If you come to St Petersburg for Christmas, then the beginning of November is the rightest time to buy the tickets for the ballet and opera performances at the New Year’s Eve, as they‘re sold like hotcakes (especially the Nutcracker). Guides from St Pete Private Tours will show you the exteriors of the main city’s theaters: Mariinsky on the tour by car , Alexandrinsky, and Mikhailovsky on the walk...

In 315 years of its existence, the city has had enough stories to make your blood run cold! Here’re some facts:   The city was built on bones (of its builders) Here you may find the two real Egyptian sphinxes. People, connected to their finding and transportation, and the tsars, who ruled after the sphinxes’ arrival, died in suspicious circumstances (that’s why one shouldn’t touch the sphinxe...

Yet we’d like to thank St Petersburg sky for providing us with a true Indian Summer: this October ranked as the warmest in the whole history of our city (up to +18-20 ° C)! It also proved to those who call it “the city of 50.000 shades of grey” that it’s still possible to find a great variety of natural colors here. If in your future plans there’s a trip to St Petersburg in spring, summer or autum...

101 years ago there happened the October Revolution in Russia. One may like it or not, but it influenced greatly not only the life of the country but the whole world history. It’s important that the places directly related to the revolution are still taken care of in St. Petersburg! One of them is the cruiser Aurora that you may see closer during the driving tour . A shot from this, now legendary,...

St Pete Private Tours has special offers for the travelers, who come to St Petersburg by the sea! We can pick you up at the port and show you around the city by car. So, to get to know the city, you may choose a usual tour by car http://www.tours-stpetersburg.ru/tours/drivingtour or a special 2-day package for the cruise passengers, that includes a walking route, also by car, to get to know St Pet...

Here are Davide and Elisabetta from Verona, guide Katerina, and driver Efrem. Our guests are amazed by the beauty of St. Petersburg and its history; guide and driver just worked for it and happy to see such a result on the tourists’ faces 😊 Can we do this to you? We bet we can! Everything starts with a booking. If you wanna feel relaxed and get deeper into the Russian history, try our tour...

We’ve considered the interests of the clients who had a boat trip with us, so, we’re glad to represent you a new boat with its benefits: Now it’s bigger: there are 30 seats and they are all yours (well, there also will be your private guide and a captain); More stable: even if you get seasick, here you won’t feel bad cause it goes smoothly and no wave will touch you; It contains an open deck and a...

– With these words, said in the circle of Elton John and John Reid (manager) by Ray Cooper (percussionist) the first tour of a western megastar to the USSR began. It was 1979 and getting to Russia was much harder than now. Moreover, the Soviet ideology was very selective about the places where a foreign star could go, as well as about the people who could attend his concert. In total, he gave 8 co...