РусскийExcursion to Peterhof
Dear friends, we offer you to go on a bus and walking tour: “The Seaside Residences of Peter the Great: Strelna and Peterhof”, which will take place no the next day after TFR – Monday 26th of August!
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Peterhof is the “capital of fountains”, one of the finest creations of Peter the Great’s genius. Today it is a grandiose complex, including dozens of landscape ensembles and museums extended along the Gulf of Finland.
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We invite you to take a 5-hour tour of the former imperial residences which were restored after the Great Patriotic War and the Siege of Leningrad and are being carefully preserved.
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The tour will include the gardens and parks created at the beginning of the 18th century on the coast of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea.
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YOU WILL FIND OUT:
Why this place attracted Peter the Great that much and why it was these places where “Russian Versailles” was born.
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YOU WILL SEE:
The Baltic Sea, imperial palaces, gardens, parks, monuments to Peter the Great of the 19th and 21st centuries, and even a sculpture made according to the drawing of the Tsar as well as the residence of the President of Russia and the highest skyscraper in Europe – the headquarters of Gazprom corporation.
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WE WILL TALK ABOUT
Practical benefits of gardens and fountains, habits of the Tsar and his sense of humour.
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WE WILL ENJOY
The fountains and flowers.
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WE WILL ADMIRE
The statue “Samson Tearing Apart the Jaws of the Lion”.
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YOU WILL FEEL
as important guests who have arrived on a visit to the Russian Tsar.
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There is an excursion fee. For all questions, please write to the e-mail: svetlana.nosova@perevodural.ru or tfrconference@gmail.com