For all those who are interested - something about us:

My name is Nils and I actually come from Schleswig Holstein, from the region between Hamburg and Lübeck. My wife Marina was born in St. Petersburg and our little daughters Paulina, Laura and more recently also Sinaida belong to both countries and speak both languages fluently.

With the exception of a few short breaks we have been living and working in St. Petersburg since April 1996. Initially, I worked in the real estate market and, more recently, I have been working in the Quality Management Consulting area for Swedes, Swiss, Russians and for CIM ( the Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung). From March 2006 on I will be starting as "Director of Quality" at Grand Hotel Europa in St. Petersburg.

This city gets more and more beautiful and in spite of all the problems with traveling here (invitation, visa) it attracts more and more tourists every year. This gave us the idea to open a mini-hotel and stated to shape up in autumn 2002.

We were and we still are very enthusiastic about this whole thing, but still we'd had a long and hard way to go before we found necessary investors for this project. After a complicated search we've managed to find the money we needed to buy and fully renovate the chosen apartment. We've found the appropriate flat after intensive search in April 2003. Since December 2003 we are abel to offer our mostly Western-European guests: cosiness, high comfort, and a little bit of typical St. Petersburg's flair at a reasonable price.

Come to visit with us some time...

NB! From the 15th of Feb. 2006 our B&B will be managed by Mr. Zgraggen