Weekend in Kolomna

For those who plan to relax in Kolomna for a few days, we offer a package "Weekend in Kolomna". A feature of this package is a combination of excursion programs with tasting of Kolomna gastronomic products, as well as comfortable accommodation in the center of Kolomna and accompanying a guide "door to door".

The most interesting museums and excursions are waiting for you: the Kolomenskaya Pastila Museum, the Art-Communalka Museum. Erofeev and others, the museum “Kalachaya”, excursions to the Kolomna Kremlin and Posad, the museum “Forges’ Sloboda”, the museum “Trade with soap G. Suranov”.

Day 1

14:00 – check-in to the hotel “Kolomna”

14:30 – meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby, going on a tour of the Kolomna Kremlin (walking)

You will get acquainted with the main attraction of the city - the Kolomna Kremlin, the most important historical and cultural monument of Kolomna XIV - XIX centuries. This tour is a journey where more and more pages of the history of the city will open before you. You will not only learn about the grandiose construction of the Kremlin and its features, but also walk around its territory, appreciating the power and beauty of the preserved towers and spindles. Visit the Brussen convent, whose history is associated with the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. You will visit the Cathedral Square (with the monastery and temples), headed by the magnificent Assumption Cathedral, which keeps the memory of the exploits of Dmitry Donskoy. You will learn about the queen-sorcerer, the state library, and other legends, and in conclusion examine the main gate of the Kremlin – Pyatnitsky.

16:00 – visit to the museum “Kalachnaya” with tasting and tea

A small building of the XIX century, just outside the Friday Gate. Kolomna kalachs are baked here. During the tour, you will learn a lot of interesting things about the “figure” of this product: how to “order a lip”, eat a “belly” and “walk to the handle”. The museum has revived the long-forgotten old urban kala fishing: from cooking hop leaven, “mixture of torments”, creating and cutting dough on the ice table to baking. Kalachi are baked in a two-pood stove reconstructed according to ancient drawings of General Wasmund, which was sank with birch wood without bark to give the kalach a special whiteness. During the tour, you will try kalach with heat from the heat, lubricating it with oil and drinking strong tea.

17:00 – visit to the museum “Soap Trade G. Suranov”

You will get acquainted with the hygienic traditions of men’s and women’s toilets, learn how to curl a mustache, apply fixtures and how better to powder your nose, touch the mystery of creating great perfume creations of pre-revolutionary Russia. We will tell you about all stages of soap production, starting with the purchase of ingredients and ending with packaging and the art of selling in a perfume shop. And of course, you will find wonderful aromas of a bygone era and our unique collection of original soap and perfumes of the late XIX – early XX century, a master class on packaging and a souvenir gift.

18:00 – completion of the program.

Day 2

09:30 – meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby. Going on a walking tour of Kolomna Posad

Posad is a territory outside the fortress walls. Kolomna Posad is a whole world filled with stories, fates, unusual architectural buildings, amazing temples, a special way of life. People of great heart and deep faith lived here. Numerous temples, charitable and educational institutions, shelters, hospitals and almshouses were built here.

11:00 – visit the museum of lost taste “Colomenskaya Pastila” with tasting and tea drinking

In the ancient wooden house of the merchant Suranov, located in the heart of ancient Posad, there is a one-of-a-kind Pastil Museum in Kolomna, where charming ladies in mussel dresses invite guests to tea, serve various varieties of pastilles and start a leisurely conversation about the traditions of antiquity. Here you can find a lot of useful information about the history and technology of production of the famous apple lozenges, in the 18-19 centuries glorified modest suburban town, personally participate in the appetizing process and take away a couple of boxes, say, Dostoevsky's pastiles.

12:30 - Excursion in the museum-residence "Artkommunalka". Erofeev and others" + lunch in Soviet style

Former apartment house. Second floor. '60s. A communal apartment where six families live. On the first floor of the house there is a food store “Ogonek”. Here in the wine department works as a loader Venechka Erofeev, the author of the famous poem “Moscow – Petushki”... Now it's a new art space. Not just a museum of Soviet life with the smell of “Shipra”, “Red Moscow”, with the taste of herring “Karl Marx”, sprinkled with a beam, to the sounds of radio stations, but also an art residence for artists and writers who create here and now new art, and literature. In the art communal read poems, hold concerts, arrange exhibitions, and here can easily levitate potatoes under the ceiling.

14:00 – visit to the Museum “Forge Sloboda”

The museum – a workshop of blacksmithing craftsmanship contains a unique collection of Russian blacksmith crafts, collected by Ilya Lebedev over the years. The museum collection includes more than 6000 exhibits. All these things have been collected for over a decade. The collection allows you to trace the development of blacksmithing over many centuries, demonstrates a wide range of monuments related to the history of the Kolomna region, as well as a large number of items of traditional peasant life. Many exhibits of the collection are unique, and the collection itself has no analogues in Russia.

15:00 – completion of the program

The cost of the program includes:

• Accommodation in the hotel "Kolomna", room category "Standard". Two-seater
  Additional food is paid (breakfast portion or "buffet")

• excursions to the Kolomna Kremlin and Posad
• entrance tickets to all museums, according to the program
• tastings in the museums "Kalachnaya" and "Kolomenska Pastila", a Soviet lunch in the Museum "Artkommunalka". Erofeev and others”