Kargopol, Solvychegodsk, Veliky Ustyug and Totma

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This tour will allow you to get rid of momentary problems for a while, and plunge into the world of temple architecture of Ancient Russia, will allow you to feel the great spiritual heritage that our ancestors bequeathed to us so that we keep in our hearts a sense of beauty and harmony of the world. There are many architectural monuments left from our Orthodox history. You will get acquainted with those that can rightfully be called spiritual symbols of the Russian North.

A pleasant addition to the tour program will be an acquaintance with folk crafts and crafts of the Russian North – Kargopol clay toy, blackening on silver, birch bark craft and weaving. And a rustic Oshevenski lunch with lots of pies from a Russian oven will be a real feast for our guests.

Location

Arkhangelsk region, Nyandoma

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Tour highlights

Spiritual symbols of the Russian North

We will visit the Church of Procopius the Righteous in Veliky Ustyug, the Cathedral of the Nativity in Kargopol, the reviving monastery of Alexander Oshevensky in Kargopol and the Annunciation Cathedral in Solvychegodsk

Introduction to folk crafts and crafts

There will be an opportunity to get acquainted with Kargopol clay toys, blackening on silver, birch bark craft and weaving

Rustic lunch in the Oshevenski style

We are waiting for a rustic lunch with lots of pies from the Russian oven

Itinerary

Day 1 - Sightseeing tour of Kargopol and the Kargopolye exhibition since ancient times
06:03 Arrival at Nyandoma station by train No. 79 Arkhangelsk – Adler.
06:37 Arrival at Nyandoma station by train No. 10 St. Petersburg – Arkhangelsk.
10:06 Arrival at Nyandoma station by train No. 116/118 Moscow – Arkhangelsk.
Meeting - gathering of tourists with a sign at the main entrance to the railway station from the platform.
10:15 Transfer to Kargopol (78 km).
11:15 Arrival in Kargopol.
Lunch at the cafe.
Accommodation in hotels/guest houses in the city in rooms with amenities (after 14:00).
12:00 Sightseeing walking tour of the city will take you along the cozy embankment, temple complexes in the squares will delight with their splendor, and local legends and legends will completely immerse you in the distant past of the northern glorious city.
The city of Kargopol is located at the very source of the Onega River, which originates from Lake Lache. In the past, it was a famous trading city of the ancient Russian state, the lands of which stretched along the Onega River to the White Sea. A transit salt route from Pomerania passed through Kargopol.
Souvenir shop.
14:00 Visit to the exhibition "Kargopolye since ancient times". Summary: the exhibition presents the history of the Kargopol fortress, objects of excavations of the XVII century, including weapons, cannons, cannons, etc. Visitors will be presented with a unique icon "Boris and Gleb against the background of the burning Kargopol fortress", painted "1700 May 1 day" in memory of the miraculous rescue of Kargopol from fire, they will tell about the siege of the Kargopol fortress by Polish-Lithuanian detachments in 1612 and the successes of the Kargopol people, where they "showed glorious victories".
15:00 Free time to explore the city on your own.
This part of the "disorganized" journey is sure to be extremely interesting and informative. People come here for the "atmosphere". You can just walk around Kargopol without any purpose and enjoy everything you see.
On request (independently, for an additional fee) – a visit to the first Private House – Museum of the Shevelev dynasty of potters in Kargopol with the possibility of holding a master class on modeling Kargopol clay toys.
Birch bark souvenir shop.
Dinner (for an additional fee).

