The Great Pskov Encyclopedia until April 25 from St. Petersburg

Dates of arrival: from 28.01.2021 to 25.04. 2021

Mondays: Pskov – Izborsk – Pechori – Pushkin Mountains – Island – estates of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov

Wednesdays: Pskov – Island – estates of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov – Pushkin Mountains – Pskov – Izborsk – Pechora

1 day

Arrival at the Pskov railway station:

10:25 – train No. 809 “Swallow”

Meeting with a guide inside the railway station building (central entrance) with a sign "I am PSKOV". Transfer to the hotel.

17:10 – train No. 813 “Swallow”

Meeting with a guide inside the railway station building (central entrance) with a sign "I am PSKOV". Transfer to the hotel.

23:45 – train No. 811 “Swallow”

Independent transfer to the hotel, meeting with the guide in the morning in the hotel lobby

03:00 – train No. 815 “Swallow”

Independent transfer to the hotel, meeting with the guide in the morning in the hotel lobby

Free day in Pskov.

2 days

08:00 – 09:00 – breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 – 11:30 – departure for a bus and walking tour of Pskov with a visit to the Kremlin: Olginsky chapel, monument to A. Nevsky on the Sokoliha mountain, the Kremlin, Dovmontov city, Vecheva Square, Trinity Cathedral.

Pskov is not only an ancient city, but also the largest fortress in Europe: the length of its fortress walls is 9 kilometers. You can appreciate the scale of the medieval city, its beauty and power on our bus and walking tour of Pskov. As part of the tour, you will find several short journeys, and a number of walking walks.

11:30 – departure for an excursion to Izborsk and Pechora.

Near Pskov, just 30 kilometers away, is the village of Stary Izborsk. By the way, in the Middle Ages, Izborsk was a large city through which trade routes passed, and was one of the 10 oldest cities of Russia (the first mention of Izborsk in the chronicle dates back to 862). 20 kilometers from Izborsk, on the very border of Russia, there is a pearl of the Pskov land - the Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersk Monastery. It is the only monastery in the whole of Russia, where the service has been going on continuously since 1473. The monastery operated both in the years of Soviet power and during the Great Patriotic War. But our monastery is not only a holy monastery, but also a fortress that fought from the time of Ivan the Terrible to the time of Peter I.

11:30 – 12:00 – transfer to Izborsk (30 km). Track tour.

12:00 – 14:00 – excursion to Izborsk (Izborsk fortress of XIV-XVI centuries, Slovenian keys).

14:00 – 14:30 – moving to Pechora (20 km). Track tour.

14:30 – 15:15 – lunch in Pechora.

15:30 – 17:15 – visit to the Pskov-Pechersk monastery. Tour, free time.

17:30 – Departure to Pskov (52 km).

After 18:00 - transfer to the hotel. Room accommodation. Free time.

3 days

08:00 – 09:00 – breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 – departure for an excursion to the Pushkin Mountains.

“I visited again...” wrote Alexander Pushkin, re-enjoying the beauty of his family estate and mourning how fleeting time is.

It is impossible to visit the Pskov land and feel it until the end without visiting the unique historical, literary and natural landscape museum-reserve named after A.S. Pushkin. Here, in his father’s land, Pushkin received an impetus to all his work in the future. The Pushkin Mountains were for the great poet a home, an office, a haven of calm, work and inspiration. We will visit the “poet’s disgraced house” in Mikhailovsky, the last refuge of the great Russian genius – his grave near the walls of the Assumption Church of the Svyatogorsk Monastery, as well as the estate of Alexander Sergeevich’s closest friends, the Osipov-Wulf family, the “house of the Larins” in Trigorsky.

09:00 – 11:00 – transfer to the Pushkin Mountains (120 km). Track tour.

11:00 – 13:00 – excursion to the Mikhailovsky estate.

13:15 – 14:00 – excursion to the Svyatogorsk monastery with a visit to the grave of A.S. Pushkin.

14:15 – 15:00 – lunch in the Pushkin Mountains.

15:30 – 17:30 – tour of the Trigorskoye estate.

17:30 – departure to Pskov (120 km).

