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The Pearls of Russian Provinces 14 days in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kostroma Itinerary Day 1 Airport or railway station pickup. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. City orientation bus tour «The foundation of the north capital, the centre of science and art”: (The house of Peter the First. Menshikov`s and Marble palaces. Church of Our Savior. Summer Garden and the Field of Mars). Excursion to the cruiser Aurora. Visit of the Peter & Paul Fortress (the first construction in St. Petersburg) and St. Peter and Paul Cathedral. Day 2 Excursion to the Hermitage Museum – the winter palace of Russian Emperors, second largest art museum in the world. Excursion to St.Isaac's Cathedral – one of the largest cathedral in Europe and one of the symbols of St. Petersburg. Day 3 Tour to Pavlovsk and Pushkin. The Grand Palace of Catherine, Alexandrovsky palace and park. Visit the palace of Paul I and landscape park. Day 4 Visit to Alexandro-Nevskaya Monastery. Russian Museum Day 5 Peterhoff. Visit of the Grand Palace, summer residence of Peter the First and park, the masterpiece of fountain art of the 18th century. Departure to Moscow. Day 6 Orientation bus tour. Dedication to Muscovites. The main streets and squares of the city, world known sights of the capital. Moscow Kremlin. Historical architectural complex of Sobornaya Plochad. Church of Christ the Savior, Novodevichy monastery. Vorobjevy Gory. Poklonnaya Gora, Kutuzovsky prospect, Arbat street. Night reception «Russian nights», Russian cuisine and folk show. Day 7 Excursion “Kitaji-gorod”. Architectual and historical memorials of 15th-16th centuries. Visit to the unique collection of Russian artists paintings in Tretjyakov gallery. Night performance in one of Moscow theatres. Day 8 Park museum Kolomenskoye. The palace and the park of Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich. Spassky gates, prikaznye palaty and other architectural memorials of the 16th century. Day 9 Trip to Sergiev Posad. Troitse-Sergieva monastery founded by Sergy Radonezsky more than 600 years ago. Architecture of churches of the ancient monastery. Troitsky cathedral. Famous icons of Andrei Rublev. Fresco. Old Russian needlework of the 14-17th centuries. Day 10 Excursion: “Many-sided Moscow”. Architectural and cultural peculiarities of tsars, socialistic, and modern Moscow. Day 11 Trip to Pereslavl-Zalessky. Church town of the 12th century. Rostov Veliky. Spaso-Yakovlevsky monastery, kremlin. Borisoglebsk town. Monastery of 1363, Borisoglebsk cathedral, the belfry. Day 12 Trip to Yaroslavl. Spaso-Preobrazensky monastery – the oldest architectural memorial of Povolzje of the 12th century. Church of Ilija the Prophet of the 17th century. Day 13 Kostroma town. Ipatjevsky monastery, boyars Romanovs chambers. Day 14 Return. - on top ©2003 Tourism program "Russian Heritage Tours" |
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