Neva Seasons Travel Company

29/11/2023

St. Petersburg, one of the most beautiful cities of Russia, is again covered in a thick blanket of snow. ❄️

This event always causes delight among locals and tourists because snow turns the city into a real fairy tale. ✨🤩

Fans of active sports can enjoy ice skating. 🎿 Those who prefer quieter entertainment can stroll through the parks and enjoy the beauty of snow-covered alleys and squares. 🧣🧤

Snowfall in St. Petersburg also gives a special atmosphere to the city. Elegant architectural monuments such as the Hermitage, The Church of thе Savior on Spilled Blood and the Peter and Paul Fortress look even more majestic.

Snow in St. Petersburg is not only a weather phenomenon, but also a symbol of winter magic. It attracts tourists from all over the world who want to see this unique city during the winter season. ☃️🌨

13/11/2023

Meet us in Qatar this November! 👋

Dear friends, we are glad to invite you to the international tourist exhibition “Qatar Travel Mart 2023”.

📆 When? 20-22, November 2023, from 10am to 7pm
📍 Where? Doha Exhibition & Convention Center (DECC)

We will wait for you at the stand of Saint Petersburg Convention Bureau number G10. Come to learn about tours to Saint-Petersburg and all around Russia. 😃

📎To participate fill in the form on the site: https://app.qtmqatar.com/index/registration?cat=2

09/11/2021

23/07/2021

There are still almost no foreign tourists in St. Petersburg. The more exciting it is to receive tourists that managed to reach our country.
Our guest Mr. Laksh*tha from Sri Lanka, after visiting Moscow is having a great time in St. Petersburg, accompanied by our guide Mikhail.
Enjoy your time in St.Petersburg, Lucky! 😎

30/03/2021

The museum "Underground Printing House of 1905-1906" is one of the most unusual museums in Moscow.
The museum's exposition is located in the historical center of the capital.
It was in this very building where during the first Russian revolution an illegal underground printing house was located and where revolutionary leaflets were printed. The printing house was never discovered by the tsarist police due to the high professionalism of its conspirators.
The Museum was opened in 1924. It was created as a monument to the political history of the country during the revolution of 1905-1907 as well as the history of underground activities. The organizers of the museum were those who stood at the origins of the secret printing house and worked there thus the exhibition is compiled with extraordinary accuracy.
Nowadays the museum complex "Underground Printing House of 1905-1906" allows you to feel the spirit of that time and imagine the difficult working conditions in which underground figures worked.

25/03/2021

The Imperial Porcelain is a unique phenomenon. Its history is closely connected with the history of Russia, its products — artistic porcelain — is represented in the collections of the largest museums in the world. This is one of the oldest factories of St. Petersburg and of Russia in general.

Today it is a whole complex that deals not only with production, but also with exhibitions and educational projects. The factory has a Museum of Imperial Porcelain that since 2001 has been managed by the State Hermitage Museum. The museum itself was founded in 1844 by the decree of Nicholas I.

Those who want to see with their own eyes how the products of the factory are produced can take a tour to the factory and observe the process of making various porcelain objects.

18/03/2021

Vladimir Ulyanov (the main pseudonym of Lenin) is one of the most famous politicians of the 20th century. His biography is one of the most interesting and mysterious ones among the biographies of world politicians.

It was he who was the main organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, which radically changed Russia's hystory.

We've selected some interesting facts about this political figure that you probably didn't know:
1️⃣ During the childhood and youth the mother of young Lenin did not know how to wean him from smoking. No persuasion worked. Lenin continued to smoke. But when his mother said that ci******es cost a lot of money and the Ulyanov's family couldn't afford it - this became the argument for the future revolutionary and since then he no longer smoked.
2️⃣.The pseudonym "Lenin" was first mentioned in 1901. The origin of the most well-established pseudonym is still unknown, although there were about 148 pseudonyms in total.
3️⃣ Lenin could have won the Nobel Peace Prize. It was decided to give him the prize in 1918, if there would be peace in Russia by 1918. Still the outbreak of the civil war deprived the leader of the Nobel prize.
4️⃣ Lenin is one of the few political figures who did not leave behind an autobiography. 5. Ulyanov was always afraid of being paralyzed and unable to work independently. Sensing the approach of a stroke, he called Stalin and asked him to give him poison in case of paralysis. Stalin did not comply with this request. 6. There are more than 5,000 streets that bear the name of Lenin in Russia. It is interesting that sometimes a neighboring or intersecting street is called after Lenin's wife-Krupskaya.