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Day 2 - Oshevenskaya parish and lunch in Oshevensky
08:30 Breakfast.
09:00 Bus and walking expedition to the "Oshevenskaya parish". In addition to the village of Oshevenskoye, the way will be to the villages of Saunino and Pogost (50 km). This is the second most important place in Kargopolye, where you should definitely visit. An ancient reviving monastery, wooden architecture and traditional crafts for the Russian North coexist here at the same time. The village of Oshevenskoye is an outstanding historical and landscape monument of the Russian North.
In the village of Saunino there is the Church of St. John Chrysostom. This is a tent temple built in 1665. Inside, the temple is covered with a picturesque ceiling – "painted skies". The hexagonal bell tower of the XVIII century gives the whole ensemble a complete and unique look. Ensembles of monuments of wooden architecture are also expected in the village with the wonderful name Pogost. In ancient times, this word meant not only a cemetery, but also a common place of nearby settlements.
12:00 Village lunch in Oshevenskiy style with homemade bread and pies from a Russian oven.
After lunch, we continue our acquaintance with Kargopol - we go to the village of Archangel, where on the left bank of the Onega River there are two wooden churches — Archangel Michael (1715) and the Presentation of the Lord (about 1820). The first is unique in that it is completed with a cubic roof, known only in the Poonezhye and on the Prionezhsky shore of the White Sea. Cuba has a traditional five-domed church. The apse is blocked by a barrel. The Sretensky Church has a helmet-shaped roof with a dome at the end. The Temple of the Presentation of the Lord belongs to the type of tiered temples.
13:30 We return to Kargopol along the ancient postal route through the village of Volosovo, where the ruined remains of the Nikolsky wooden temple (1670) are located. The village of Volosovo is also known in the history of the Poonezhye region as one of the "schismatic nests".
15:00 Free time to continue exploring the city on your own. For an additional fee, the following services are offered:
A country bus tour to the village of Bolshye Lyadiny (37 km) with a check–in (if there is a driveway) to the village of Krasnaya Lyaga, where the unique tent-roofed Sreteno - Mikhailovskaya Church (1655) with its amazing exterior decoration has been preserved (self-inspection). External inspection of the multi–headed Epiphany Church (1793) with a semicircular porch - gulbishche in the village of Lyadiny. Visit to the ethnographic museum "Lyadinskoe uzorochye" (the revival of the linen industry, objects of peasant life, the history of the village). The cost of the tour is 2,000 rubles per person.
Inspection of exhibitions and expositions of the Kargopol Museum. The price is according to the museum's Price List.
Visit to the Bereginya Folk Crafts Center, which is located in a building that is an architectural monument of the early 19th century. Traveling through the workshops of the Center of Folk Crafts, you will come into contact with traditional northern crafts - birch bark weaving, patchwork, folk rag doll, weaving, clay toy. "Reborn craft" is the name of the exposition of our small museum, where the warmth of the hands and soul of the masters is stored in the images and plots of toys made of clay.
Souvenir shop. The cost is according to the Price List of the Center.
18:00 Dinner (for an additional fee).
22:30 Room release. Transfer to Nyandoma station (78 km).
Day 3 - Salty Lake, mineral spring and the embankment of the Vychegda River
00:45 Departure by train No. 371 Arkhangelsk — Kotlas.
11:11 Arrival at Kotlas Yuzhny station. Meeting tourists at the main entrance to the railway station from the side of the platform with a sign.
Transfer to Solvychegodsk (30 km).
12:00 Sightseeing walking tour — Saline Lake, mineral spring, embankment of the Vychegda river.
Excursion to the Annunciation Cathedral — the house church of the Stroganov merchants (XVI century), which houses the exposition of the Solvychegod Historical and Architectural Museum. Frescoes and an iconostasis of the XVII century have been preserved in the interior of the temple.
The bell tower of the cathedral offers a wonderful panorama of this small county town. Acquaintance with the Vvedensky monastery, founded in the XVII century near the Salt Lake, on the shore of which the salt barn has been preserved.
The seven—tiered carved iconostasis and icons of the Stroganov school of the XVII century, impressive in size, have been preserved in the main temple of the monastery - the Vvedensky Cathedral.
During the excursion day, time is allocated for an independent snack in the Solvychegodsk cafe.
16:00 Transfer to Veliky Ustyug (101 km).
Accommodation in the Dvina Hotel in rooms with amenities.
Free time.
Day 4 - Sightseeing tour of Veliky Ustyug and the Museum of Ancient Russian Art
08:30 Breakfast in the hotel cafe. Room release.
09:00 Sightseeing walking tour with a visit to the temple of Prokopiy Ustyuzhsky.
