Our St. Petersburg Tour Guides

We strongly feel that your trip’s success depends on your guide’s knowledge, personality and ability to create a friendly atmosphere, and we take this very seriously. We provide you with full packages: both inside and outside excursions. As we are a small company, we are very selective when choosing our guides and have an incredible record of success – our guides are among the best in the industry, and are natives of St. Petersburg – so you will see our city through the eyes of a local! They all speak excellent English, are fully licensed, have a good sense of humor, and create excursions that are flexible – depending on your interests, on your pace, and whether you are with children or not.

Irina

Hello! I’m Irina,a tour guide. I was born in St. Petersburg and never lived anywhere else. Have I traveled? Yes, but I always returned home. So, I love the city (but not always the weather) and know it very well. I graduated from Saint Petersburg State University, where I studied history. My major was the history of fine arts. I’m married and we are happy parents of a wonderful and very active boy and we think it’s not enough I like traveling very much. The most exciting experiences were in the United States, where I was an exchange student and in Siberia, when we went hiking in the mountains.

Ksenia

I was born in Saint Petersburg 26 years ago and have been living here all my life. I’ve been working as an English-speaking guide for 7 years. But it’s not right to call it “work”. Confucius said: “Do what you really like to do and you’ll never have a working day”. I’m one of those lucky people, who managed to do it.. to combine my passions of art, architecture, and my love of this beautiful city with my job. I graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (Master Degree in History of Fine Arts). I have a certificate from the St. Petersburg Association of Professional Guides and Interpreters. As for hobbies they are: photography, painting, sports (such as cycling and windsurfing) and guiding of course!

Sofia

I was born in Saint Petersburg and graduated from Saint Petersburg State University, with a Master’s degree in Oriental Studies and Philology. I have a Diploma from the School of Business (Economics Department), and attended courses on the theory and history of journalism in the 20th century. I’ve been working as a guide since 2002 and enjoy it very much. As a person I’m communicative, responsible, creative and artistic. I enjoy attending ballet (when I was a child I studied ballet) and opera, listening to music, watching movies, visiting art galleries, meeting with friends, and playing sports. I have a special interest in the historical past of Russia, trying to meet people from the former noble families. Some people say that the generation of the 1980s is a transitional one – from soviet to democratic Russia, we remember a little bit from the soviet past, but the mentality is absolutely different. We are more independent and open-minded. I like meeting people and I think that the process of communication can bring a lot of new emotions to our life.

Olga

Dear guests, welcome to Saint Petersburg! My name is Olga and I would enjoy being your guide. I have been living in Saint Petersburg all my life and I am deeply in love with my native city. I grew up and studied here, fell in love for the first time, and met a lot of wonderful people. I love strolling along the streets of St. Petersburg in the shades of green trees on a hot summer day, or walking under an umbrella in the grounds of Petergof when it’s raining. But most of all I enjoy telling stories about the history of St Petersburg, which I know a lot about. When you are in my city, I will be happy to share my love of Saint Petersburg with you.

Maria

My name is Maria, I graduated from St. Petersburg State University in the faculty of sociology, I speak English and Spanish. I love to travel very much and to meet people that travel too, that’s why I work as a tour guide. Together with my husband we have already visited Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Mauritius, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Egypt. Besides visiting old towns and their museums, we search for new spots (new for us) to practice kite surfing and mountain skiing.The other hobby that I have is my pets; I have a dog (German shepherd), a cat and a big parrot.

Nellya

Welcome to St Petersburg. I’m Nellya Isaeva, a tour guide with an exceptional understanding and enthusiasm for my native St Petersburg. I have been working as a professional tour guide in St Petersburg since 2000 after my graduation from St. Petersburg State University (PhD in English Studies) where I majored in philology. I speak English and French. I also teach English at the same university where I studied. I am a Member of the St. Petersburg City Administration of Tourism and Resort Development Committee, and a government licensed guide. My passions for Russian and European history and art history brought me into this field. High art, lavish architecture, an extraordinary history and rich cultural traditions that have inspired and nurtured some of the modern world’s greatest literature, music, and visual art – all these you will find and experience here in St Petersburg. Let me share my knowledge with you to make your stay in St Petersburg unforgettable, enjoyable and interesting. I can show you around the landmarks, tell you the stories of the past and bring you into the living scenes of the present. You will be engrossed in the atmosphere of the opulent imperial palaces, follow in the footprints of Tschaikovsky, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Lenin and bate your curiosity about life “beyond the iron curtain”. I’m also eager to introduce you to the actual life of Russia, to help you to explore real architectural heritage of St Petersburg as well share useful advice on food and local crafts so they won’t be just blurred images for you. Being a government licensed guide of St Petereburg I know a lot about the past and the present of the city and I sincerely love this city, so I want to share this knowledge and love with guests coming from faraway countries.

Ira

Dear TJ Travel guests! My name is Irina Seits. I am a fully licensed tour guide of the company, and I am happy to make your stay in St. Petersburg the most memorable and comfortable experience! I love to share my admiration for this city with its guests, as I devoted my whole life to St. Petersburg. I love to travel around the world, but it was only once when I left St. Petersburg for the whole year when I went to the USA. As an exchange student I had lived with an American family and graduated from an American High School. I have traveled quite a bit around the US and thus a chance to keep in touch with people from the country where I spent my “sweet sixteen” makes my job twice as enjoyable. After I came back home I entered St. Petersburg State University, the Department of History. My first University Diploma Thesis was on the history of St. Petersburg architecture, and I continued to study the architecture of my city at the European University in St. Petersburg, where I got my second Master Degree in Fine Arts and later completed the PhD Academic Program (in the year 2009). Now I am doing my PhD dissertation on St. Petersburg Architecture. In addition, I graduated from a musical school (I play piano). St. Petersburg is a perfect city for an art historian or just an art lover, and I will be happy to help you explore the atmosphere of this magnificent and unique place!

Katya

My name is Katya Chepcheruk and St. Petersurg is my native city. Three generations of my family lived here. I began to study English when I was seven and for the 1st time visited the Hermitage museum at the age of three.So since my early childhood I was interested in Fine Arts And languages. I graduated from St. Petersurg University of Culture and Arts.I have been working as a tour guide for 17 years for the best tour companies of St. Petersurg. I enjoy introducing people to my city and really love my job. I have many hobbies and one of them is traveling.I have been to many countries of the world: US, England, Israel, Greece…I like sports and go to the fitness club several times a week where my favourite activities are water aerobics and dancing. I am married and my daughter is a student of the St. Petersburg State University in the Oriental Department. St. Petersburg is one of the miracles of the world. You can only feel it when you come here yourself. So I hope your visit will be an unforgettable experience for you.


If you’re arriving on a cruise ship, please have a look at our list of St Petersburg Shore Excursions.
Otherwise you can choose from our packaged St Petersburg Tours.