School Trips to St Petersburg

*Please note tours to Russia are currently suspended*

St Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and St Petersburg again – the city’s succession of names mirrors Russia’s turbulent history.  Founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as a “window in the West”, three hundred years later St Petersburg, a self-assured and future-focused city, still retains more of a Western European feel than Moscow.

A sophisticated capital of the tsarist Empire, the cradle of the Communist Revolution of 1917, and a symbol of Russian stoicism due to the city’s heroic endurance of a three-year Nazi siege during World War II, present day St Petersburg has eased into modernity without sacrificing any of its old-world magnificence and charm, its shopping malls and nightclubs sitting alongside its opulent palaces.  The city is easy to navigate and the pace of life is relaxed.