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Programm:
1 day.
Group's arrival in Saint Petersburg, meeting with the guide and transfer to the hotel.
Informational meeting about the upcoming trip.
Sightseeing tour:
The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is an Orthodox memorial one patronal temple in the name of the Resurrection of Christ; It was built in memory of the fact that on this place on March 1 (13), 1881, as a result of the assassination attempt, Emperor Alexander II was mortally wounded.
Walk along Nevsky Prospect: the Arch of the General Staff, Literary Cafe; the place where Alexander Sergeyevich liked to be (coffee break with tea and cakes), the famous Passage department store, the Moika River Embankment, the Stroganov Palace and the Singer Company House with a noticeable globe above the glass dome and the magnificent Kazan Cathedral, the Yusupov Palace and the Rasputin’s cellar.
Dinner at the hotel.
2 day.
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
Sightseeing tour:
Start at St. Isaac's Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress and the Cathedral, Walk through the Alexander Garden, Senate Square and the Bronze Horseman. Walk through the Palace Square (the main square of St. Petersburg, an architectural ensemble that emerged in the second half of the 18th - first half of the 19th centuries). Alexander Column, a visit to the Hermitage and the Winter Palace. Transfer to Vasilyevsky Island: Kunstkamera and Strelka.
Trip to Pushkin (museum-reserve in the town of Pushkin (St. Petersburg), including the palace with amber room and park ensemble of the XVIII-XIX centuries, the former suburban royal residence, turned into a museum after the nationalization in March 1918) The Amber Room ( Yantarnaya Komnata ) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors.
Constructed in the 18th century in Prussia, the room was dismantled and eventually disappeared during World War II. Before its loss, it was considered an "Eighth Wonder of the World". A reconstruction was made, starting in 1979 and completed and installed in the Catherine Palace in 2003.The Amber Room was looted during World War II by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany and taken to Koenigsberg for reconstruction and display. Some time in early 1944, with Allied forces closing in on Germany, the room was disassembled and crated for storage in the Castle basement. Koenigsberg was destroyed by allied bombers in August 1944 and documentation of the room location ends there. Its eventual fate and current whereabouts, if it survives, remain a mystery. In 1979 the decision was taken to create a reconstructed Amber Room at the Catherine Palace in Pushkin. After decades of work by Russian craftsmen and donations from Germany, it was completed and inaugurated in 2003.
Dinner in the Compound restaurant. Restaurant "Compound" was opened in 1993. Today it is called "the most Russian restaurant in Russia." Return to the hotel.
3 day.
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant. Trip to Peterhof: Palace and garden complex, Upper Garden, Grand Peterhof Palace (Palace and Park Ensemble on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. The city of Peterhof is located in the municipality).
Oranienbaum: Palace and garden complex, Big Menshikovsky Palace, Lower Garden (Palace and park ensemble on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, 40 km west of St. Petersburg located in the city of Lomonosov).
Dinner at the hotel. Overnight stay.
4 day.
Early breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
Group transfer to the railway station in Saint Petersburg.
Departure by train SAPSAN at 9:00. Trip from St. Petersburg to Moscow will take 4 hours.
Arrival in Moscow and transfer to the hotel.
Excursion of the Kremlin, start near the Kutafiev tower. The tour includes a visit to the Grand Kremlin Palace, the Tsar Cannon, the Assumption Cathedral, the Tsar's Bell, the Archangel Cathedral, the Armory. The Kremlin Armoury is one of the oldest museums of Moscow,
The Kremlin Armoury originated as the royal arsenal in 1508. Until the transfer of the court to
St Petersburg, the Armoury was in charge of producing, purchasing and storing weapons, jewelry and various household articles of the tsars, and valuables stolen from occupied countries. In 1700, the Armoury was enriched with the treasures of the Golden and Silver chambers of the Russian tsars.Walking along the Red Square, guests will have the opportunity to see the St. Basil's Cathedral, the State Historical Museum, Kazan Cathedral, GUM (a department store in the center of Moscow, occupying an entire quarter of the Chinese city and facing Red Square. Until 2059, the building is leased by the Russian trading to company Bosco di Ciliegi, which specializes in the sale of luxury goods). Sparrow Hills (the name of the area in the south-west of Moscow, which is located on the high right bank at the bend of the Moscow River, is covered with a forest park). Also, guests can see the building of the Moscow State University.
After the excursion there is a cruise along the Moscow River. Guests of the capital can enjoy a delicious dinner on the ship.
5 day.
Breakfast in the hotel restaurant. Departure from the hotel.
A trip to the Kolomenskoye Historical and Architectural Museum (Former royal residence, located south of the center of Moscow. Since 1923, the Museum-Reserve of Russian wooden architecture was established on the estate's territory) and the Tsaritsino Reserve Museum (Tsaritsino Architectural Monument is a palace and park ensemble in the south of Moscow; laid at the behest of Empress Catherine II in 1776), after a walk through the VDNKh and the Novodevichy Convent.
Dinner in the restaurant of the city.
Group transfer to the railway station in Moscow
Departure by double-decker train to Kazan.
6 day.
Arrival to Kazan train station at 10:43. Breakfast at the hotel and check-in at the luggage room of the hotel.
Sightseeing tour:
Visit to the Kazan Kremlin with the Kul-Sharif Mosque and the Cathedral of the Annunciation, the oldest stone building in Kazan, as well as the oldest active church on the Volga. All guests can see the old alleys of the city. The program includes a tour of the 7th century Peter and Paul Cathedral, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Tsar Peter I during his Kazan journey around 1726. The old church of St. Barbara, the Resurrection Cathedral with a Vatican copy of the miraculous icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a concert hall, an opera and ballet theater, the Kazanka pier with a new bridge called the Millennium(The total length of the bridge crossing is 1524 meters. The bridge owes its name to the millennium anniversary of Kazan, on the eve of which it was commissioned. The construction of the bridge began in 2004. The opening of the first stage of the bridge took place on July 29, 2005, and on August 30, 2007 the second stage of the bridge was opened.)
Then you will visit the ancient Tatar settlement with a visit to the Azimov mosque - an old stone building from 1897. The Boar River with its legends about countless treasures located at the bottom of the river and the Tatar Drama Theater which is more than 100 years old.
Walk along Bauman Street where the Church of the Epiphany is located and along Petersburg Street with a memorial to the writer Lev Gumilyov and the monument to the ship Tver, on which Catherine II arrived in Kazan in 1767.
Dinner in the restaurant Homeland. Return to the hotel.
7 day.
Breakfast and departure from the hotel.
Raifskiy Monastery, was built in 1613. The complex consists of 6 monasteries and is located on the lake which is considered a source of clean drinking water.
Bus ride to the island town of Sviyazhsk.
In 1551, the fortress was assembled in 4 weeks from parts procured in the Uglich area and fused along the Volga. The city, which was soon built, became the base of Russian troops during the siege of Kazan in 1552. In the middle of the 16th century, the Sviyazhskaya fortress exceeded the size of the Kremlin of Novgorod, Pskov and even Moscow. In 1719, the city became the center of the Sviyazhsky province of the Kazan province, in 1781 – the county town of Sviyazhsky district of the Kazan governorate.
Originally wooden, churches and monasteries of Sviyazhsk were gradually replaced by stone buildings. The abundance of monasteries made it possible to call small Sviyazhsk “a monastery city”.The program includes a visit to the Assumption Cathedral and the female Assumption Monastery. Also in the program is the church of Sergius and Nicholas.
Lunch in the ski center "Kazan" and walk through the picturesque village.
Transfer to the railway station of Kazan. Departure to Moscow by double-decker train at 18:11.