Tsar Visit

06/12/2025

🔥 Extreme Russian Wellness: Are You Brave Enough for the Banya?
You’ve explored the Kremlin, seen the Bolshoi, and wandered the Hermitage. Now, it’s time for the ultimate Russian adventure—the Banya!
This isn’t just a sauna; it’s a centuries-old, adrenaline-pumping ritual that’s a mandatory check on your Russian bucket list.
🌡️ Why It’s Extreme & Incredibly Cool:
1. The Heat Challenge: Step into the parilka (steam room) where temperatures soar and the air is thick with steam. It’s a test of endurance and focus. We’re talking intense, humid, high-octane heat that detoxifies you from the inside out!
2. The Venik Lashing: Forget gentle massages. The parenie involves being lightly «beaten» with a venik (a bundle of aromatic birch or oak branches). It sounds wild, but this intense, rhythmic lashing drives heat into your muscles, boosts circulation, and releases stress like nothing else. It’s rugged, traditional, and instantly revitalizing.
3. The Icy Plunge: The moment of truth! After intense heat, you must plunge into an ice-cold pool or roll in the winter snow. This extreme contrast is a massive rush—it shocks the system, closes pores, and leaves you with an unparalleled feeling of euphoria and energy.
4. Authentic Connection: The Banya is deeply social. It’s where you truly connect with Russian culture, relax with herbal tea, and share the kind of travel stories you can only get from a genuine Tsar Visit experience.
Dare to try the ritual that cleanses, heals, and invigorates? This is Russian wellness at its most intense.
Would you take the icy plunge after the venik treatment? Tell us below! 👇

03/12/2025

THE PERFECT DATE: THE BOLSHOI THEATRE EDITION

The most elegant date in Moscow starts here: the Bolshoi.
Dressed up, glowing, stepping into one of the world’s most iconic theatres — and yes, you can even go backstage for a real theatre experience.
A night where everything feels elevated: the atmosphere, the music, the two of you.

28/11/2025

EXPERIENCE ICE-FLOATING — Where the Arctic Holds You

What does it feel like to float in icy water… without feeling cold at all?

No shock. No panic.
Just complete stillness:
the body floating by itself,
the silence of the white horizon,
the mind slowing down as if someone pressed “pause”.

This is Experience Floating — one of the most unusual winter activities you can try in Russia.

Where You Can Try It

Kola Peninsula (Murmansk Region)
The absolute classic: floating in the Barents Sea, with open-water pockets even in winter.
On some days, curious seals come close enough to watch the bright orange suits.
Perfect to combine with Northern Lights.

Kandalaksha Bay
Clear water, dramatic ice formations, safe entry spots, breathtaking winter landscapes.

Lake Ladoga (Karelia)
Floating between ice plates in the skerries — calm water, wide horizons, and a pure northern silence.

Lake Baikal & Angara River
Floating in the only river that never freezes, with Baikal’s icy cliffs just nearby.

Altai, Kirov Region, Primorye
Small, clean lakes and rivers where floating becomes a meditative, almost spa-like ritual.

What the Experience Feels Like

• No cold — the suit isolates the body completely
• Lightness — like lying on an air mattress
• Slow breathing — guided by your instructor
• Deep reset — the mind clears, the body relaxes
• After-effect — a surprising boost of energy

It’s one of those activities you try once… and want to repeat every winter.


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27/11/2025

METRO EXPERIENCE— Not Just a Ride, a Journey

Step underground and enter a different world.
It’s an urban adventure through palaces of marble, mosaics, sculptures, and hidden stories.

What you’ll do:
• Explore the most iconic stations with a guide who knows every secret corner
• Learn why the metro was designed like a “palace for the people”
• Discover platforms inspired by art, mythology, aviation, and literature
• See the Instagram-famous stations that look like museums
• Feel the rhythm of the city from the inside — fast, grand, alive

Perfect for first-timers and repeat visitors who want to see the city from a new angle.

Ready to dive in?
We’ll show you the most beautiful metro in the world — and the stories that live beneath it.

24/11/2025

When the Huskies Run — You Follow

What the Experience Feels Like?

A comfortable transfer takes you out of the city and into a calm winter landscape.
The huskies greet you the moment you arrive — loud, joyful, and absolutely ready to run.

You’ll ride a real husky sled, walk through the snowy forest with the dogs, play with them, feed them, and take the kind of photos you won’t stop looking at.
After the ride, hot tea with local organic honey brings the perfect warm finish.

🗓️When We Go?

1 December 2025 – 30 March 2026
— Every Monday, Wednesday, Saturday
— Meet at 09:00, start at 09:15

The tour does NOT operate from 5 to 10 January 2026.

So tell us — when are you planning your husky ride this winter?

30/10/2025

RUSSIAN CHURCH. Our country, with its deep spiritual roots and centuries-old Christian heritage, is home to thousands of breathtaking churches that reflect its cultural and architectural legacy.

From grand cathedrals crowned with golden domes to serene countryside chapels, churches in Russia are not only places of worship but also monuments of national identity and artistic achievement.
📩 for planning your visit to the most outstanding (though they all are!) Russian churches.

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Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, St.Petersburg.
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08/10/2025

This is also Moscow. It’s not only about the Red Square. Take half an hour trip by subway and you’ll see Singapore. We can organize an architectural trip around Moscow for you.

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06/10/2025

A REVIEW. A kind feedback we’ve got from the French tourists for whom we organized a trip St. Petersburg and Moscow in September.
„As well as we were astonished by the cultural heritage of your country, we were amazed by the kindness of the people and the cleanliness of your cities.
It is unbelievable that you have maintained and safeguarded your cultural riches which are part of the universal heritage despite the hazards which have marked the history of your nation since the last century.
Our guides, Ladies Alla and Irina, have exceeded our expectations, both by their punctuality and by their knowledge.
We hope to come back to your country another time to live a new experience.
A thousand thanks again!“

PS. Voice in this video is from subway, announcing stops.

14/09/2020

The most famous milliner in the world exhibits his work at the Erarta museum from this month until January 🎩👒 This exhibition, by its extravagance and its originality is worth the detour! A to-do in September!

Philip Treacy is back! The large-scale show by the world’s greatest milliner is the gift to St. Petersburg that Erarta Museum has in store for its own 10th anniversary