From Tolstoy to Turgenev

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

1 day

• Arriving in Tula. Meeting with the representative of the Silk Road travel company.
• 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.
• Excursion to the Nikolo-Kochak necropolis" - the family tomb of the Tolstoy family. Together with the St. Nicholas Church, this necropolis is a valuable historical and cultural ensemble with three hundred years of history.
• Return to Tula. Hotel accommodation. Free time.

2 days

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby. Departure to Spasskoe-Lutovinovo (~130 km.)
• Excursion to the State Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve of I.S. Turgenev "Spasskoye-Lutovinovo". It was in Spassky that Turgenev experienced a special creative uplift and inspiration. He said, “You only write well in a Russian village.” It’s like the air is full of thoughts! Thoughts beg for themselves.” The main treasure of the museum is the priceless collection of Turgenev items that preserve the memory of the great Russian writer. Among the museums of this order, I.S. Turgenev Museum is one of the few, where the collection almost entirely consists of genuine things that previously belonged to the ancestors of the writer and to him personally. These things that surrounded Turgenev in his Spassky house were not only witnesses of the writer’s creative work, but also participated in the creation of his works. The main house and buildings of the estate are surrounded by an ancient park. The park in Spaskom-Lutovinov, of course, was one of the best examples of Russian manor garden and park art of the late XVIII – early XIX centuries. The garden was laid out in English taste, with a regular park, apple orchards, greenhouses, fruit fields, labyrinths of winding snake paths. Since the founding of the park, about 2,000 century-old and two-hundred-year-old lindens, ash trees, fir trees, oak trees, silver poplars and trees of other breeds characteristic of the middle strip of Russia have been preserved.
• Departure to Turgenevo (~25 km.)
• Lunch;
• Excursion to the museum - reserve of I.S. Turgenev "Bezhin Lug". Turgenev family homestead. It was here that the great writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev created the stories “Singers”, “Date”, was started “Bezhin meadow”. During the tour, unique historical natural landscapes, sung by Turgenev, will be presented. Interesting and little-known facts from the life of the writer and his entourage will be told, which are reflected in the series of stories “Notes of the Hunter” and other works.
• A trip to Bezhin meadow, walking to the Forgiven Well and the Snow River surrounded by real natural beauty.
• End of program.