16 Activities
Family weekend in the southwest of the Leningrad region
Starts from
Saint Petersburg
Transportation
By Car
Guidance
Self-Guided
Activities
16
Duration
2 days
Length
201 mi
Guide details
Starts from
Saint Petersburg
Transportation
By Car
Guidance
Self-Guided
Duration
2 days
Length
201 mi
Alina Maslova
Travel Expert
- Take a photo in a pensive pose at the monument to Alexander Pushkin, a lycee.
- Imagine yourself as a pupil of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
- Walk along Sarskaya Myza, which became Tsarskoye Selo.
- Witness signals of the Shepelev Lighthouse.
- Make a wish under the umbrella of Ole-Lukoya in Andersengrad.
- Have time to see the Koporskaya fortress that is falling apart.
- Find out secrets of the Priory Palace.
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This is an entertaining and informative itinerary for the whole family. We'll start in the city of Pushkin, where we'll find out how Alexander Pushkin studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. We'll visit the Russian village of Shuvalovka and become a blacksmith's apprentice for a while. We'll visit Andersengrad in Sosnovy Bor and Koporsk fortress on Izhorskaya hillside. And at the very end of the trip we will walk around the Priory Palace in Gatchina.
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This is an entertaining and informative itinerary for the whole family. We'll start in the city of Pushkin, where we'll find out how Alexander Pushkin studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. We'll visit the Russian village of Shuvalovka and become a blacksmith's apprentice for a while. We'll visit Andersengrad in Sosnovy Bor and Koporsk fortress on Izhorskaya hillside. And at the very end of the trip we will walk around the Priory Palace in Gatchina.
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Alina Maslova
Travel Expert
- Take a photo in a pensive pose at the monument to Alexander Pushkin, a lycee.
- Imagine yourself as a pupil of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
- Walk along Sarskaya Myza, which became Tsarskoye Selo.
- Witness signals of the Shepelev Lighthouse.
- Make a wish under the umbrella of Ole-Lukoya in Andersengrad.
- Have time to see the Koporskaya fortress that is falling apart.
- Find out secrets of the Priory Palace.
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Travel itinerary
9 Activities
Day 1
90 mi0.7 mi
To the Lyceum student Alexander Pushkin and Count Ivan Shuvalov
We'll spend the first half of the day in Pushkin. We will visit the classrooms of the Imperial Tsarskoselsky Lyceum, see the bedroom of the young Alexander Pushkin, and take a walk in the Lyceum's garden. Afterwards, we'll go to the Russian village of Shuvalovka and get acquainted with the Russian way of life two hundred years ago.
7:45 PM
7 Activities
Day 2
111 mi0.7 mi
From Andersengrad to the Priory Palace
We will visit a medieval town, based on H.H. Andersen's fairy tales. Then we will move to Koporskaya fortress on the edge of the Izhora uplands. In the afternoon we will learn the mysteries of the Order of Malta in the Priory Palace and try to solve the riddle of the birch house in the Gatchina Palace Park.
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