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08:30 Gathering of the group and meeting with the guide in Kineshma on the arrival platform at the train center. The sign "Volzhsky Boulevard Holiday".
Boarding the bus (free seating).
Transfer to the Shchelykovo Museum-Reserve (30 km). Travel information.
Museum-estate of A.N. Ostrovsky "Shchelykovo".
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."
St. Nicholas Church in Berezhki.
The playwright himself, his father Nikolai Fedorovich, his wife Maria Vasilyevna and daughter Maria Alexandrovna Chatelain are buried here.
The Sobolev House Ethnographic Museum.
A former Ostrovsky serf, a talented carpenter and carver, Sobolev fulfilled Ostrovsky's orders and made furniture for the manor house.
Currently, the Sobolev house houses the ethnographic exhibition "Life and traditions of our ancestors", which presents the crafts, crafts, life and traditions of the peasants of the XIX century, characteristic of these places.
Many of the items on display were collected during ethnographic expeditions that took place over several decades.
12:30 Return to Kineshma.
Lunch at a restaurant in the city.
City festivities "Celebration of Volzhsky Boulevard".
Independent participation in festive festivities.
Kineshma's Volzhsky Boulevard is the hallmark of the city, it is rightfully considered one of the most picturesque places in the region.
The centerpiece of the Merchant's Revelry program is a wide–ranging holiday fair that unfolds on the upper and lower parts of the embankment.
Masters of applied and artistic creativity present products made of clay and ceramics, wood carvings, paintings on birch bark, handmade soap, artistic products made of wool.
Kineshma has always inspired painters from all over the country, so an exhibition and sale of works by Kineshma artists is traditionally held at the Volzhsky Boulevard festival.
Stylized interactive platforms, photo zones, master classes in dowsing, pottery and ancient dances, autumn installations, musical and theatrical performances, games and quizzes, performances by theater groups were created for the guests of the holiday.
In the evening there will be a fire show and a disco on the boulevard.
16:00 Boat trip along the Volga (for an additional fee, paid together with the ticket).
A 40-minute boat ride along the wide expanse of the river with access to the Volga arrow and the Kineshemka River.
Only the waves, the sky, the wind and the speed, and the steep Volga shores passing by. Moments of absolute freedom and intoxicating happiness.
Accommodation at the Mirnaya Marina Hotel in Kineshma or the Semigorye Hotel.
Dinner at the hotel cafe (for an additional fee of 800 rubles, paid together with the ticket).