15/03/2021

A unique opportunity to meet face to face!
We are going to MITT, the 27th International Tourism Exhibition, which will be held on March 16-18, 2021 at the Crocus Expo IEC, Moscow.
📌 Our booth number: B 2071

⚡A promo code for free participation in the exhibition for all our agents: mitt21eEKNY

12/03/2021

Today 98 years ago Moscow regained the status of the capital of Russia

Since the beginning of the 14th century the residence of the Grand Dukes of Moscow was located in Moscow. In 1712 due to the favorable location of the city on the Baltic Sea and its proximity to Europe the capital was moved to the newly built city of St. Petersburg . St. Petersburg (and later Petrograd) was the capital of the country until 1918

After the October Revolution, on March 12, 1918, Moscow regained the status of the capital of Russia.

02/03/2021

If you wondered how people lived during the Soviet times you may take a tour to Kommunalka appartment that will give you a rare opportunity to learn everything about it.

You will find yourself in a typical soviet apartments (called Kommunalka) with the pre-revolutionary fireplace and furniture, will visit the common kitchen and discover how people's life is arranged.

In the 1920s the process of transforming apartments belonging to one owner into communal apartments began in the large cities of the young Soviet country. The former owners of the apartment moved into one of the rooms and other rooms occupied in need of housing factory workers, military personnel, members of the various Soviet institutions, and so on. In this way, the Soviet authorities tried to solve the housing problem in the cities, primarily in Moscow and Leningrad, where the population constantly increased due to the influx of labor from the provincial regions of Russia. Nowadays, 10% of housing in St. Petersburg are “communal”. Cohabitation of strangers in one apartment gave birth to a whole cultural layer of urban folklore. Many residents of St. Petersburg keep memories of their childhood and youth spent in such communal apartments.

25/02/2021

How to spend an evening in St. Petersburg? Classic options are – going to the theater, concert or visiting a museum. Still you can find a lot of unusual ones. One of them is listening to music in the temple, whose hallmark is its burnt walls.

The Annenkirche is a functioning Lutheran church that dates back to 1735. Its parishioners were the jeweler Karl Faberge, the traveler N. Miklukho-Maklay and the artist Karl Bryullov. At the beginning of the XXI century, the interiors of the temple were damaged during a fire and have not yet been restored. However, this does not prevent it from being the center of attraction for many locals and visitors to the city. People come here for worship services, Sunday school classes, for performances and exhibitions, lectures and master classes. There are also excursions on regular basis (sometimes even at night!), during which you can climb the bell tower.

Nowadays concerts and performances are regularly held in the church. The program includes classical music, jazz, flamenco, world rock hits, and movie music.

18/02/2021

St. Petersburg is rightfully considered to be the cat's capital. The city has a lot to do with these animals and there are numerous monuments dedicated to these animals in it. The monuments are located in courtyards, parks, and even on the houseeves.

🐈 The first and the most famous monument to the cat is the monument to the cat Elisha and Vasilisa. These charming sculptures on the eave in the very center of St. Petersburg are monuments to the smoky cats, which were brought to our city shortly after the lifting of the blockade, as a solution against hordes of hungry rats. According to the old tradition, coins are thrown on the eaves to the cats to get a good luck.

🐈 A granite monument to the experimental cat is installed in the courtyard of one of the main universities of St. Petersburg as a gratitude from scientists who used cats in their work.

🐈"In memory of the cats of the besieged Leningrad" - this monument is erected to commemorate thousands of cats who saved the inhabitants of the city from starvation, at the cost of their own lives.

🐈 "The cat on the stone" - installed to remind the residents of this area that in Finnish times their island was called "Kissaisaari", which means "cat's island".

🐈 "The learned cat" from the Pushkin's fairy tale, shows the children the path to knowledge. They say that if you rub the cat's glasses and make a wish related to the field of education — it will be fulfilled.

16/02/2021

Planning an event in St. Petersburg? 🤔
St. Petersburg has it all to become another center of business tourism in Russia. Hotels with good conference facilities, variety of incentive and team building programs, palaces and cultural heritage make more people to plan their MICE events in this city.
We have selected 10 venues in St. Petersburg that can be used for any type of event:
1️⃣ Greenhouse of the tauride garden
2️⃣ New Holland Island
3️⃣ Rumyantsev mansion
4️⃣ Pavillion at the Peter and Paul Fortress
5️⃣ Catherine Palace in Pushkin
6️⃣ The National Congress Palace
7️⃣ The Yusupov Palace
8️⃣ Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
9️⃣ Fabergé Museum
🔟 Crystal pavilion

14/02/2021

The Day of Aeroflot airlines. In Russia, there is a company that was at the origins of aviation development - the name of this company is Aeroflot.
The day of Aeroflot airlines is celebrated in Russia every year on the second Sunday of February. The initiator of the holiday was the government of the Soviet Union. The purpose of the holiday is to honor aviation employees, increase the prestige and popularization of the profession. The tradition of the former USSR has been preserved and the holiday is still celebrated in the modern Russia.
Interesting facts about the company:
✈️ A number of aircrafts have their own names in honor of outstanding poets, composers, artists, astronauts, scientists, doctors, researchers.
✈️ During the year, Aeroflot airlines and its subsidiaries carry over 15 million passengers.
✈️ Aeroflot was the world's largest company until 1991.

