07:45 Gathering of the group at the metro station Yugo-Zapadnaya (at the entrance to the “Tasty and dot” (two-storey building), in the subway: the last car from the center, after the glass exit doors — to the left (exit to Pokryshkina Street), the guide meets with a sign with the name of the tour).
8:00 Departure, travel tour.
The Great Stand on the Ugra River Diorama Museum is the first museum complex in Russia dedicated to the military company of 1480. It was created on the initiative and works of the Kaluga Monastery of St. Tikhon's Deserts. The diorama Museum is located on the territory that in 1480 was occupied by troops who participated in the Great Stand on the Ugra.
The diorama accurately conveys the picture of those historical days when the Russian army under the command of Grand Duke John III defeated the troops of the Horde Khan Akhmat, about the end of the Tatar-Mongol yoke that weighed on Russia for 243 years, about the birth of Moscow Rus in the XV century.
The author of the painting "Standing on the Ugra River" is Pavel Ryzhenko, for whom this work was the last in his life.
In addition to the diorama itself, the museum houses an exposition of his other works dedicated to the theme of the liberation of Ancient Russia from the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Archaeological evidence of those events and samples of military weapons and armor are presented in a separate room.
Transfer to Kaluga.
Lunch.
Kaluga. Sightseeing tour of one of the oldest cities in the Russian province, beautiful not only for its location, but also for its historical buildings, architectural monuments, operating temples associated with the stay of many great people of Russia.
Today, the city center is a famous monument of urban planning, because it managed to partially preserve the buildings of the XVIII century (charming streets with merchant houses and noble mansions).
Accommodation in the Kaluga hotel.
Dinner on your own for an additional fee.