Jewish St Petersburg Tour

Our Jewish Petersburg tour will acquaint you with the history of the local Jewish community starting from the first Jewish settlers who came here in the days of Peter the Great. From the very foundation Jews have always lived in our city. Throughout the 300 years of history, Jewish St Petersburg saw its ups and downs, prosperity in the second half of the 19th century and dreadful days of Revolution, Red Terror, Stalin’s repressions and the Siege of Leningrad in WWII. The present-day Jewish community is growing. The community members keep their traditions and family ties and are willing to share their life experience and knowledge. Our tour will take you to the Grand Choral Synagogue, where you will have a tour by a local community representative, sharing the history of this beautiful place and answer your questions about the past and present of Jewish St Petersburg. A visit to a local Jewish community centre will give you an insight to the present-day life, difficulties, joys and aspires. Jewish Cemetery is where the memory of the past lives. Upon your wish, Jewish exhibition at the Russian Ethnography Museum can be included in the tour.