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1st day:
8.00 a.m. – meeting in the railway station, transfer to the village of Sizma
10.00 a.m. -04.00 p.m. -Sizma-based program.
- Meeting with bread and salt according to an ancient custom, breakfast.
- Excursion to the Nikolsky temple.
- A visit to the belfry where the guest will have a unique possibility to listen to the ding concert and ring the bell
- A visit to the regional museum, the museum of the craft arts and the Sizma dialect.
- Lunch is served in the Russian furnace in the guest house (you can taste the Russian Homemade Beer)
- A visit to the centre of the folk crafts where there is a chance to take a part in the souvenirs making.
- There is also a Game program that depends on the ageof the tourists
- A visit to Malaya Sizma and the saint spring of Panteleimon the Healer.
04.00 p.m. – transfer to the city of Belozersk, road information.
06.00 p.m. – arrival in the city of Belozersk, hotel accommodation, dinner, free time.
2nd day:
9.00 a,m. – breakfast in the cafe
9.30 a.m. – 01.30 p.m.– an excursion program: City’s bulwark with the visit to the Preobrazhensky cathedral, “Duke’s room for guards” (you can also taste the Russian beer there), “Russian peasant’s log hut”
01.30 p.m.– – lunch in the cafe
02.00 p.m. – transfer to the city of Kirillov
03.00 p.m. – accommodation in the tourist centre “Siverskaya”
03.30 p.m. – an excursion to the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery
05.30 p.m. – return to the tourist centre, free time
08.00 p.m. – dinner, Russian bath
3rd day:
09.00 a.m. – breakfast in the cafe
10.00 a,m. – 01.00 p.m. – a visit to the Ferapontov monastery ( frescoes of Dionisy 15th century)
01.00 p.m. –03.00 p.m. transfer to the city of Vologda with the visit to the outdoor museum of wooden architecture in the village of Semenkovo
03.00 p.m. – lunch, hotel accommodation
04.00 p.m. - 06.00 p.m. – the yards of the Vologda Kremlin with the visit to an exhibition of the “Artistic crafts of the Vologda area” or the museum “The World of lost things”
07.00 p.m. – dinner
07.30 p.m. - 09.00 p.m. – free time
4th day:
08.00 a.m.– breakfast in the cafe, check out
09.00 a.m. – transfer to the city of Totma
12.00 noon – arrival in the city of Totma. Totma-based program
The city sight-seeing tour with the visit to the Spaso-Sumorin monastery.
A visit to the regional museum (the exhibition of the different materials relating the history, ethnographyand nature of the area). The collections of paintings, sculptures, itemsof the decorative and applied arts are of the great interest. One of the best exhibitionsrepresents the specimens of items of “Peter handicraft school”).
Lunch, hotel accommodation.
A visit to the museum of the church antiquity. (The museum is located in the building of the Uspenskaya church. The museum’s exposition representssome monuments of the northern Russian icon-painting of the 15-16 centuries, wooden temple sculpture of the 18 century, copper small items, facial needlework, cult objects).
A visit to the museum of sailors. (The museum is located in the one of the city’s most beautiful temples – Vkhodoierusalimskaya church. The exposition represents the history of the Totma-based navigation – documents, pictures, naval devices) or a visit to the house-museum of I. Kuskov(the exposition is devoted to the life and activity of Totma-based sailor I. Kuskov, who was an assistant of the commander-in-chief of the Russian and American campaign, researcher of the northern and western coasts of the Northern California).
07.00 p.m. – dinner in the restaurant, leisure time.
5th day:
08.00 a.m.– breakfast, check-out
09.00 a.m. – departure for Great Ustiug
02.00 p.m. – arrival in the city ofGreat Ustiug. Service program:
- lunch in the restaurant
- transfer to Turovets, a holy place, where the image of the God’s Mother is painted not by a human hand, you will see the wonder-working icon and you may take a dip in the holy waters of the river Turovikha and drink water from the curative spring.
- A visit to the churchof God’s Mother Assumption, the temple of Epiphany and Nicholas the Wonder-worker.
- The city sight-seeing tour (the attraction of an ancient settlement of the 12-16 centuries, old mansions situated on the embankment of the river Sukhona, the cathedral of Prokopiy the Holy of the 17 century, the Cathedral yard, the cathedral complex of Mikailo-Arkhangelsky monastery of 1653, the Preobrazhenskaya church of the 18 century). A visit to the belfry of Uspensky cathedral (you can admire a birds-eye-view of the city)
- Free time
- dinner in the restaurant
6th day:
09.00 a.m. – breakfast. The G. Ustiug-based program goes on.
- Transfer to the village of Morozovitsa to the former Troetse-Gledensky monastery (12 centurywhere a beautiful wooden iconostasis of the 18 centuryis preserved).
- A visit to the Dimkovskaya village. You may see the city of G. Ustiug from the opposite side of the river Sukhona, and visit the former churches of Dmitry Solunsky (1700-1708) and Sergey Radonezhsky (1739-1747)
- lunch
- Excursions on the route “Great Ustiug – The Motherlandof the Russian Father The Frost (a visit to the city’s residence of Father The Frost: in the throne hallyou will meet the Fairy of Good Affairs who will tell about the Museum of Father The Frost. The guests will be able to read Father’s The Frost Correspondence –children’s letters. There is also a Shop of Father The Frost where you can buy some works of the famous artists of the Russian North, the land of Vologda and Ustiug. In the shop of Father The Frost one can make a souvenir with your own hands.
- Transfer to Patrimony. An excursion around Father’ The Frost House, where you will meet a good magician and his assistants, and drink different types of herbal teas) in the Winter garden of the Father The Frost, walk across the Path of the fairy tales, visit different attractions.
- dinner
7th day:
08.00 a.m.– Breakfast
09.00 a.m. – transfer to the city of Solvichegodsk. The city is founded in 1492; it is the residence of the famous people Stroganov.
Solvichegodsk-based program.
The city sight-seeing tour (Pearly and Salty lakes, salty spring and mineral water well, streets and old houses, the Spasoobidenskaya church.
- lunch
- Learning the city’s history, a visit to the temples (Blagoveschensky cathedral – home-based church of Stroganov of 1560-1584, the Vvedensky cathedral known for its beautiful icons of silver sets sewn with the golden sheets, precious things, and handwritten books).
- School-shop of the folk crafts (attendance of recreation classes, handiwork, a visit to the school regional museum, learning the traditional technologies of the ancient women’s trades, photography of the folk costumes)
- an excursion around the museum of the political exile of I.V. Stalin (a visit to the memorial house where I.V. Stalin lived in 1911)
05.00 p.m. – transfer to the city of G. Ustiug, dinner
07.00 p.m.– departure for the city of Moscow
Price includes: railway tickets Moscow-Vologda-Great Ustiug-Moscow a compartment,
Transport on the route, excursions (all entrance tickets), 7- breakfasts, 7- lunches, 7 – dinners), interpreters’ services for 7 days, hotel accommodation on the route, DBL-standard.
The Moscow program is extra charged (transfer airport-hotel- airport, hotel accommodation 3*** DBL-standard/B & B, excursions round Moscow with a guide – a visit to the Red Square, the Kremlin and its cathedrals, the city sight-seeing tour.
Date: May-October |
