08:30 Breakfast in the hotel cafe.
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.
Among them are outstanding works of Ustyug iconography — the icon "Assumption of the Mother of God" (1496), the contribution of Prince Semyon Borisovich Suzdalsky to the main temple of Great Ustyug — Assumption Cathedral, the image of the Savior Not Made with Hands (XVI century), the miraculous icon "Our Lady of Odigitria Smolenskaya" (about 1558), before which Peter the Great prayed in 1693.
Note: 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. Large areas of the exhibition are reserved for the storage of collections of objects accessible to visitors.
The sightseeing tour includes: a collection of tiles, numbering more than three and a half thousand storage units, 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 items in the sightseeing tour are all kinds of caskets, boxes, caskets of different sizes. Among the household items, mainly in well-to-do houses, 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: images, crosses, icons. Icons were mounted from bone plates and figures on a rectangular board on a background of foil or fabrics.
A collection of metal objects is presented in a separate room of the storage facility. Basically, these are samovars: kettle samovars, camping samovars. Also on the sightseeing tour you can see rainbow bells of different sizes, candlesticks, candelabra, locks, keys large and small.
13:00 Lunch at a cafe in the city.
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 a 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 800 rubles/person.
- Excursion to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. Summary: 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. Notes: the tour is bus-walking, held only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 2,700 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". Notes: the tour is a walking tour, held only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 850 rubles/person.
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