During the tour, tourists will visit the Cathedral Courtyard, get acquainted with the ensemble of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Monastery (founded in the XII century), see beautiful monuments of stone architecture — the Churches of the Transfiguration of the Savior and the Sretensky Transfiguration of the XII-XVIII centuries, the churches of the Ascension and St. Nicholas of the XVII century, monuments of civil architecture, walk along the embankment of the Sukhona River.
11:30 Visit to the souvenir shops "Severnaya rabble" and "Korobeynik".
12:00 An excursion to the Museum of Ancient Russian Art is held in the Church of the Ascension. The Museum of Ancient Russian art was created in the architectural monument of the XVII century — the Church of the Ascension, where a museum tour was organized.
Today, the temple is a rare monument, distinguished by the integrity of its interior. The Ustyuzha icon painting is especially vividly represented in the Museum of Ancient Russian Art.
About 70 monuments of iconographic art of the XV–XVII centuries are on display, 33 of them are shown for the first time. The famous "Ustyuzha letters" are presented, with their elegance of drawing and calligraphic purity of lines, careful drawing of details and exquisite coloring.
In the case of a weekend or a sanitary day at the Church of the Ascension, the tour is replaced by a sightseeing tour of the museum's storage facility.
Summary: in the depository — the repository of museum funds, a sightseeing tour of the museum's storage facility is conducted — numerous collections, including tiles and furniture, artistic birch bark and samovars, glass and porcelain, books and documents.
13:00 Lunch at the cafe.
14:00 For an additional fee, you can choose from:
A trip to the Country Estate of Santa Claus — a visit to the fairy-tale house of the gray-haired wizard, the Trail of Fairy tales and the forge of Santa Claus. The cost is 2,900 rubles/person.
Excursion to the museum of the Severnaya Chernya factory. The cost is 500 rubles/person.
Excursion to the ethnographic museum "Art of the Ustyuzha land" in the St. Nicholas Church building. The rich stock collections made it possible to show the variety of folk art of the Ustyuzha region of the XVII – early XX centuries: patterned weaving (pestle, remiz, brane, elective), embroidery, cubic stuffing, wood carving and painting, forging and cutting, ceramics. The cost is 700 rubles/person.
Excursion to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. At the confluence of the Sukhona and South rivers, the city of Gleden stood on a high hill in ancient times. A monastery in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity was founded near the city, which is rightfully considered one of the oldest in the Russian North. The iconostasis, rare in beauty, revived in the 70s of the XX century by Moscow restorers, is admired by all who come on a museum tour to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. Visit to the Dymkovskaya Sloboda. Panorama of the embankment of Veliky Ustyug. The tour is bus-walking, held only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 2,500 rubles/person.
Excursion to the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Cathedral, the decoration of which is a high three—tiered carved gilded iconostasis of the 17th and 18th centuries, which combines two styles - Baroque and classicism. Four paintings of different times from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved on the porch of the cathedral, including the unique "Old Man's Parables". The tour is a walking tour, held only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 800 rubles/person.

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Day 5 - The darkness. Completion of the program
07:30 Breakfast in the hotel cafe. Room release.
08:00 Departure to Totma (240 km).
11:30 Sightseeing tour of the city "Small town with a great history" will allow travelers to leisurely stroll through the provincial streets of the county town, examine wooden houses with angular balconies and carved architraves, discover the amazing beauty of temples made in the architectural style of "Totem Baroque", tell what "cartouches" are and why they glorified Totma for the whole world. Note: during the excursion day, time is allocated for an independent lunch at the Totma cafe.
15:00 The Museum of Church Antiquities is located in the Assumption Church with a high majestic bell tower. Its exposition includes monuments of North Russian iconography, samples of wooden temple sculpture, small plastic made of copper and wood, as well as church utensils. The museum houses the miraculous icon of Our Lady of All Sorrowful Joy, painted in the XVII century.
16:00 Free time.
17:15 Departure to Vologda (200 km). At the exit from Totma, check in at the roadside camping "Fox Island" for a sanitary stop.
20:30 Arrival in Vologda at the railway station.
21:47 Departure of tourists by train No. 115 Arkhangelsk – Moscow.
21:30 Departure of tourists by train No. 71 "Demidovsky express" Yekaterinburg – S.Petersburg.