General Information of the excursion to Pavlovsk.
Availability: All days
Tour starts at: 10 a.m.
Duration: 4 hours
Price: from 60 euro per person(*price per person in a party of 4 adults).

Description of the excursion to  Pavlovsk palace.

Pavlovsk is the youngest of the grand Imperial estates surrounding St. Petersburg. Named in honour of the Emperor Paul, this magnificent neo-classical palace and its extensive landscaped gardens are stamped with his taste and even more so with that of his wife, the German-born Maria Feodorovna. Although there was no love lost between Pavel and his mother, Catherine the Great, it was she who originally presented him with this property. Perhaps it was the impossibility of living with her son at the Tsar's Village, combined with the desire to keep him and his family reasonably close, that prompted her to do so, although the official reason was the birth of her grandson, the future Alexander I. 

Although lacking the dazzling splendour of the estates at Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof, Pavlovsk Palace is well worth visiting both for the treasures in the elegant palace such as the great collection of art, its magnificent interiors and for the charming park, which is one of the largest and finest English-style landscape gardens outside the UK.  

The excursion to the Pavlovsk palace includes:

 - Entrance fees
 - Transportation by car or mini van
 - Hotel pick up and drop off
 - English-speaking local guide