Please share what airlines do you prefer for traveling and for business trips?

11/02/2021

The Kunstkamera is one of the oldest ethnographic museums in the world and the first museum of this kind in Russia.

The museum was named after the German word "Kunstkammer", which means "Cabinet of curiosities". The museum was supposed to house all sorts of rarities created by nature and human. The full name of the museum is the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Its history began with a personal emperor's collection of curiosities — stuffed animals, models of ships, instruments and astronomical instruments. There are also unique objects in the Kunstkammer, for example, a huge (with a diameter of more than 3 m) Gottorp globe of the XVII century, made in the German city of Gottorp and presented to Peter. It is a kind of planetarium with a map of the sky.

The royal collections were open for public. "I want people to watch and learn!" used to say Peter the Great. No money was taken for the entrance, moreover, each visitor was offered a treat. Nowadays the Kunstkamera museum is one of the most visited and interesting museums of St. Petersburg

09/02/2021

The North Caucasus is Russia's unique region where you can improve your health, recover and experience adventure sports.

The nature of the region with abundance of vegetation, waterfalls, mountains and a variety of wildlife, historical monuments, churches built more than a thousand years ago attract visitors from differents countries.

Visiting the North Caucasus, you will learn its history, discover the customs that have been formed for centuries, will try delicious cuisine and admire the incredible views. Such a trip will not leave anyone indifferent.

From our part we have prepared a small checklist for those who has inspired to plan a trip to this original region.

04/02/2021

"There is nothing between life and death but music" M. L. Rostropovich

His name is included in the "Forty Immortals" members of the Academy of Arts in France, he is a five-time winner of the "Grammy". He used to say: "I don't love any country in the world as much as Russia."
Mstislav Rostropovich is a legendary musical phenomenon. Once he tried to play cello at the age of 10 , the musician did not part with this musical instrument during all his life. Rostropovich played so brilliantly that his style of performance inspired major composers to create new masterpieces. More than 100 works for cello were written especially for him. Among the authors are Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Messiaen and many others.

02/02/2021

Most of the people think that going to St. Petersburg in the winter period is not the best idea. Not at all! St. Petersburg's winter is not as severe as it is considered to be, the average temperature rarely falls 10 degrees below zero and the city during this period offers a very special and unique athmosphere. If you are planning to go to St. Petersburg during winter - get dressed properly, prepare comfortable and waterproof shoes and get ready to discover the city!
1️⃣ St. Petersburg is a museum city. It is in winter that is the best time to explore the city's best known museums. The venues are not overcrouded by the tourists and you can enjoy the works of art in your own rithm.
2️⃣ There is a huge number of theaters in the Northern capital - the Mariinsky, the Mikhailovsky Theater, the Hermitage Theater, the theater of the Yusupov Palace. During the winter period there is a great variety of daily performances available. Therefore, if your trip to St. Petersburg falls on the winter period, be sure to plan a number of theater evenings.
3️⃣ St. Petersburg is not only a historical city. It is modern and offers all sorts of places where you can spend your time at leisure such as well decorated parks, where you can go skiing, skating and have a great time in the fresh air. One of the most popular ice rinks is the Ice Rink in New Holland Island. Apart from the New Holland, here are many places in the city than offer a great variety of winter activities.
4️⃣ Lovers of quiet and peacefull rest will definitely have a great time in one of the creative spaces of the city, such as, Loft Project "Floors", "Lumiere Hall", "Taiga" or in any other creative spaces of the city, where you can enjoy a moment with a cup of coffee.
5️⃣ The last but not the least, you should definitely take a walk around the winter St. Petersburg. During this period, the streets, avenues and squares of the city are full of special charm and mystery.

Be sure, even if you have already visited St.Petersburg before - you will fall in love with the city once again after visiting it during the winter time.

