"History in Faces" from Moscow

Races to the program on Fridays until April 25, 2021.

Lyubensk – Vechasha – Pushkin Mountains – Pskov – Izborsk – Pechora

Tour programme:

Friday.

08:05 – arrival of train No. 010 at Pskov railway station. Meeting with a guide inside the railway station building (central entrance) with a sign "I am PSKOV".

08:15 – 09:30 – Breakfast in the cafe.

09:30 – departure for a tour of the estates of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov.

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.

After 17:30 transfer to the hotel. Room accommodation. Free time.

Saturday

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.

Sunday

08:00 – 09:00 – breakfast at the hotel. Room release. Get on the bus with luggage.

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).

18:30 – arrival in Pskov, transfer to the railway station.

19:30 – departure of the company train No. 010 Pskov – Moscow.

 

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

Discount for all types of accommodation: Retirement discount: Discount per child (from 5 to 16 years):	250 rubles. 700 rubles.
Hotel	The cost of the tour per room, taking into account the program and accommodation	Breakfast
1⁄2 room	Additional location.	Single accommodation
harles	9 750	9.300	11 300	Comprehensive
Olginsk standard	10 900	9,550	11,800	Comprehensive
Colossus 3*	11,700	9 750	14,700	Comprehensive
Gold Promenade 3*	11,750	9,500	14,950	Comprehensive
Pokrovsky 4 * attic without access to Spa – zone	13.700	12,000	18,000	The buffet
Pokrovsky 4 * Standard with access to Spa – zone	15,000	12,000	20 200.	The buffet
Podznoev's court 3 * (Studio building and apartments) Without access to Spa - zone	14 250	11,000	19,200	The buffet
Podznoev's courtyard 4 * (main building)	16,000	11,500	21 200	The buffet
Old Estate 4 *	16,000	11,500	21 200	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 tour of the estates of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, an excursion to the Pushkin Mountains, a bus and walking tour of Pskov, an excursion to Izborsk and Pechora, entrance tickets to paid facilities, a meal package: 3 breakfasts + 3 lunches, transfers under the program.