Find out how a room in the Windsor Castle in England became the prototype for the creation of this Military Gallery.
Learn about Giacomo Quarenghi who designed this hall and was one of the most influential architects of Saint Petersburg.
Find out why the “Pavilion Hall” was sometimes called the “favourites room” and was connected directly with Elizabeth the Great’s sleeping Chambers.
Russia’s pictorial heritage dates back to the Byzantine schools of icon painting in the early middle ages, but only achieved true worldwide prominence at the turn of the 20th century, before largely fading back into international obscurity as the Soviet Union matured. The State Russian Museum can offer masterpieces from every period in the development of Russian art, but the weight of its collection comes from the 19th century, when Russian artists began to move away from slavish imitation of Western European fashions and create their own visual idioms, heavily influenced by and intertwined with the grand changes in Russian politics and society of the era.
It was a process that resulted in the extraordinary flowering of artistic talent in the first decades of the 20th century that produced artists of the caliber of Kandinsky, Chagall, and Malevich, amongst many others whose works are on display here. Your guide will take you through this extraordinary story and on into the art of the Soviet period, for which the Russian Museum works hard to a representative and engaging balance between the works of official artists and the artistic underground that flourished, especially in St. Petersburg/Leningrad, in the last decades of Soviet power.
Your guided tour will give insights into the often difficult lives of the artists, the major historical events depicted in many of the works, the history of the Russian Museum itself, and much more.
There is a min of two persons on this private tour
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The museum is open what ever the weather.
The tour meeting point will be clearly indicated on your tour voucher in addition a map will be mailed to you with your voucher with the exact meeting point.
