The Time Machine from Moscow

Dates of arrival:

07.05.2021 21.05.2021

11.06.2021 25.06.2021

16.07.2021

13.08.2021 27.08.2021

10.09.2021

01.10.2021

Fridays: Pskov – Izborsk – Pechori – Pushkin Mountains – Island

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 – 09:00 – breakfast in the cafe.

09:00 – 11:30 – 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.

Saturday

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

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

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.

A resurrection.

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

Until 10:30 - free time. Room release. Get on the bus with luggage.

10:30 – departure for an excursion to the city of Ostrov.

The island is an ancient Russian city, first mentioned in the chronicle in 1341. Today, the main attraction and symbol of the city are the unique chain bridges over the Great River, built in 1853. Also notable are the monument to Claudia Nazarova, the oldest stone building of the city - the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker in Zastenye in 1542, and the city museum of local lore.

As part of the tour, you will also visit the Stalin Line museum complex. The complex is a fortification of the late 30s of the twentieth century in the form of dots with field fortifications - trenches, dugouts, various anti-personnel and anti-tank obstacles and barriers, a collection of rare equipment, a memorial military burial.

10:30 – 11:30 – moving to the Island (60 km). Track tour.

11:30 – 14:00 – tour of the museum complex “Stalin Line”.

14:00 – 14:40 – tour of the island (suspension bridges, a monument to Claudia Nazarova, the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker).

14:50 – 15:30 – lunch in the Island.

15:30 – 16:00 – free time.

16:00 – 17:00 – excursion to the local history museum of Ostrov.

17:00 – departure to Pskov (60 km).

18:00 – 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: for retiree: for a child (from 5 to 16 years old)	250 rubles. 750 rubles.
Hotel	The cost of the tour per 1 person, taking into account the program and accommodation	Breakfast
2nd room	Additional location.	Single accommodation
harles	9,950	9,500	11,500	Comprehensive
Olginskaya 2* standard	11,050	9.700	11,950	Comprehensive
Colossus 3*	11,850	9,950	14 900	Comprehensive
Gold Promenade 3*	11,950	8,950	15 150	Comprehensive
Pokrovsky 4 * attic without access to Spa – zone	13 150	11 250	16,950	The buffet
Pokrovsky 4 * Standard with access to Spa – zone	14,000	11 250	18 200.	The buffet
Podznoev's court 3 * (Studio building and apartments) Without access to Spa - zone	13.700	11 150	18,000	The buffet
Podznoev's courtyard 4 * (main building)	14,800	11 150	19,600	The buffet
Old Estate 4 *	14,800	11 150	19,600	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, an excursion to the Island, a visit to the local history museum and the museum complex "Stalin Line" in the city of Ostrov, entrance tickets to paid facilities, a meal package: 3 breakfasts + 3 lunches, transfers under the program.

It is necessary to purchase tickets for the branded train No. 010.