28/01/2021

January 27 is a special day for all the residents of St. Petersburg (former Leningrad) - the day that thousand of people were waiting for 77 years ago. The day when the blockade was finally over.
On September 8, 1941, the siege ring closed around the city. 872 days of hunger, fear, and loss. 3 191 304 people were in a trap. The blockade has become a challenge not only for adults, but also for children.
Boys and girls put out fires, kept watch at night on observation towers, those who were younger stood in line for bread. Chopping wood, washing bandages, clearing the streets of snow, delivering mail, harvesting, carying water from the river Neva - the work that children's hands did. During 872 days Leningrad girls and boys lived in equal conditions with adults. Little heroes made a significant contribution to the liberation of Leningrad.
The diary of Tanya Savicheva became a horrific symbol of the besieged city. Records that still do not leave anyone indifferent.

"Grandmother died on January 25...", " Mother on May 13...", "Uncle Alyosha on May 10", " Everyone died. Only Tanya is still alive." The girl died in 1945 during the evacuation.

25/01/2021

Today is the birthday of one of the most renowned Russian universities the Moscow State University. In less than three centuries, the university became well known for its awards and graduates working in all the continents. The idea of creating the University belongs to the russian statesman Ivan Shuvalov and the first Russian natural scientist - Mikhail Lomonosov.

The opening of the Moscow University took place in 1755. The order on the establishment of the educational institution was signed by the Russian Empress Elizabeth on January 12 of the same year. Due to the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one, this day has shifted to the 25th of January.

22/01/2021

Meet another tailor made tour by our guide Maxim Kapustin - Rivers and canals by bus

🚌 Type: bus tour
📝 Description:
The city of St. Petersburg is a city on the Neva River. But not only. In addition to it, we also have rivers and canals. Numerous bridges are thrown over the city’s waterways. They are a true decoration of the Northern Capital.

On this tour, we will go through all the historical river embankments of the city. We will learn the history of the creation of all the buildings on our way from bridges and their decoration to numerous palaces and houses along rivers and canals.

You will discover what practical function the canals performed and why the first Russian emperor - Peter 1 forbade building bridges across the Neva.

All the most luxurious mansions since the founding of the city were built along the rivers of the city. Truly, this is the most beautiful excursion

19/01/2021

Discover Kaliningrad with Nevaseasons ✌
Kaliningrad ( former Konigsberg) is a city in Western Russia that is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. This is one of the most unusual cities in Russia with a mixture of classical German and Soviet architecture. Kalinigrad is not overwhelmed with tourists and has a lot to offer them. Below you will find our check list for Kaliningrad:

13/01/2021

If you plan a trip to St. Petersburg try to find a couple of days to visit one of the most European towns in Russia - Vyborg. Walk along its narrow medieval streets, admire the picturesque park among high rocks and stones, visit a real knight's castle and simply enjoy its cozy atmosphere. Vyborg has a very rich history - the influence of European culture can be found in its architectural appearance: the squares and streets of the historical part have preserved its authentic atmosphere of the past centuries. According to historical chronicles Vyborg was founded by the Swedes, for some time belonged to the Finns, and finally became the only Russian town with a medieval castle right in the city center.

12/01/2021

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When Russia was converted to Christianity its artists soon became masters of icon painting. The most famous Russian icon is Trinity by Andrei Rublev. Until the 19th century religious art dominated in Russia. In the 19 th century to Russia came another art movement - realism in which artists depicted the people and the nature precisely and with accuracy. The best known Russian realist paintings are Morning in a Pine Forest by Ivan Shishkin, Golden Autumn by Isaac Levitan, Barge Haulers on the Volga by ilya Repin and The ninth wave by Ivan Aivazovsky. The modernist art flourished in Russia in the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th centuries. Among the most famous modern Russian paintings are Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky, The Black Square by Kazimir Malevich or I and the village by Marc Chagall.

07/01/2021

There is a museum in St. Petersburg dedicated to the Soviet history. It's collection includes more than 15,000 exhibits and covers the time period from the First World War to the collapse of the USSR. Visiting the museum will give you a unique opportunity to revel the recent past of the great country and feel life of those years, to hear the stories about how the Soviet people worked, spent there free time, served their Homeland and conquered the Arctic and Space. The exposition has interactive platforms where you can fully immerse in that era - set up a soviet TV on the desired channel or to take pictures with a camera of the 60th. Most of the exhibits are still functioning till nowadays.

