The Moscow Kremlin is a symbol of the Russian State, one of the greatest architectural complexes in the world, a treasure house of magnificent relics and monuments of art. We are pleased to invite you to visit the Moscow Kremlin also known as the Russian Government, which is a historic fortified complex in the very heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River (to the south), Saint Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square (to the east) and the Alexander Garden (to the west). Moscow Kremlin is the most recognizable of all Russian sights and includes numerous palaces and cathedrals, and the famous red brick wall with 20 Kremlin towers. The complex serves as the official residence of the President of Russia.

During the tour you visit the Armoury Chamber. The Armoury Chamber. The Armoury Chamber preserves ancient state regalia, ceremonial tsar’s vestments and coronation dress, vestments of the Russian Orthodox Church’es hierarchs, the largest collection of gold and silverware by Russian craftsmen, West European artistic silver, ceremonial weapons and arms, carriages, horse ceremonial harness.

The State Tretyakov gallery possesses a unique collection of Russian art which includes masterpieces created for more than a thousand years.

The Gallery was founded by a Russian merchant and maecenas Pavel Tretyakov. He donated his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892. The State Tretyakov gallery has since become a world-famous museum. Nowadays it contains more than 170 000 works by Russian artists from the early religious paintings to the modern art objects.

One of the best ways to explore Moscow is by boat. While Moscow is not known for it’s waterways, the Moscow River intersects the heart of the city. The boat will take you from one end of the city to the other and along the way see some breathtaking sights.

The Pushkin State Museum of fine arts is one of the largest artistic collection of the foreign art from the oldest time to the present day. In the modern exposition are presented the comprehensive exercise collection of toned plaster casts of the antiquity, middle ages and Renaissance works, as well as collection of the original works of painting, sculpture, graphic arts and arts and crafts.

To your attention will be presented the excursion «XIX-XX centuries Gallery survey»

The Gallery, a new section of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, opened its doors to the public in August 2006. The setting up of the Gallery was the next step in the development of the Museum, following the opening of a new building for the Museum of Private Collections in 2005 and the Museion Centre of Aesthetic Training for children and young people in 2006.

The Gallery’s twenty-six rooms contain a collection of works by masters of the 19th and 20th centuries. Whole rooms are devoted to a single movement in European art or the work of a single artist. There is a special room for the early 19th-century German school of painting represented by the works of Caspar David Friedrich and the Nazarenes. Smaller rooms enable visitors to take a new look at the well-known pictures of Eugene Delacroix and Jean-Dominique Ingres. The Spanish school is represented by Francisco de Goya. There is a special room for the Paris Salon painters Jean-Leon Gerome, Paul Delaroche and Eugene Louis Isabey. The works of the French landscape painters Camille Corot and members of the Barbizon School Theodore Rousseau, Jules Duprd, Diaz de la Pena and Charles Daubigny seem to have been specially intended for the Gallery’s interiors. Canvases by Gustave Courbet, Jean-Franqois Millet and Honore Daumier complete the panorama of French realist art.

The pride of the Gallery consists of the paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and masters of the early 20th century: Claude Monet, August Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Andre Derain and Menri Rousseau. In the new display you can see works by representatives of other European schools, and also American art. Alongside the canvases of Vasily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Giorgio de Chirico are pictures by Aquille Funi, Carl Hofer, Felice Casorati, Hans Grundig, Volker Bohringer and Rockwell Kent.

The work of such eminent European sculptors as Antoine-Louis Barye, Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Ossip Zadkine and Hans Arp is also represented.

The history of the Cathedral begins on December 25, 1812. This was the day that the last soldiers of Napoleons’ 600,000 man army were driven out of Russia. Emperor Alexander I signed a Manifesto ordering the construction of a magnificent Cathedral in honor of Christ the Savior in Moscow as a thanksgiving to God and to honor the victorious Russian army.
The Cathedral is a perceptible memorial to the battle of the Russian people against the napoleonic hordes. The names of the renowned heroes, whom God chose as instruments to save His people are engraved on marble boards in the main gallery of the Cathedral.

