A trip to the Ivanovo region for new tastes and impressions

Breakfast.

Transfer to Kineshma, which is located on the banks of the Volga River.

It is 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 first mention of the city dates back to the XV century.

However, in the following centuries, Kineshma was, although large and rich, but a rural settlement (sloboda). Kineshma received its urban status only in 1777 as part of Catherine's urban reforms. In addition to the Volga trade, the city also developed its own textile production.

The most beautiful place is considered to be the Volga embankment, along which we will certainly take a walk.

Sightseeing walking tour of the historical center of the city with a visit to the Assumption Cathedral — "The charm of a provincial city".

During an exciting walking tour of the city center along Volzhsky Boulevard, you will get acquainted with its history, take a walk through the places where the famous playwright A.N. Ostrovsky wrote the immortal play "The Bride". It was here in Kineshma in 1936 that the filming of the film of the same name took place.

Posadskaya Square, the Noble Assembly, the Red Shopping Malls, the Polenov-Tikhomirov house — they take you into the atmosphere of a merchant county town of the nineteenth century.

Visit to the private Valenok Museum.

"In order not to get sick in winter, you need to put on felt boots." Currently, the museum holds more than 200 exhibits, including antique woolen machines, tools for making felt boots, record-breaking felt boots, decorated felt boots, and chess felt boots, various wool products, felt boots of unusual shapes, a collection of miniature felt boots and much more.

Lunch at the restaurant "Russian hut".

This is a cozy restaurant decorated in the spirit of a peasant hut. The main elements of the interior are peasant household items collected in villages and villages of the former Kineshma district. It is located in the historical building of the Kineshma "tea sobriety", a monument of history and architecture of the late XIX century.

The building, "embedded" in the steep bank on Volzhsky Boulevard, is already a Kineshma landmark in itself, reflected in famous films: "Chinese Service", "The Ulyanov Family", "Yakov Sverdlov".

Lunch time: you will be treated to a unique dish "Kineshmi deep-fried pie" or "inside out soup" — a gastronomic brand of the city and region (this is both the first and second course at the same time, served with broth).

Free time for walking along Volzhsky Boulevard and a boat trip along the Volga (for arrivals from May to September).

Transfer to the village of Reshma.

Russian Russian village, where a special incomparable spirit of Russian traditions, peace and quiet have been preserved to this day. Reshma is located on the steep right bank of the Volga River. The most beautiful views of the Volga and the Reshemka River open to the eye here.

Cape Lyubov is the highest point of view on the right bank of the Volga River in the Kineshma district. A cliff overgrown with pine forest, which offers an amazingly beautiful view of the bend of the Volga, along which merchant ploughs sailed from the Varangians to the Greeks a long time ago, steamboats with red goods were sailing, gloomy boatmen dragged barges. There are many legends, creepy and romantic stories associated with this place.

You will have an excursion to the ancient monastic monastery, founded according to legend by St. Macarius of Unzhensk and Zheltovodsk. They say that earlier services were performed here so solemnly that people came from Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod to listen to them.

Today, the life of the monastery has been revived, the temple is working. The nuns have laid out wonderful flower beds around. Visiting the territory of the monastery, it's like visiting a small botanical garden.

Reshma has the purest air. Every person who comes here feels this. Today, more than three and a half hundred Siberian cedars grow here. The grove is a specially protected natural area of local importance.

We will visit the guest house "Reshemka". We will be greeted by the hostess, a generous, hospitable, good-natured, amazing woman. She will tell the story of the origin of dumplings.

A master class on modeling dumplings "Dumplings without haste".

Who doesn't like to eat delicious food? Culinary team building can be the trigger when you turn from a simple consumer of food into a real gourmet. 

The master class on modeling dumplings is author's. The participants of the program in white aprons arm themselves with rolling pins, roll out the dough and make dumplings of amazing beauty. They are prepared exclusively from homemade products and chilled meat.

When we worked hard, the reward did not keep us waiting, because a great meal with delicious dumplings was organized. The program ends with a treat of dumplings and a rustic feast.

Return to the hotel.

Breakfast. Room release.

11:30 Transfer to Shuya.

Our path will run through the ancient village of Dunilovo. Now Dunilovo firmly holds the status of the pearl of the Ivanovo region. The fact is that in 1992, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia visited Dunilovo. He was amazed by the abundance of temples and the beauty of the landscape and called Dunilovo "the pearl of the Russian land."

I must say that Dunilovo has clearly manifested itself in the national history. Russian Russians and Poles, Lithuanians and Russian rebels fought a battle here in 1609, which ended in the defeat of the latter. There is a memorial place in Dunilov in honor of those heroic events.

We will make a stop to admire the panoramas of the village and visit the local bakery. In the Dunilovskaya bakery, bread is still baked in a huge Russian oven, which is heated not with chopped wood, but with whole tree trunks, just like in tsarist times.

Back then, baking bread was considered a responsible and honorable business. The mother stove is the main attribute of the bakery. She is about 100 years old, and she is already a piece of history in her own right. The taste of bread from a wood-fired oven is incomparable.

A sourdough is placed in such a blazing oven. It should be noted that almost all bakeries and factories have already abandoned the sourdough dough. But not in the Dunilov bakery! It may be more expensive and longer in time, but it is very tasty.

Lunch at a cafe with tasting of Shuya tinctures.

Visit to the Shuiskaya Vodka brand store. The products can be purchased at factory prices so that, upon returning home, you can impress your friends with unique tinctures.

Sightseeing tour of Shuya, an ancient cozy Russian city above the river Teza, known since the beginning of the XVI century.

Shuya is famous as the birthplace of the "elected tsar" Vasily Shuisky, merchant dynasties, holy icons, the wondrous beauty of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, where the list of the miraculous icon of the Shuisky — Smolensk Mother of God is kept, and the tallest "candle" bell tower in Russia.

Visit to the mansion of the manufacturer M.A. Pavlov. He looks quite modest externally. But the decoration is not inferior to Italian palaces. 

Roman-Greek mosaics create incredible patterns, authentic flowerpots from the garden with a classic image, Italian marble, casket rooms with painted fabric.

M.A. Pavlov was a member of the Board of Directors of the Moscow Bank. And his own money had to be stored somewhere, so a safe was made behind the stairs on the opposite side. Our tour of the house will reveal many secrets to you.

In one of the halls we have prepared for you the program "Shuisky accordion is playing".

Transfer to Shuya railway station.

An introductory tour of the station. Shuya Station. An object of cultural heritage, major repairs have restored its historical appearance.

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

The company reserves the right to change the sequence of visits to facilities, as well as to replace museums, without reducing the total volume of the program.