05/01/2021

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Top-5 RUSSIAN DISHES for the New Year table:
🎄 Olivier Salad - is perhaps the most traditional New Year's dish in Russia. You can hardly find a family where there is no Olivier salad on the New Year's table in Russia.
🎄 Herring under a fur coat - is another very popular salad that always appears on holiday tables in Russia. Especially during the winter period.
🎄 Sandwiches with red fish - an absolute must be item on the festive table. For many locals red fish is a symbol of the New Year.
🎄 Holodets - traditionally, this dish is usually prepared for the holidays as it's preparation requires a lot of time and effort. This appetizer of chopped meat in frozen broth fits perfectly into the overall new year's atmosphere.
🎄 Eggs stuffed with red caviar - from the soviet period red caviar is an indispensable attribute of any festive table. They make sandwiches with caviar or fill tartlets with them, or stuff eggs with caviar.

31/12/2020

Dear Partners! We sincerely wish you a Happy New Year!🎉 Let the coming year be filled with prosperity, happiness and travelings! We wish all the best in 2021!!!
With best wishes and love from Neva Seasons 💙

29/12/2020

"The Kingdom of permafrost" is a unique tourist complex located in Yakutsk. It is a huge non-melting glacier inside the mountain with museums and attractions. The complex is open for visitors all year round. The average temperature in the glacier is around -10 °C in the wintertime and does not rise above -4 °C during the summer.

The complex houses ice sculptures created by the best masters of Yakutia, an ice bar and a museum of paleontology where you will find the remains of mammoths and other animals of the ice age.

24/12/2020

💫 Dear partners, Merry Christmas! 🎄💫🥳

22/12/2020

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On the New year eve the streets and main squares of cities are covered with colorful lights and an atmosphere of magic✨. One of the main parts of the festive events are fairs and bazaars🎄. For many centuries, they have been one of the main attributes of the winter holiday bustle and are located mostly in the large spacious squares in the city center, combining under their tents everything that is necessary for the celebration. It is believed that fairs are mainly held in Europe but many cities in Russia can boast of New year's bazaars, which are not inferior to European ones.
Here are the top 5 New Year bazaars of Russia:
🎁 New year's fair in Moscow
🎁 St. Petersburg Christmas fair
🎁 New year's bazaar in Yekaterinburg
🎁 New year's fair on the Kremlin embankment in Kazan
🎁New year's bazaar in Tula

There is traditionally a residence of Ded Moroz 🎅 (Russia's Santa Claus) and an ice rink in the bazaar. During the fairs a lot of different performances, sports competitions and work shops are held there. In the tents you can find a traditional souvenir or warm up with a hot chocolate or mulled wine and have a snack.

17/12/2020

❄️It is impossible to imagine a New Year🎄 without a Santa Clause in the USA, Joulupukki in Finland and without Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) in Russia. Russia’s Ded Moroz 🎅 lives in Veliky Ustyug in the Vologda Region (750 km northeast of Moscow). This town was officialy declared to be the home of Russian Ded Moroz in 1998. The post office in Veliky Ustyug receives around 2,000,000 letters from all over the world for Ded Moroz. The Russian Santa Claus does not have elves o a reindeer. His main assistant is his granddaughter— a young girl known as Snegurka 👸 (the Snow Maiden). The Snow Maiden also has her own residence — in Kostroma (300 km northeast of Moscow) that was opened in 2008 and became one of the most visited places in Kostroma ❄️

15/12/2020

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Sochi is one of the most popular Russian resorts situated on a narrow slip of ground between the Black Sea coast and Caucasus Mountains attracting thousands of people all over the year due to its unique mild climate and alpine air.
For those who like to relax in the mountains, the Rosa Khutor resort , located in the Caucasus Mountains may become the best option! Rosa Khutor is an amazing place - a piece of Europe with a Russian soul and hospitality that will charm you at any time of the year. The resort was built in 2009 and became one of the main venues of the 2014 Winter Olympics. After the Olympics, all sport objects and facilities became available for sports and relax. Nowadays, Rosa Khutor is a modern world-class resort of european type - fashionable, prestigious and has it all for a wonderful holiday throughout the year.

11/12/2020

There are buildings in the Northern Capital of Russia with a unique history and rich in secrets. Among them - the Pharmacy of Doctor Pel 💉. It is located on Vasilievsky island and is one of the oldest pharmaceutical establishments in St. Petersburg, founded in the mid-19th century. However, the history of the building goes back to the Peter the great era. The pharmacy building is more than 300 years old. From 1710 to nowadays, it houses a functioning pharmacy 💊.
Initially, the building was a drugstore, which constantly changed its owners, until it became the property of Pel. The history of the Pel's pharmacy began in 1858, when Wilhelm Pel opened his pharmacy with a medical laboratory. After his death the pharmacy business was inherited by his son Vasily, who passed the family business to his son Alexander. Alexander and his brothers managed to create a whole complex, including laboratories, an organotherapy Institute, pharmaceutical factories, libraries, and warehouses.