Visit St.Petersburg

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, travelers and guests of Russia, my friends and friends of my friends!

I’m happy to represent myself and my best friends – professional guides in Saint-Petersburg and surroundings!

I’m Svetlana Ulyanova, a professional English-speaking licensed guide in Saint-Petersburg, Russia!

My friends and me is the team of people who have enormous love for the city and speak different languages! All of us are licensed and have all the necessary permissions!

Bogoslovka manor complex with beautiful Pokrovskaya churсh is just in 40 minutes from the very center of Saint-Petersburg. It is closer than Peterhof with its gold and fountains, and closer than Pushkin with Amber room and gold. Here you can refresh your feelings and find rest for your soul - it is nature and wood and old Russia you can see and feel there. It is reconstruction of old russian wooden buildings. The main attraction - reconstruction of Pokrovskay church which was built in 1708 and designed by Peter the Great and which became the prototype for famous church in Kizhi Pogost in Karelia. The original Pokrovskaya church was located in modern Vologodskaya region and burnt in 1963.

Today is Saint-Valentine’s day. Now we started to celebrate it for fun, the restaurants are busy on this day, but is it just for fun but it is not Russian but a catholic tradition to celebrate this day. We also make special Day of Love city tours (me too). Russian day of Love takes place on the on the 8^th of July, the memory day of Saint Prince Peter and his wife Fevronia, they are patrons Saint of family and marriage according to Russian orthodox tradition and called the day of Family, Love and Fidelity. And you can see the difference it is not just love but Family and Fidelity.The symbol is not the heart but the flower of chamomile.

The love and life story of Peter and Fevronia inspires me. This is a strange story and as soon as the people are Saint it is difficult to comment. Please, judge for yourself.

Saint-Petersburg is a really strange and interesting city!

It was artificially founded by our tsar Peter the 1^st in the year 1703, against the nature and notwithstanding the regular floods on the swamp as everybody knows. At the same time we know that there already were some villages and fortress where especially strong and crazy people lived.