1 day. Moscow
Arrival in Moscow.
Moscow guided sightseeing tour.
During the tour you will see all major sights of the city – embankment of Moscva river, monument of Peter the Great, Novodevichy convent, cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, Bolshoi theatre, and you will enjoy the best view over Moscow with your feet on the ground from University square on the Sparrow Hills (Vorobyovie Gory), formerly the Lenin Hills. Most of the city spreads out before you. Immediately behind University square rises the 36-storey Stalinesque main spire of Moscow University, visible from most places in the city thanks to its elevated site.
Arrival to the hotel. Check in. Dinner at the hotel.
2 day. Moscow
9:00 Pick up at the hotel
10:00 Visit Kremlin grounds including Cathedrals
The Kremlin is the kernel of its city and country, the place to which all Russian roads lead and from which most Russian power emanates. Here Ivan the Terrible and Stalin orchestrated their terrors; Napoleon watched Moscow burn; Lenin fashioned the dictatorship of the proletariat; Khrushchev led communism in the Cold War; Gorbachev unleashed perestroika; and Yeltsin struggled to keep reform afloat. Today the white, blue and red Russian flag flies over the Kremlin.
13:00 Lunch at the local restaurant
14:30 Visit Red Square
It used to be a market square and has always been a place the Kremlin’s occupants chose to make points to their people. The name Krasnaya ploshchad has nothing to do with either communism or the blood that’s flowed here. Krasnyy originally meant beautiful.
Lenin’s granite tomb stands at the foot of the Kremlin wall. From 1953 to 1961 Lenin shared the tomb with Stalin, who when alive initiated the tradition that Soviet leaders stand atop the tomb to inspect the annual May Day and & 7 November parades. From the tomb you emerge into a plot beneath the Kremlin wall where the remains of many more Soviet-era luminaries lie.
St. Basil’s Cathedral rises like at the south end of the Red Square. Despite its Oriental-looking turban domes, the cathedral is in fact the culmination in brick of a wholly Russian style that had been developed in building wooden churches.
16:30 Return to the hotel
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
3 day. Moscow
9:00 Pick up at the hotel
Visit SergievPosad
Sergiev Posad is the town around the Trinity Monastery of St.Sergius (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra), one of Russia’s most important religious and historical landmarks and a place of both spiritual and nationalist pilgrimage. It is 60 km from the edge of Moscow on the Yaroslavl road. The Monastery was founded in about 1340 by Sergius of Radonezh, a monk who wielded enough moral authority to unite the country against Mongol Tatar.
TRINITY CATHEDRAL (Troitsky sobor), built in the 1420s, is a heart of the monastery and in its way the heart of Russian Orthodoxy. Most of the icons are by the great medieval painter Andrey Rublyov.
13:00 Lunch at the local restaurant
16:00 Return to the hotel
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
OPTION for the evening
18:00 Pick up at the hotel
19:00 Circus Performance
22:30 End at the hotel
4 day. Moscow
9:00 Pick up at the hotel
10:00 Visit Tretyakov Gallery
It is national art museum, one of the most outstanding museums in the World. The Gallery was founded by P.Tretyakov, Moscow merchant and textile manufacturer, and it was named after him. In 1892, Tretyakov gave his collection (about 1800 works) as a gift to Moscow City and the Gallery turned into the city’s museum. In the Soviet period, the collection grew up to 100 000 works. All the periods f Russian art from 10th up to early 20th cenrury are presented in 62 halls of the Gallery.
13:30 Lunch at the local restaurant
15.00 Transfer to the railway station
16:30 (19:25) Departure to St. Petersburg by train "Sapsan" 162 (164)
20:40 (23:19) Arrival in ST. Petersburg. Meet & greet. Transfer to the hotel. Check in.
5 day. St Petersburg
10:00 St Petersburg guided city-tour
You will be introduced to the greatest marvel of Russia’s past & present, known to the world at the “Northern Capital of Russia” &“ The Venice of the North”. St Petersburg downtown dazzles the eye of a visitor with splendid palaces, stylish monuments, straight avenues, beautiful bridges.
St Petersburg is filled with history & mystery. Your tour will cover all of the highlights of the city, we will drive along the Nevsky avenue – the heart of the city and make picture stops at the Spit of the Basil Island, the Senates Square and the St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the Art Square and the Russian museum as well we at the two magnificent churches: Our Savior of the Spilt Blood & the Nikolsky Cathedral.
13:00 Lunch at the local restaurant
15:30 Return to the hotel
OPTION
16:00 Pick up at the hotel
16:30 Rivers & canals of St. Petersburg
18:30 Return to the hotel
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
6 day. St Petersburg
10:00 Pick up at the hotel
11:00 Visit Hermitage museum
The Hermitage, as its name suggests, is a solitary place, the dwelling of a hermit. The Hermitage does in fact occupy several buildings in addition to the Winter Palace. There is the Little Hermitage which houses Catherine’s original collection, the Old Hermitage which was specially built to provide space for Catherine the Great’s growing collection, the Hermitage Theater which was Catherine the Great’s private theater linked with the Old Hermitage by a small bridge and a new Hermitage built in 1839 to house more works of art. Today it’s one of the world’s largest museums, which contains works of art by Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, French impressionists. The collection of the museum numbers over 3 million items and displayed in 400 halls of the museum.
14:30 Lunch at the local restaurant
17:00 Return to the hotel
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
OPTION for evening
18:00 Pick up at the hotel
19:00 Ballet performance in the Hermitage Theater
22:30 Return to the hotel
7 day. St Petersburg
Check out
9:00 Pick up at the hotel
10:00 Visit Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo) including visit Catherine Palace & park
Tsarskoye Selo (formerly known as Pushkin) is one of St. Petersburg's numerous Imperial estates. Located just 25 kilometres south of the city, the estate boasts a large landscape park, dotted with architectural follies, and centred on the magnificent blue, white and gold Catherine Palace. The Catherine Palace houses some beautiful Baroque interiors, including the luxurious Grand Hall, a long, gold, mirrored ballroom. The Palace also boasts a unique Amber Room, whose priceless amber panels were stolen by Nazi troops during WWII, but which are now being painstakingly recreated by Russian craftsmen.
Tsarskoye Selo boasts almost 600 hectares of beautiful parkland. In front of the Catherine Palace visitors can enjoy formal gardens with finely trimmed trees and bushes, geometrically designed flowerbeds and fine marble statues.
12:30 Lunch at the restaurant
14:00 Transfer to the airport. Departure.
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