St.-Petersburg Suida (country seat of Abraham Hannibal, Peter the Great’s associate, great-grandfather of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin) Kobrino (house of Pushkin’s nurse Arina Rodionovna, Museum of Russian peasants’ daily life) Vyra (post-station of the XIX century, house of station keeper, Museum of travellers’ life; dinner at the inn) Rozhdestveno (Vladimir Nabokov’s estate, churches, "Silver spring" and cave) St.-Petersburg.

The museum was created after Alexander Pushkin’s story "Post station keeper" and after documents from archives. The furniture of the museum is typical for post stations of the first part of the XIX century.

The exposition of the museum, had been opened in 1999, is founded with authentic relics of Abraham Hannibal and his descendants. The park with "the stone sofa of Hannibal" and ancient pond were preserved. At the moment, side by side with the historic exposition, there is a unique Potato Museum in Suida.

The furniture of a peasants’ house of the age of Pushkin (first part of the XIX century) is reconstructed in the ancient hut of the descendants of Pushkin’s nurse.

St.-Petersburg Suida Kobrino Vyra Rozhdestveno hotel in Gatchina or in Novy Svet Skvoritzy (Finnish church) Tikhvinka (Folk museum of Ingermanland Inkeri-land) Taitzy (Country seat of the Demidovs).

St.-Petersburg Suida Kobrino Vyra Rozhdestveno hotel in Gatchina or in Novy Svet Siverskij (guide-tour by feet, lunch) Vyritza (Serafim of Vyritza’s grave, guide-tour by feet) St.-Petersburg.

Steep and precipitous banks of Oredezh-river are consist of ancient red Devon limestone (analogous type of soil lies in famous Yellowstone National Park in the USA). Your attention also will be attracted with the prehistoric cave with the "Saint spring" in a neighbourhood of Rozhdestveno estate.

A giant ice age boulder called "Mama-kamen’" ("Mother-stone" or Valkeakiivi in finnish) in a neighbourhood of Novinka station served as a boundary post at Russian-Sweden border after the conclusion of Stolbovskij peace treaty in 1617.

St.-Petersburg Taitzy Suida Rozhdestveno Druzhnoselie (country seat of the Witgensteins, Roman catholic church) Lampovo (schimatic village) Orlino (country seat of the Protasovs-Stroganoffs) Druzhnaya Gorka (one of the eldest glass factories in Russia) hotel in Gatchina or in Novy Svet Nikol’skoye (the Demidov’s estate Sivoritzy) Elizavetino (Imperial hunting lodge Dylitzy) St.-Petersburg.

The Gatchina palace and parks ensemble (Gatchina Palace-museum and Prior Palace, parks with pavilions, sculpture, bridges, obelisks, café and boats for hire etc.). Built in the second part of the XVIII century and had been reconstructed in the XIX century, the hunting lodge of Catherine II’s favourite Grigorij Orlov then became a favourite country residence for Russian Emperors Paul I and Alexander III. Architects: Antonio Rinaldi, Vincenzo Brenna, Roman Kuzmin.

The Prior palace is a unique building that was constructed from rammed earth by Paul I’s order in the late XVIII century. Architect Nicolai Lvov.

It was constructed in the early XX century in a Northern modernist style by architect V. Tavlinov. The owner of the estate was A. Eliseev’s daughter – Elizaveta Alexandrovna Fomina.

A country house was built in the late XVIII century in Russian classic style. The history of the estate is closely connected with the name of well-known Russian & English lingual writer Vladimir Nabokov who spent his childhood in a neighbourhood.

The country house and park with pavilions were built in 1770s by known Russian architect I. Starov. It was belonged to famous Russian mine-owners Demidovs.

Consecrator Alexij the Metropolitan of Moscow church in Taitzy; Christ Resurrection church in Voskresenskoye, a replica of a historic church, that wasn’t preserved, where A. Pushkin’s parents (Sergey Pushkin and Nadezhda Hannibal) were married; Virgin Mary’s Nativity church and Ascension church in Rozhdestveno; St. Paul’s cathedral in Gatchina; St. Nicolas church in Belogorka; Kazan icon of Virgin Mary church and St. Serafim of Vyritza chapel in Vyritza. Here, near the Kazan icon of Virgin Mary church, the grave of St. Serafim of Vyritza is situated.

During the whole XVII century the lands of contemporary Gatchina district were constituent of a Sweden province Ingermanland (in finnish Inkeri, Inkerinmää). That period lots of Finnish peasants moved here from Finland. Their descendants got the name of ingermanland Finns at times after Peter the Great.

At period of Stalin’s repressions the ingermanlanders were exiled from their native land. Nowadays the original ingermanland culture and Finnish national self-consciousness are partly revived. The national voluntary organization "Inkeri-Seura" exists in Gatchina district where 40% of all Ingermanland Finns live. There are three Lutheran parishes in Gatchina, Kolpany and Skvoritzy, Old people’s homes in Taitzy and Tervolovo. The bilingual national newspaper "Inkeri" is published.

The itinerary of the guide-tour "Ingermanland – a splinter of Finland in the environs of St.-Petersburg" (by bus or by car): St.-Petersburg Taitzy Tikhvinka (Folk museum) Skvoritzy (church, the place for Juhannus celebration) Gatchina (church) Kolpany (church, the place of former Finnish teacher seminary) Shpan’kovo (ruins of church) Kobrino (the place of an old church, ingermanland origins of Pushkin’s nurse Arina Rodionovna) St.-Petersburg.