As one of the top Russia tour operators, we always try our best to give the better Russia tour options and features to our tourists. One of them is to introduce the top Russia attractive places that you can visit during your tour to Russia. For that matter, you can find multiple articles about most of the attractions that you can find in Russia, especially in Moscow and St. Petersburg on our weblog, such as this one, which is about the Vasilievsky Island, one of the crucial parts of Russia tours.
Vasilievsky Island is the largest one among other islands of St. Petersburg, and according to Peter the Great’s plan, it supposed to be the center of the new capital. However, due to various reasons, his successor decided to change his plans. Still, Vasilievsky remained as one of the most important and oldest parts of St. Petersburg, which houses several famous places as well as multiple Russia attractive places. It’s one of the top places that you should visit during your tour to Russia because of the attractions that it houses, such as Strelka, Kunstkamera, and Erarta. Vasilievsky Island is quite essential in the tour to St. Petersburg. That’s why most travel agencies have at least one trip to this island on their tour to Russia program. The same goes for us since we also have plans to visit this island on our tour to Russia. However, if you want to visit all the attractions inside this island, you have to make plans yourself because there are still lots of major attractions that you have to visit in St. Petersburg that you can’t spend all of your time on the island.
Vasilievsky Island is the oldest part of St. Petersburg, and there are lots of historical places that you can visit during your tour to Russia in this Island. The most famous place that you can see if you visit Vasilievsky island during your Russia tour is Strelka. Strelka is the location where the Neva River split into two rivers, and because of the attractions on this location, it has turned to one of the famous places on tour to Russia. You can visit the old Exchange Building and Rostral Columns in there. The Rostral Columns are one of the most recognized symbols of the city alongside the Winter Palace and the Angel with Cross. Besides the Strelka, the Twelve Colleges is also on this island. The Twelve Colleges used to house the Imperial government as Peter the Great imagined. Still, due to various reasons, it never worked, and the government changed its location to the Senate Square during the reign of Catherine the Great. Although the Twelve Collages belongs to the St. Petersburg University, it’s still one of the Russia attractive places in the tour to St. Petersburg and people would visit it during their trip to Russia, mainly because of its architecture, but sometimes to visit the Mandaliof Museum, which locates inside the building. The Menshikov Palace is another attraction of Russia in St. Petersburg tour that we at the Star Travel Group recommend to our tourists, mostly because of its magnificent interior and its role in the history of the city. Menshikov Palace is the oldest private structure that has survived from the 18th century, and it’s also the first-ever stone building that had been constructed in St. Petersburg. You can also visit this attraction during your tour to Russia if you visit Vasilievsky Island alongside your journey.
Vasilievsky Island is also home to multiple amazing museums, which each of them would offer various things to their visitors, such as knowledge, entertainment, or beauty. The most famous museum on this island would be the Kunstkamera of Peter the Great; currently houses the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, used to be the Academy of Sciences of Peter the Great, where Peter I satisfied his thirst for knowledge about the science and the world. It’s one of the oldest museums in the world that you can visit during your tour to Russia, in which you can witness the largest collections of ethnographic artifacts in the world. Besides Kunstkamera, the Zoological Museum locates on Vasilievsky Island, which is an excellent place for a family visit because both children and adults would enjoy their time during their stay. With more than 500 thousand exhibits to display, the Zoology Museum will be one of the fun and educational visit on your trip to Russia. If you’re looking for art museums on Vasilievsky Island, there are plenty. Still, one of the foremost art museums that we at the Star Travel Group would suggest you visit would be the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, in which you can find some of the quality artworks of Russian artists from recent years. Although many would say that the Erarta Museum is another typical fine art museums, we should protest that idea because Erarta also creates art in its purest way. The U-space halls in this museum would be an excellent experience for people who love conceptual art, which is why we recommend it in our tour to Russia program. There are several other museums on this island, such as Krasin Museum, but if you don’t have enough time to explore all of them, these three would be our picks for you to visit during your trip to St. Petersburg.
Although there are several churches and cathedrals in Vasilievsky Island, there’s one particular cathedral that attracts most tourists during the tour to Russia. The Saint Andrew’s Cathedral is one of the oldest cathedrals in St. Petersburg that was built by the direct order of Peter the Great himself. St. Andrew was the patron of Peter the Great, and therefore, the imperial family and the cathedral acquired its name from him. One of the reasons behind its popularity is its location, which is in one of the picturesque parts of Vasilievsky Island. Still, its iconostasis and because it’s one of the oldest cathedrals in St. Petersburg made it a common choice for Russia tour program.
If you would like to learn about other attractions on Vasilievsky Island, you can read about them on our weblog, including the Museum of Dolls, the Submarine S-189 Museum, and Krasin Museum. We also recommend our tourists to visit our weblog before they start their travel to Russia because we have lots of useful tips and advice on that matter for them that can help them have a better journey through Russia.
