Tula manor ring

The program introduces the life and life of people of different classes who left a noticeable mark not only in the life of the province, but also in the whole of Russia.

1 day

• Arriving in Tula. Meeting with the representative of the Silk Road travel company.
• Excursion to the house-museum of V.V. Veresayev.
  The house-museum of V.V. Veresayev is the only preserved city estate in Tula. The exposition of the museum is dedicated to the life and work of Vikenty Veresaev (Smidovich), a writer, literary critic and Pushkinist. He was born in Tula, in the family of the founders of the Tula City Hospital and the first kindergarten in Tula. The main exhibits of the museum are personal belongings of the famous writer and his legendary parents: photos, documents, portraits, autographed books. The house recreated the interiors of the living rooms of the Smidovich family of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Moscow office of the writer and the library.
• Excursion to the Bogoroditsky Palace-Museum and Park.
  “Business card” of the city of Bogoroditsk, Tula region – “impressive beauty high house above the cliff of the pond” and “extensive garden”, which in the Catherine era was known as “the miracle of the local land”. By the will of Catherine II and by the designs of the St. Petersburg architect Ivan Egorovich Starov, a palace was laid on the site of the wooden Bogoroditsky fortress (1663) in 1773, which was intended for the son of the Empress from Count G. G. Orlov - Alexei Grigorievich Bobrinsky (1762-1813). Visitors to the palace get acquainted with the work of the creators of the estate and the fate of its owners - counts Bobrinsky, and in the suite of the second floor - the recreated decoration of the palace interiors of the turn of the XYIII - XIX centuries. Antique furniture and painting, chandeliers and chandeliers, clocks and sculptures - all this transports guests to the era of early classicism. The museum has 16 exhibition halls. You can go to the observation deck, and then from an 18-meter height, Bogoroditsk will appear to the eye, which since 1778 has spread out with an amphitheater behind the surface of an ancient pond, reminding someone of an open fan, and to whom a flower stall. Historical Fact: Catherine the Great, looking at the plan of the city, “... was so pleased with them that she compared it with an existing flower garden.” But the Bogoroditsky estate has still not lost the “seal of grace”, so tourists and guests of the city dubbed it “Tula Peterhof”.
• Lunch;
• Excursion to the historical and ethnographic museum in the village of Epiphany.
  Game tour "Visiting the merchant Baibakov" with tea. A trip to the Epiphani Historical and Ethnographic Museum is an acquaintance with the traditional household of a merchant family. In the merchant garden and bins there is everything that the Epiphany land was famous for: fragrant jam from berries grown in Epiphani, special freshness and crunch of cucumbers, healing honey and reserves of herbs from the Kulikovo field for brewing fragrant tea. Tourists can fully feel the special spirit of merchant life if they stay for the night or for a few days in one of the cozy houses on the territory of the Baibakov estate.
• Hotel accommodation. Free time.

2 days

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide.
• Sightseeing tour of the city.
  The tour will introduce the history of the city of Tula with its historical core and center - the ancient Kremlin, cathedrals and churches, ancient streets where rich Tula merchants and industrialists lived. Visitors will hear the history of the Forge Sloboda and get acquainted with its extraordinary monuments - Peter I, Nikita Demidov, Left-handed.
• 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, cultural and natural museum-reserve of I.S. Turgenev "Bezhin meadow".
  Family estate of father I.S. Turgenev. 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.
• Transfer to the hotel. "" Free time.

3 days

• Breakfast. Meeting with a guide.
• Excursion to the museum-estate of A.T. Bolotov "Nobles".
  Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov (1738-1833) - a famous Russian scientist, philosopher, writer, encyclopedist, one of the founders of Russian agronomic science. On the territory of the estate, an open-air museum has been restored, the only Russian vegetable and medicinal garden in its diversity of species composition, a system of multi-tiered ponds, gardens, flower beds and buttocks are being revived. The most valuable exhibits of the museum are the original letters dated 1826, the scientific library of Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov and his electric machine. The house stands on the crest of a high steeple above the Sknigaya River, from where beautiful landscapes extend.
• Lunch;
• Excursion to the State Memorial Historical, Artistic and Natural Museum-Reserve of Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Visitors wishing to get acquainted with the work of V.D. Polenov will see firsthand the Oka expanses where the artist lived and worked, plunge into the traditions and coziness of the Polenovo estate, breathe in the clean air full of the aroma of coniferous forest.
• End of program.