Legendary village of poets and writers Peredelkino 16 +

Peredelkino Part 2 16 +

Russia was the most read country in the world. Those days have passed, but today literature is one of the main national treasures. And the main source of literary treasures is a 25-minute drive from the Kiev station, in the well-known writer’s village of Peredelkino.

Peredelkino is a place of rest, creative insight, personal dramas and bright literary events The famous writer’s country village dr is still a place of rest and creative inspiration of artists, and attracts many here.

Here lived, visited: A. Rybakov, M. Aliger, Y. Levitansky, K. Paustovsky, A. Dovzhenko, B. Pasternak, K. Chukovsky, F. Iskander, C. Aitmatov and many others.

In Peredelkino, N. Zabolotsky translated “The Word about Igor’s Regiment”, B. Pasternak wrote “Doctor Zhivago” and “The Quiet Forest”, K. Simonov – “Wait for me, and I will return”, and the meeting of the future dir. Andrei Tarkovsky and his father, poet Arseny Tarkovsky formed the basis of the film “Mirror”.

You will know:

• origin version of the village name
• What was here before and who had the idea to build writer’s cottages near Moscow;
• at whose dacha one could see the creative avant-garde of the 1960-1970s - ballerina M. Plisetskaya, bard V. Vysotsky,
• who, seeking to create beauty, loved to plant apple trees and cherries,
• whose poems turned into a song that sounds in the film by V. Menshov “Moscow does not believe in tears”,
• who charmed the German film star Marlene Dietrich and saved the theater on Taganka,
• Why did Anatoly Rybakov not like the goats of Margarita Aliger?
• Which street of the village was popularly called the “creative dead end” and why,
• with whom he played billiards V. Vysotsky, coming to the House of Creativity,
• Who saved 116 wooden churches in Karelia from demolition
• who, according to Andrei Bitov, "drinks to the bottom" Peredelkino landscape,
• Who was called the “Abkhaz Mark Twain”
• And much more.

In the travel program:

• We will see the house where the singer of nature lived – Konstantin Paustovsky.
• Let's look at Chingiz Aitmatov's dacha
• pass by the dacha of the most prolific Soviet playwright Alexei Arbuzov,
• visit the house-museum of Korney Chukovsky;
• Visit the house-museum of Boris Pasternak
• Let's go to B. Pasternak Square.
• Let’s see what the house looks like after the restoration.
• And much more.

Meeting place: At the Michurinets railway station, to which everyone gets on their own! (electric train, car). The station can be reached by train from the Kiev station in 25 minutes. The ticket for the train is purchased independently!

Route: Peredelkino village

Duration: approximately 9-10 hours. (When meeting at the railway station at 10.00 - walk approximately until 18.00-18.30).

End of the tour: railway station "Peredelkino".

Tour guide: Julia and guides from the museums of the village.

The cost of the tour: 2200R. (everybody!)

• Entrance tickets and excursion service in the house-museum of K. Chukovsky (15.00-16.20) and B. Pasternak (16.30-17.30).
• Walking tour of the literary village of Peredelkino (9.30 – 18.00-18.30)

The price does not include:

1. travel from Moscow by train (25 min) to the Michurinets railway station, for pensioners, railway travel by MO is free (with a Muscovite card).
2. Lunch. Time for lunch is laid out in a walk around the village.