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Day 1: Arrival in Moscow. Meeting at the airport. Dinner. Transfer to the hotel.
Day 2: Breakfast at the hotel. Sightseeing tour round Moscow. The Revolution square with the monument to Karl Marx. At the end of the XIX century, the Russia Society built a new many-storied house in the north side of the Lubyanka square. From 1918, the VChK committee (the KGB’s ancestor) was based here. In the 1990’s the monument to the victims of communist terror was built in the park near Polytechnic museum. It is a huge granite boulder brought from the Solovetsky Island, where one of the cruelest Soviet concentration camps was situated.
Metro excursion. Late lunch.
Day 3: Breakfast at the hotel. An excursion to the Red Square and the Lenin’s Mausoleum. Late lunch.
Day 4: Breakfast at the hotel. Check out. An excursion to the Church of the Christ the Savior and All Russian Exhibition Complex. In December 1931 the Cathedral was destroyed by Stalin’s orders. His ambition was to build a stupendous, 480-meter-tall Palace of Soviets here. The construction began in 1939. The Second World War interrupted it. In 1960, an open-air pool was built using the foundation laid for the Cathedral. The construction of Cathedral began in 1995 and was completed in 2000. The All-Union Economic Achievements Exhibition was organized in 1939. 250 fundamental pavilions, fountains decorated with many gilded figures, numerous cafes and restaurants were to demonstrate various prospects of the future life under Communism to the visitors to the Exhibition. This grandiose myth was put into life. A huge sculpture, The Worker and the Collective Farm Woman, was installed in front of the entrance to the Exhibition.
Dinner. Transfer to the railway-station. Train to Saint-Petersburg.
Day 5: Arrival in Saint-Petersburg. Breakfast. Sightseeing tour round Petersburg. On January 24, 1924, three days after the Lenin's death, Petrograd was renamed into Leningrad in his honor. The central committee's reason for renaming the city again was that Lenin had led the October revolution. Deeper reasons existed at the level of political symbolism: Saint Petersburg had stood as the head of the Tsarist empire.
Late lunch. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation.
Day 6: Breakfast at the hotel. An Excursion to the Winter Palace. Located on the bank of the Neva River, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia was built between 1754 and 1762 as the winter residence of the Russian tsars. Designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the Baroque-style, green-and-white palace has 1786 doors and 1945 windows. Catherine the Great was its first royal lodger. The Palace is now part of a group of magnificent buildings that is called the State Hermitage Museum which holds one of the world's greatest collections of art. As part of the Museum, many of the Winter Palace's 1057 halls and rooms are open to the public. After the February Revolution in Russia, the Winter Palace was the headquarters of the Russian Provisional Government. The assault of the Winter Palace by Bolshevik forces was the official milestone of the October Revolution.
Late lunch.
Day 7: Breakfast at the hotel. Excursion to the Cruiser Avrora. In 1917 the Aurora's crew took an active part in the February and October revolutionary activities and the Civil War repulsing international intervention. In 1922-1923 the cruiser Aurora became one of the first warships on the Baltic sea to be put into service as a specialized ship for training. Till 1940 students of Naval colleges did practical work on the cruiser. "The Aurora" again sailed a lot and visited foreign ports. In 1924 the cruiser was awarded the Red Banner of the USSR Central Committee and in 1927 decorated with the order of Red Banner.
Late lunch.
Day 8: Breakfast at the hotel. Check out. Transfer to the airport. |
