Catherine Palace (Pushkin) Private Tour

Catherine Palace (Pushkin) Private Tour

Private Tour by Car


During this driving tour, just outside of the city, we visit the legendary Catherine Palace in Pushkin and its Amber Room.

The Park + The Palace + The Amber Room

The Park + The Palace + The Amber Room

Comfortable cars and vans

Comfortable cars and vans

Duration: 14 hours

Duration: 5 hours

Includes pre-booked tickets

Includes pre-booked tickets

Private guide right from your hotel

Private guide right from your hotel

Out of Moscow Experience

Out of the City Experience

Itinerary

Hotel Pick-up

Our guide will come to your hotel (lobby area) or any other indicated address to begin the tour from there. There also will be a driver waiting at your hotel entrance. The tour is done by car/minivan. We use licensed drivers with cars (up to 3 people) or minivans (4 – 7 people).

Catherine Palace

This Masterpiece of the Russian Baroque style was built as the Empress residence. Lately Catherine Palace and its surroundings were used as backdrops for BBC’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Take a chance to feel yourself part of the Russian imperial court!

Amber Room in Catherine Palace

The legendary Amber Room was mystically lost during the World War II. Now it is fully reconstructed and became the main attraction of the Catherine Palace.

Catherine Park in Tsarskoe selo
Tickets are included

Dutch master gardeners arranged the Garden in the 1720s on three terraces in front of the imperial palace initially. Later on, Catherine II extended the territory and decorated the park with other splendid building and fine monuments to show Europe the greatness of her reign.

Private tour to Pavlovsk [optional]

Located on the banks of Slavianka river Pavlovsk Park is a picturesque and highly poetic piece of work of masters of the late 18th -early 19th centuries. Groves and woods, numerous ponds, seventeen pavilions, twelve bridges across Slavianka, exquisite statues create a feeling of harmony.

Pavlovsk Palace

Continue the immersion into Imperial Russia by venturing to Pavlovsk Palace – built by Catherine the Great for her eldest son Paul at the end of the 1780s. Originally constructed by Charles Cameron in austere and elegant classicism style the residence was enlarged and lavishly redecorated by Vicenzo Brenna after Paul I ascended the throne.

Hotel drop-off

At the end of the tour we will take you back to your hotel or any other place you would prefer.

What is included?

  • Personal licensed guide
  • Personal driver
  • Pre-booked tickets
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • All taxes
  • No hidden costs!