A cozy corner of the soul: Ivanovo lands in winter

Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Transfer to the Shchelykovo Museum-Reserve.

The estate of the great Russian playwright Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky is a place that he compared "with the best places in Switzerland and Italy," a place that became his lifelong love.

Here he worked a lot and fruitfully, received numerous guests, and found his last refuge here. His legacy is carefully preserved here and the Shchelyk traditions are maintained.

You will visit the writer's house. It was in this house that A.N. Ostrovsky lived when he came to the estate for the summer. Having visited Shchelykovo for the first time, the playwright speaks with admiration about the house, noting that it is "surprisingly good both from the outside for the originality of the architecture and inside for the convenience of the premises."

Moving to Kineshma, one of the oldest industrial centers of the Upper Volga region.

The city has retained its provincial charm and the atmosphere of a county merchant town — the one- and two-story houses of merchants and burghers of the 19th century are organically complemented by the mansions of merchant manufacturers, majestic public buildings, and temple ensembles.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

A tour of the historical center will allow you to see the majestic cathedrals and temples, the wealth of mansions, the famous Volzhsky Boulevard, the grandiose Trinity Assumption Cathedral, founded back in 1745, an example of Russian church architecture of the XVIII century.

Nearby is the magnificent openwork bell tower of the cathedral, erected in 1798. And the Kineshma Red Rows are a monument of Russian architectural eclecticism, where everything is mixed up: Romanesque monumentality, classical rigor and modern elegance. A real time travel.

Visit to the private Valenok Museum.

Currently, the museum holds more than 200 exhibits, including antique woolen machines, tools for making felt boots, record-breaking boots, decorated felt boots, chess boots, various wool products, boots of unusual shapes, a collection of miniature felt boots and much more.

Later return to the hotel.

Free time.

For an additional fee, dinner (cost 600 rubles / person, paid together with the ticket).

Breakfast in the hotel restaurant. Room release.

Transfer to the village of Palekh, which existed on the Nizhny Novgorod road since the 17th century, known as the center of the Paletsky principality, belonging to the Princes of Palekh, the family of princes Starodubsky.

A village where every tenth resident is an artist. The golden Firebird serves as the symbol of the village, and the amazing art of creating Palekh lacquer boxes has been living here for almost a hundred years.

Visit to Holy Cross Church (17th century), painted in 1807 by Palekh icon painters. Professor of Art History A.V. Bakushinsky called these murals "the last great wall painting, completing the cycle of development of the ancient Russian religious painting tradition."

Transfer to Kholui, the renowned center of Russian lacquer miniature and icon painting.

Excursion to the Museum of Kholui Art: among 5,000 items of storage, you can see not only works of Kholui lacquer painting, but also household items, paintings, graphics, sculptures, samples of decorative and applied art (embroidery, lace weaving). Icons make up a significant part of the museum's collection.

A master class on painting lacquer miniatures, where the secrets of this art will be revealed to you. Everyone will take their product with them.

Visiting souvenir shops.

Transfer to the village of Ponkino.

A gastronomic feast of organic village products.

Rustic lunch from the oven is a unique taste of Slavic cuisine: Russian green cabbage soup, potatoes with herbs, homemade bacon, pickles, pastries and a rustic drink, cooked with a soul.

A photo shoot in rustic outfits.

For those who wish to visit the farmer's meat products store.

Visit to the Gagarin family's private cheese factory "Behind glass".

Here they will tell you about cheese production, show you how it works through glass.

A tasting of the cheese factory's products with tea, bagels and homemade jam in the tasting room is accompanied by a story about each type of cheese, the history of cheese making, and interesting facts about cheese.

Here you can buy products from local farmers: Shuya berries, marbled catfish.

Transfer to Shuya railway station.

18:30 The end of the program at the Shuya railway station.

Departure to Moscow on your own.