On the Kaluga Tract 11-12 April

Tour type: Weekend Tours Country: Golden Ring of Russia Cities: Kaluga, Kozelsk Hotel: Kaluga, hotel Duration: 2 days/1 night Date: from 21.03.2009 to 09.05.2009 Cost: from 4490 rubles. Tour type: Weekend Tours Country: Golden Ring of Russia Cities: Kaluga, Kozelsk Hotel: Kaluga, hotel Duration: 2 days/1 night Date: from 21.03.2009 to 09.05.2009 Cost: from 4490 rubles. Borovsk-Maloyaroslavets-Kaluga-Tikhonova Pustyn-Cloth Plant-Kozelsk-Kozelsk- Lower Pimples - Optina Desert - Shamordino. Tour dates: 11-12, 18-19 April, 2-3, 9-10 May, 12-13, 27-28 June, 18-19 July, 1-2, 22-23 August, 19-20 September, 10-11, 24-25 October 2009. Two days full of touches to the most tragic periods of Russian history. Introducing to the great spirituality of the Optina elders. Lyrical pages of relations between A.S. Pushkin and N.S. Goncharova 1st day. 07:45. Group gathering on the subway station Southwest (behind McDonald's). 8:00 Departure, guided tour. Arrival in Borovsk, sightseeing tour of the city, inspection of the chapel of the boyar Morozova, a visit to the ancient fortress monastery of Pafnutiy Borovskiy (XV century). Moving to Maloyaroslavets – sightseeing tour, inspection of the Nikolaev Chernoostrovsk monastery, war square of 1812. Lunch at the restaurant. Moving to the Clothworks. Visit to the Goncharovs' estate museum. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the ancestor of the Goncharov family - Afanasy Abramovich Goncharov founded sailing and paper manufactories here. Later this place was visited by A. S. Pushkin. Sightseeing tour of Kaluga. Dinner. Accommodation in a hotel in Kaluga. Day 2. 9:00. Breakfast, room vacancy. Departure for an excursion to Kozelsk, a city that entered the history of the Russian state thanks to the unprecedented heroism of its inhabitants, who resisted the thousands of troops of Batu Khan in 1238. A visit to the Holy Vedensky Optina of the Desert, which became in the middle of the XIX century one of the spiritual centers of Russia. It was here that the elders came: the brothers Kireevsky, N. V. Gogol, V. A. Zhukovsky, F. I. Tyutchev, I. S. Turgenev, P. A. Vyazemsky, F. M. Dostoevsky and many others. Lunch at the café. Visit to the temple of the Transfiguration in the village of N. Pryski. Classic Russian manor temple. Excursion to the Holy Ambrose convent in the village of Shamordino. This is a real miracle of architecture... the majestic 15-domed cathedral, resembling a palace from a Russian fairy tale, amazes with its size, and at the same time with elegance; a visit to the holy spring and the necropolis, where M. N. Tolstoy, the sister of L. N. Tolstoy, is buried. Remove. The cost of the tour for 1 person - accommodation in the hotel "Oka" 2-bed room Child / Adult 3rd in the room Supplement for 1-bed accommodation 4490 4390 750 Tour cost per 1 person - accommodation in the hotel "Kaluga XXI century" 2-bed room Child / Adult 3rd in the room Supplement for 1-bed accommodation 5090 4790 1000 Included: accommodation in the hotel, meals (2 lunches, dinner, breakfast), tour guide services, entrance tickets to the museums (program service in the tour group 18). NOTE: When visiting monasteries, it is customary for women to wear a skirt (below the knees) and with their head covered. A container for holy water can be taken with you or purchased on the territory of the monastery. In hot weather, the arms and shoulders should be closed. The company reserves the right to change the procedure for conducting excursions, and if it is impossible to conduct any excursion, replace it with an equivalent one, without reducing the total scope of the program. The time of departure / arrival in Moscow is indicative and cannot be considered a mandatory item of the program.