Faberge Walking Tour
Start time: 12:00
Duration: 2,5 hours
Group size: max 5 PAX
Offered in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian.
The tour is available every day.
The meeting point for the tour is St Isaac’s Square at the corner of Vosnesensky Prospekt, opposite the Astoria Hotel.
The St Petersburg Faberge Walking Tour combines a walking tour of city highlights related to Karl Faberge and a tour of the Faberge Museum treasury.
This is the only St Petersburg tour provided in official partnership with the Faberge Museum and the tour guides are licensed exclusively for this tour.
Itinerary:
- Meet your guide at the corner of St Isaac’s Square and Vosnesensky Prospekt at 12:00 p.m.
- Your tour will start near the Astoria hotel, an outstanding work of architecture with modern interiors and top-class service. No wonder the street it is on, Bolshaya Morskaya Street, became a popular place for the nobility to go shopping and was nicknamed Diamond Street. There were 25 jewelry shops on the street.
- Then we will stop at the former site of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts where many famous artists displayed their best paintings and artworks. It was here that Karl Faberge selected his team of jewellers.
- Next stop — Karl Faberge’s studio where his workshop produced earrings, necklaces, gifts decorated with gold, diamonds and amber.
- Approaching the Faberge Museum you will see the Elyseevy Shop — an Art Nouveau masterpiece. It belonged to a merchant family which severely suffered from the revolution of 1917. After the revolution, the shop went into a complete decay and was revived only in 2012.
- Finally, you will visit the Faberge Museum. During your hour-long tour, you will see Faberge eggs that were owned by the Romanov family and many other items from Faberge’s workshop: miniatures, tableware, porcelain, stained-glass work. After the tour, you can visit the museum shop and buy high-quality replicas.
Inclusions:
- Admission tickets to the Faberge Museum
- Professional licensed guide
Exclusions:
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Transfer (available as an add-on)
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