Pskov - Veliky Novgorod from Moscow

Dates of arrival:

30.04.2021

28.05.2021

18.06.2021

09.07.2021 23.07.2021

06.08.2021 20.08.2021

03.09.2021 24.09.2021

Fridays: Pskov – Izborsk – Pechori – Pushkin Mountains – Veliky Novgorod

 

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 18:30 – transfer to the hotel, accommodation in rooms. 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. Room release. Get on the bus with luggage.

09:00 – 13:00 – moving to Veliky Novgorod (210 km). Track tour.

13:00 – 14:00 – excursion to the Museum of wooden architecture “Vitoslavlitsa”.

"Vitoslavlitsy" - one of the most interesting museums of folk wooden architecture - is located 4 kilometers from Veliky Novgorod, in a picturesque area on the shore of Lake Myachino near the Yuriev Monastery. The museum is located on the territory of the former noble estate of Semevsky - A. A. Orlova-Chesmenskaya (the first half of the XIX century), better known as the "Orlov manor". Now the museum contains the best preserved samples of folk wooden architecture. Among them are typical peasant estates, a village forge and stable, a barn and a bath, wooden temples and a bell tower. In the monuments of wooden architecture there are expositions and exhibitions. You will see some of them during the tour.

14:30 – 15:30 – lunch in a cafe in the city center.

15:30 – 17:30 – Theatrical tour of the Novgorod Kremlin and Yaroslavl Palace with Agafia Melisentovna.

During a theatrical tour accompanied by a medieval character, you will get acquainted with the main attractions of the city. You will see the St. Sophia Cathedral, the belfry of the St. Sophia Cathedral, the monument "Millennium of Russia", the Vladychny Dvor, temples of the XII - XV centuries, the Novgorod print, the Hanseatic fountain. You will learn about the deeds of Vladimir Krasna Sunny, Yaroslav the Wise, Alexander Yaroslavich Horobrogo, nicknamed by the descendants of Nevsky, Tsar Ivan the Great and the grandson of his Tsar Grozny.

17:30 – 20:00 – free time in the city center.

20:00 – transfer to the railway station of Veliky Novgorod. Free time.

21:20 – departure of train No042H Veliky Novgorod – 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):	300 rubles. 800 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	13 750	13.300	15,300	Comprehensive
Olginskaya 2* standard	14 900	13,550	15,800	Comprehensive
Colossus 3*	15,700	13 750	18,700	Comprehensive
Gold Promenade 3*	15 750	12,800	18,950	Comprehensive
Pokrovsky 4 * attic without access to Spa – zone	16,950	15,000	20 800	The buffet
Pokrovsky 4 * Standard with access to Spa – zone	17 750	15,000	22.	The buffet
Podznoev's court 3 * (Studio building and apartments) Without access to Spa - zone	17,500	14,950	21 800	The buffet
Podznoev's courtyard 4 * (main building)	18,600	14,950	23.	The buffet
Old Estate 4 *	18,600	14,950	23.	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), excursion program in Veliky Novgorod, excursion to the Pushkin Mountains, bus and walking tour of Pskov, excursion to Izborsk and Pechora, entrance tickets to paid facilities, food package: 3 breakfasts + 3 lunches, transfers under the program.

It is necessary to purchase railway tickets yourself:

• Moscow – Pskov brand train No. 010
• V. Novgorod – Moscow train No. 042H