Leningrad-Tour guide: Ksenia Babich

Tour guide Ksenia Babich — a guide to St. Petersburg and its suburbs

Historian and accredited guide. Emotional and academic — with humor, love for the city, and care for guests.

Tour guide Ksenia Babich, a guide in Saint Petersburg
Ksenia Babich — a professional tour guide in Saint Petersburg and its suburbs. Specializes in the city's history, art, and vibrant contemporary culture.
Guide Saint Petersburg and its suburbs
Emotional Academic With humor Family/friendly Light, conversational

Themes and focus

  • The history of Petersburg: from the Novgorodians to the present day
  • Painting and literature, cultural context
  • The Romanov houses, dynastic history
  • Contemporary Petersburg: street art, architecture, urban environment

Education and licenses

  • Pushkin Leningrad State University — Master of History
  • Training Center "Pedagogical Alliance" — guide training
  • Committee for Culture and Tourism — highest category guide

Briefly about me

"It is not at all necessary to be born in Petersburg, the main thing is to love this city, to know and respect it, to accept it with all its peculiarities…" — (c) a native Petersburger

Favorite routes

  • Secret courtyards and grand stairwells
  • Dostoevsky's secret places
  • The majestic ensembles of the main squares

Tour guide Ksenia Babich — a professional guide in Saint Petersburg and its suburbs: Kronstadt, Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Gatchina, Strelna, Oranienbaum. The history of Petersburg, culture, street art, architecture.