From Tolstoy to Yesenin

The program introduces family estates and the life of two great writers - Tolstoy and Yesenin

1 day

• Arriving in Tula. Meeting with the representative of the Silk Road travel company.
• Sightseeing tour of Tula. Excursion to the museum - the estate "Yasnaya Polyana" - to one of the most famous museums in the world, where the spirit of the great writer still lives, and the traditions of his family are maintained. In Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoy was born, lived most of his life, here he is buried.
• Lunch;
• Excursion to the historical railway station Kozlov Zaseka, reconstructed in the image of 1910, the last year of L.N. Tolstoy's life and the exposition "Tolstoy Railway", inspection of the existing ancient station hall.
• Return to Tula. Hotel accommodation. Free time.

2 days

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby. Departure to Ryazan (~184 km.)
• Sightseeing tour of Ryazan with a visit to the Ryazan Kremlin is the historical center of the city, a pearl of Russian architecture, a monument of the historical landscape and a favorite place of residents and guests of the city.
• Lunch;
• Departure to the village of Konstantinovo (~45 km.), which for four centuries stands on the high bank of the Oka River. Here the historical appearance of the village is preserved, this unique place makes it possible to understand and feel the color of the Russian village of the early twentieth century, which S. A. Yesenin sang in his poems.
• Excursion to the Esenin estate and literary exposition. It is with this place that the Yesenin poetic image of the “golden log hut” is associated. The exposition of the house takes us to the 20s, when, being a famous poet throughout Russia, Sergei Yesenin came to his parents' home to relax here with a exhausted soul.
• Return to Tula.
• End of program.