Tsaritsyno is the largest museum-reserve and historical and cultural monument of the federal level in Moscow, occupying over 700 hectares. Its nucleus is the largest palatial ensemble in Russia — the residence of Catherine the Great. ". The majority of the architectural monuments have already undergone restoration.

This excursion is to get you acquainted with the city of Moscow and it’s most famous and beautiful sights. During the tour you will visit the Red Square with the Lenin Mausoleum and St. Basil’s Cathedral, Tverskaya Street, Novodevichiy monastery, New Arbat pedestrian street, and Temple of the Christ of the Savior. You will also make the stop on the Lenin’s Hills, which are considered to be the highest point of Moscow where you can enjoy a great panorama of the city, as well as pass along the Kutuzov Street and visit the Victory Park with its fountains and churches.

ITINERARY:

1 DAY

• ARRIVAL TO THE PULKOVO
• MEETING AT THE AIRPORT
• TRANSFER TO THE HOTEL
• BREAKFAST
• TOUR AROUND ST.PETERSBURG:
  DURING THE TOUR YOU WILL SEE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CITY, BEAUTIFUL WIDE RIVER NEVA WITH ITS GRANITE EMBANKMENTS, LARGE AND SMALL BRIDGES, THE UNIQUE ARCHITECTONIC ENSEMBLES SUCH AS: THE SPIT OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND AND PETER & PAUL FORTRESS, THE DECEMBRISTS’ SQUARE WITH THE MONUMENT OF PETER THE GREAT, ST.ISAAC’S CATHEDRAL AND ISAAKIEVSKAYA SQUARE, THE SPACIOUS AND MAJESTIC PALACE SQUARE WITH THE BEST BAROQUE STYLE BUILDING WINTER PALACE AND, OF COURSE, NEVSKY AVENUE (NEVSKY PROSPEKT) — THE MAIN STREET OF THE CITY.
  
  
  
• FREE TIME

2 DAY

• BREAKFAST
• PETERHOF TOUR INCLUDING VIST OF THE LOWER PARK AND THE GRAND PALACE
• LUNCH
  
  
  

3 DAY

• BREAKFAST
• CHECK-IN AT THE HOTEL
• EXCURSION TO HERMITAGE:
  YOU WILL ALSO VISIT THE STATE HERMITAGE — ONE OF THE LARGEST AND OLDEST MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD. IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1764 BY CATHERINE THE GREAT AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SINCE 1852. ITS COLLECTIONS, OF WHICH ONLY A SMALL PART IS ON PERMANENT DISPLAY, COMPRISE NEARLY 3 MILLION ITEMS, INCLUDING THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS IN THE WORLD.
  
  
  
  
  
• LUNCHl
• TRANSFER BY TRAIN FROM ST.PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW

Holy Trinity Monastery or Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra is probably the most important monastery in Russia and the spiritual center of Russian Orthodox Christianity. The monastery is situated 70 km away from Moscow in the antique town Sergiev Posad. The town and monastery grew from the 14th century and was named after the famous saint Sergey Radonezhskiy, who decided to live in the woods. He constructed the Trinity cathedral. First, the small monastery turned into the main religious centre and has become a kind of «Russian Vatican».

We hope you will join excursion to Sergiev Posad with an inside visit to the Holy Trinity Monastery. While there, you will see the Holy Trinity Cathedral, which is considered to be the heart of the Lavra. There is no other way to appreciate its golden domes and see holy relics of St. Sergius, except by being there. Its beautiful interior, lit by lamps, is covered with icons of the great artist Andrei Rublev. The Vestry will also be opened to you with its rich collection of various items donated over the past 600 years. Among them there are: jewel-encrusted vestments, fine tapestries, solid-gold chalices and more.

The Golden Ring are ancient towns, which also played a significant role in the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church, preserve the memory of the most important and significant events in Russian history. The towns have been called «open air museums» and feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th—18th centuries, including kremlins, monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. These towns are among the most picturesque in Russia and prominently feature Russia’s famous onion domes. During this tour you visit ancient cities: Vladimir, Suzdal.