The highlights of the Tula region

The highlights of the Tula Territory excursion tour to Tula-autumn 2025

A weekend tour in Tula is a great opportunity to spend time in our ancient and modern city. You are waiting for excursions to the museums of weapons, samovars and an excursion to the museum of gingerbread with a master class in the manufacture of gingerbread with tea. Walk along the new embankment, museum quarter, visit the Kremlin. Take part in the interactive program "Philimon's miracle" with a master class. You will visit the ancestral estate of L.N. Tolstoy, Kozlov zasek, imbue with the spirit of these places.

Dates: 8-10 August, 22-24 August, 12-14 September, 3-5 October, 2-4 November 2025

3 days / 2 nights

• 1 day, pedestrian.
• Independent arrival at the hotel, things can be left in the storage room in the hotel. Check-in after 14:00.
• Meeting at 12.30 at the Samovar Museum
• Samovar museum. Modern large museum. You will learn the history of samovar business in Tula and get acquainted with outstanding masters. You will be amazed by the collection of samovars: from miniature to huge
• Sightseeing tour "Tula workshop" pedestrian .In the early XVI century Tula as part of the Moscow state performed defensive functions. You will understand why they say that from the names of Tula streets you can collect a gun. You will see the old Armory factory and you will be able to take photos at the Left-handed and Horseshoe Happiness and make a wish at Tulyachka - a monument to all masters.

You will learn about the origin of the famous family of Demidovs - the richest Russian entrepreneurs, you will see a necropolis and a monument to the founder of the family.

 

• The Helmet Arms Museum is the oldest weapons museum in Russia with the richest collections, telling about the history of weapons from the Middle Ages to modernity. You will find a fascinating excursion, supplemented by numerous interactive platforms, modern multimedia devices, virtual simulators and much more.
• End of the program after 17.00

 

• 2 days
• Breakfast at the hotel.

Program "Meeting with L.N. Tolstoy"

• Meeting with a guide at the museum of samovars in the car. Departure.
• Excursion to the museum and station complex "Kozlov Zaseka". A place where everything looks exactly as it looked when Tolstoy’s body was brought to the station. Even the clock stopped. In this place you can take not only beautiful photos, but also learn about railway transport in Russia at the beginning of the XX century.
• Free time.
• Excursion to the museum-estate of Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana", (tickets to the house will be)

The tour is intended for those who come to Yasnaya Polyana for the first time or want to refresh their impressions of a long-term visit to the museum. The group inspects the central part of the estate "Yasnaya Polyana", the House of L. N. Tolstoy, in which most of the writer's life was spent, and an exhibition in the Kuzminsky Fligel, dedicated to the beginning of Tolstoy's creative activity.

The group will be told about sports games in the Tolstoy family, the first school in the Kuzminsky Fligel, the economic activities of L. N. Tolstoy. Being on the border of several Yasnopolyansk forests, tourists will learn about their history, reflection in the work of Tolstoy, hear about why one of them became the burial place of the writer.

In the final, those who wish can independently visit the grave of L. N. Tolstoy in the Yasnopolyansky forest Old Order.

• Carrot Museum with a master class in baking gingerbread. You will get acquainted with the history of a unique ancient delicacy that came to us from their depth of centuries, survived the ups and downs, losses and revival. You will learn about ancient traditions and rituals. Discover the secret of making gingerbread.

You are waiting for a tasting of gingerbread with tea and sweets + master class for baking gingerbread. You will pack everything beautifully and take it with you.

• Return to Tula after 18:00

 

• 3 days
• • Meeting with the group on Krasnoarmeysky Prospekt, house 3
  • Interactive program "Philimonic Miracle" We invite you to our interactive program with a master class in the Tulyachok museum studio dedicated to the history of Filimonov’s toy. Filimonov's toy is a bright representative of folk art craft - wonderful, original, with sparkling patterns. The clay whistle is fascinating! You will learn the details of how the toy appeared, what were the toys, their features and applications. At the master class, you will paint the toy with bright colors and take with you as a reminder of our meeting.

• Walking tour of the city. Visit to the Kremlin. Tula is an ancient Russian city that served for centuries the defense of the Moscow state, and then became the country's largest manufacturer of weapons. We offer guests to walk around the Old Town quarters - you can see Tula almost the same as Ushinsky, Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Uspensky saw it. You will walk along the Kremlin Garden and the embankment, opened in September 2018, get acquainted with one of the most beautiful streets of Tula - St. Metalists, who recently became pedestrian, take a photo at the monument “Tula gingerbread”. You will get acquainted with the main attractions of one of the most ancient cities of Russia, learn about the most famous Tulyaks, about the past and about what our city lives now.

• The tour ends after 15:00. Free time.

The cost of the program per 1 person 2 local accommodation:

 

Hotels 2 * with facilities 18 900

Hotels 3* 20 500

Hotels 4 * 22 200 R

Discount for a child under 14 years 1000 r per additional place and 500 r for the main one

Hotels 5* on request

• The price includes: transport and excursion services, accommodation 2 nights in the hotel, meals 2 breakfasts. Museum tickets

Guide services 3 days, bus 1 day, 2 breakfasts, museum tickets, 2 nights at the hotel