Tula kaleidoscope

The program consists of four thematic days - "Tula secret", "And the Sich is great...", "Big servicing line", "Live, trembling threads..." and most fully reveals the history of the Tula region.

Day 1 "Tula Secret"

• Arriving in Tula. Meeting with the representative of the Silk Road travel company.
• Excursion to the museum "Tula gingerbread". In the recipe of Tula gingerbread hidden secret of cooking, which in the old days kept jealously. The recipe is a recipe, but "the most important highlight of baking gingerbread at the master in his head" - so said the famous master - gingerbread gingerbread A.M. Pavlov.
• Excursion to the Tula State Museum of Weapons. In the hands of Tula gunsmiths, even metal is literally turned into diamonds. It is all about special skill, when each face is polished to a diamond shine.
• Lunch;
• Excursion to the Museum of Tula Harmony by N.I. Beloborodov. For almost two centuries of history, Tula harmonies and bayanas have become one of the simovols of Russia, having received deserved recognition all over the world. The pride of Tulaks is the invention of chromatic harmony.
• Excursion to the museum "Tula samovars" is one of the most popular museums of the city of Tula. In the halls of the museum you can see samovars, diverse in shape, material of manufacture and size - from a huge, 70-liter buffet, to a tiny samovar for three drops of water. Visitors will get acquainted with the device of the samovar, see the most striking samples, including the samovar of the first Tula samovar factory of the Lisitsyn brothers. Addition to the exposition will be the information posted in the multimedia kiosk: visitors have the opportunity to learn about the history of the Tula Samovar Museum, as well as the manufacturers of the Fomins and Batashevs.
• Hotel accommodation. Free time.

Day 2 "And the Sich is Great"

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby.
• Excursion in the new interactive museum complex "Kulikovo Field" . Tourists begin to dive into the history of the battle in the introductory hall "Battle and Battle". In the first minutes of the inspection, he receives an answer to one of the most important questions: how does the Battle of Kulikovo differ from many other battles that took place in Russia and abroad. The history of the Battle of Kulikovo is presented in two planes by the new museum. First, the story of the battle of 1380 is based on the “Tale of Mamaev’s Battle”. Then the chronicle history is subjected to a comprehensive scientific analysis, and the Battle of Kulikovo appears before the visitor in the light of modern scientific knowledge. The information in the new museum is presented for different levels, accessible to children, and encourages further study of many scientific questions of adults. The museum tried to satisfy even the most demanding visitor who is deeply interested in the theme of the Battle of Kulikovo. For each section covering diverse views on the Battle of Kulikovo, interactive tasks and tips are thought out. You can get acquainted with the details of the battle on the interactive layout of the field - from the crossing of the Russian army through the Don to the moment of the fight.
• Visit with a tour of the memorial on the Red Hill Kulikovo field - the oldest monument of military glory of Russia: a column in honor of the Prince Dmitry Donskoy, the temple-monument of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
• Lunch;
• Excursion in the memorial complex of the village of Monastyrshchino - the legendary burial place of Russian soldiers: the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, the Alley of Memory and Unity.
• Visit to the village of Epifan, founded in 1566 on the left bank of the Don to protect against Tatar raids. Excursion to the branch of the Kulikova Field Museum-Reserve - the museum of merchant life. The Museum of Merchant Life is located in the Baibakov estate, typical of the county city of Russia of the late XIX – early XX century; includes a residential house with a living room, bedroom and study (built in 1913), a trading shop with a basement, a yard, a garden and a bath. Despite the fact that each element of the museum complex can be considered as an independent exposition, all of them together preserve the compositional unity that opens before us the complex and interesting world of the petty bourgeois of old Russia. Game tour "Visiting the merchant Baibakov" with tea. ;
• Transfer to the hotel. "" Free time.

Day 3 "Big Sealed Line"

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby.
• Tour of the Tula Kremlin, a unique complex of historical and architectural monuments. Its ensemble, in addition to the walls and towers that have not undergone significant reconstructions since the XVI century, includes two churches: the Holy Assumption Cathedral (XVIII century) and the Epiphany Cathedral (XIX century), shopping arcades (XIX century) and the building of the first city power plant.
• Go to Odoyev. "City on a good road" - this is how the name of the former county town is translated from Greek. Six centuries ago there was an important outpost, for which the Moscow state, the Golden Horde and Lithuania fought. In the 14th century, Odoev was the center of the Odoevsky principality. Having become the service city of the tsar, Odoev was included in the defensive line of the Great Seed Line. Sightseeing tour of the city. Visit with a tour of the local history museum.
• Lunch;
• Departure to Belev is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It is mentioned in the Ipatiev chronicle of 1147. In the 16th and 17th centuries. Belev was part of the defensive line in the south of the Russian state. Belev is famous for pottery, merchant products, oven tiles, lace weaving, apple pastile. Visitors will visit the Art and Local History Museum of Belev, which was founded in 1910 by the son of V.A. Zhukovsky P.V. Zhukovsky. Belev and its environs - the birthplace of V.A. Zhukovsky, P.V. Kireevsky, Z. Gippius, V.O. Kappel, S.P. Borodin
• Go to Tula. Transfer to the hotel. "" Free time.

Day 4 "Live, trembling threads ..."

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lunch;
• Visit with a tour of the Kochakovsky Necropolis - family cemetery Tolstoy, located at the St. Nicholas Church, founded in the second half of the XVII century. Yasnapolyan
  The landowners were traditionally parishioners of the Nikolsky temple - the closest to the estate. Here they baptized newborn children and buried the dead, who found the last shelter in the city.
  The family cemetery. August 29, 1828 priest Vasily Mozhaisky in Kochak was baptized Lev Nikolaevich. In diaries, notebooks and works of Tolstoy
  There are repeated references to Kochak. The main historical value of the Kochak necropolis is the graves of members of the family of L. N. Tolstoy.
• Visit to Shchekino Station, a historical and cultural complex dedicated to L.N. Tolstoy and the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812. On October 28 (or November 10 according to the new style) 1910, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy left Yasnaya Polyana. At the Shchekino station of the Moscow-Kursk railway boarded freight passenger train No. 9 and never returned.
• Go to Tula. End of program.