08:30 Breakfast in the hotel cafe. Room release.
09:00 Sightseeing walking tour with a visit to the church of Prokopius of Ustyuzha.
During the tour, tourists will visit the Cathedral Courtyard, get acquainted with the ensemble of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Monastery (founded in the 12th century), see beautiful monuments of stone architecture — the Churches of the Transfiguration of the Savior and the Sretensky Transfiguration of the 12th-18th centuries, the churches of the Ascension and St. Nicholas of the 17th century, monuments of civil architecture, stroll along the embankment of the Sukhona River.
11:30 Visit to the souvenir shops "Severnaya rabble" and "Korobeinik".
12:00 An excursion to the Museum of Ancient Russian Art is held at the Church of the Ascension. The Museum of Ancient Russian Art was created in the architectural monument of the 17th 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.
Ustyug icon painting is especially vividly represented in the Museum of Ancient Russian Art. About 70 monuments of icon painting 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.
Among them are outstanding works of Ustyug iconography — the icon "Assumption of the Mother of God" (1496), the contribution of Prince Semyon Borisovich of Suzdal to the main temple of Veliky Ustyug — Assumption Cathedral, the image of the Savior Not Made with Hands (XVI century), the miraculous icon "Our Lady Hodegetria Smolenskaya" (about 1558), before which Peter the Great prayed in 1693.
Note: in 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: the depository is a repository of museum funds, and a sightseeing tour of the museum's collections is underway, including tiles and furniture, artistic birch bark and samovars, glass and porcelain, books and documents. Large areas of the exhibition are devoted to the storage of collections of objects accessible to visitors.
The sightseeing tour includes: a collection of tiles with more than three and a half thousand items of storage, a collection of spinning wheels and furniture, a collection of birch bark products, a collection of porcelain and earthenware, a collection of bone products.
The largest group of objects in the sightseeing tour is all kinds of caskets, boxes, caskets of different sizes. Among the household items, mostly in well—to-do homes, there were various objects made of bone - fans, sewing machines, paper knives, combs. The abundance of monasteries and churches in the Russian North has determined another type of work of bone cutters: icons, crosses, icons.
Icons were mounted from bone plates and figures on a rectangular board on a foil or fabric background. A collection of metal objects is presented in a separate room of the storage facility.
13:00 Lunch at a cafe.
14:00 For an additional fee, you can choose from:
- A trip to the Country Estate of Santa Claus — a visit to the fabulous terem of the gray wizard, the Trail of fairy tales and the forge of Santa Claus. The cost is 3,900 rubles/person.
- Excursion to the museum of the Severnaya Rabble factory. The cost is 600 rubles/person.
- Excursion to the ethnographic museum "Art of the Ustyuzha land" in the St. Nicholas Church building. The rich stock collections allowed us to show a variety of folk art of the Ustyuzha region of the XVII – early XX centuries: patterned weaving (pestle, remiz, brane, elective), embroidery, cubic printing, wood carving and painting, forging and cutting, ceramics. The cost starts from 1,250 rubles/person.
- Excursion to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. Summary: at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yuga 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, which was restored in the 70s of the 20th century by Moscow restorers, is admired by everyone who comes on a museum tour to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. Visit to Dymkovskaya sloboda. Panorama of the embankment of Veliky Ustyug. Notes: the tour is a bus and pedestrian tour, conducted only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 3,000 rubles/person.
- Excursion to the Mikhailo-Archangel Cathedral, decorated with a tall three-tiered carved gilded iconostasis of the 17th and 18th centuries, which combines two styles — Baroque and classicism. On the porch of the cathedral, four paintings of different times from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved, including the unique "Parables of the Elders". Note: the tour is a walking tour, conducted only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 1,250 rubles/person.
17:45 Transfer to Kotlas Yuzhny (70 km).
19:22 Departure of tourists by train No. 97 Vorkuta — St. Petersburg.
20:12 Departure of tourists by train No. 375 Vorkuta — Moscow.
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