After 19:00 – transfer to the hotel. Free time.

4 days

08:00 – 09:00 – breakfast at the hotel.

09:30 – departure for an excursion to the city of Ostrov.

The island is an ancient Russian city, first mentioned in the chronicle in 1341. Because of the border situation, this city was destined to become an outpost in the south of the Pskov Republic and for many years to restrain the onslaught of the Livonian Order, and in the XX century to fiercely resist the invasion of fascist invaders, because in the 30s of the last century, the “Stalin Line” ran near the Island, consisting of bunkers with anti-tank and anti-personnel obstacles, trenches and dugouts. Today it is a museum complex with a memorial military burial, where in addition to fortifications you can see a collection of rare military equipment.

The main attraction and symbol of the city, by right, are the unique chain bridges over the Great River, built in 1853. In addition, during the tour of the city, we will see the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker - the oldest stone building in the Island, a monument to Claudia Nazarova, visit the city museum of local lore.

09:30 – 10:30 – moving to the Island (60 km). Track tour.

10:30 – 13:00 – tour of the museum complex “Stalin Line”.

13:00 – 13:40 – tour of the island (suspension bridges, a monument to Claudia Nazarova, the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker).

13:50 – 14:30 – lunch in the Island.

14:30 – 15:00 – free time.

15:00 – 16:00 – excursion to the local history museum of Ostrov.

16:00 – departure to Pskov (60 km).

After 17:00 - transfer to the hotel. Free time.

5 days

08:00 – 09:00 – breakfast at the hotel. Room release.

09:30 – departure for a tour of the estates of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Get on the bus with luggage.

Today, the former estates of Lyubensk and Vechash are part of the memorial museum-estate of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov. For six years, the composer’s family rented the estate of Vechash as a dacha, and then Nikolai Andreevich purchased the estate of Lyubensk, in the Pskov lands that he loved so much. It is here that the great composer will write the famous operas: Sadko, The Night Before Christmas, The Tale of Tsar Saltan and The Golden Cockerel.

09:30 – 11:00 – moving to Vechash (107 km). Track tour.

11:00 – 12:30 – tour of the memorial house-museum of Rimsky-Korsakov in Vechash.

13:00 – 14:30 – tour of the memorial house-museum of Rimsky-Korsakov in Lubenska.

15:00 – 16:30 – moving to Pskov (107 km).

16:45 – 17:30 – late lunch in Pskov.

17:30 – transfer to the railway station.

19:32 – departure of train No. 812 “Swallow” to St. Petersburg.

 

The cost of the tour for 1 person, taking into account the program and accommodation:

Discount for all types of accommodation: Retirement discount: Discount for a child (from 5 to 16 years):	300 rubles. 750 rubles.
Hotel	The cost of the tour per 1 person, taking into account the program and accommodation	Breakfast
1⁄2 room	Additional location.	Single accommodation
harles	14 200.	13.300	17 300	Comprehensive
Olginskaya 2* standard	16.	13 750	18,300	Comprehensive
Colossus 3*	18,000	14 200.	24 100.	Comprehensive
Gold Promenade 3*	18 200.	12 300	24,600	Comprehensive
Pokrovsky 4 * loftless Spa area	20 800	17 100.	28,550	The buffet
Pokrovsky 4 * standard Spa - zone	22 450	17 100.	30,950	The buffet
Podznoev's court 3 * (Studio building and apartments) Without access to Spa - zone	21 900	16,200	30 600	The buffet
Courtyard Podznoev 4* (main building)	24 200.	16,200	33 750	The buffet
Old Estate 4 *	24 200.	16,200	33 750	The buffet

The cost of the tour includes: meeting and seeing off at the railway station, accommodation in the hotel (number of the selected category), a bus and walking tour of Pskov, an excursion to Izborsk and Pechora, an excursion to the Pushkin Mountains, a tour of the Rimsky-Korsakov estates, an excursion to the Island, a visit to the local history museum and the Stalin Line museum complex in Ostrov, entrance tickets to paid facilities, a meal package: 4 breakfasts + 4 lunches, transfers under the program.