Big weekend in Kaluga

07:45 Gathering of the group at the metro station Yugo-Zapadnaya (the guide meets with a sign with the name of the tour 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 and to the left (exit to Pokryshkina Street.)

08:00 Departure, travel information.

The Great Stand on the Ugra River Diorama Museum is the first museum complex in Russia dedicated to the military company of 1480. 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 18th century (charming streets with merchant houses and noble mansions).

You will make an exciting journey through the historical part of the city, you will see:

• The living rooms are a symbol of merchant Kaluga;
• The Korobov Chambers are the first stone building in the city; the place where Marina Mnishek and False Dmitry II lived during the time of troubles, who dreamed of making Kaluga the capital of Russia;
• The stone bridge, built during the reign of Catherine the Second;
• the official places where Governor-General Krechetnikov decided the fate of the province;
• The Governor's House, where A.O.Smirnova lived, is a Rosset, admired by Russian writers Pushkin, Gogol, Odoevsky, Vyazemsky, Dal;
• the building of the Noble Assembly, where Shamil, the imam of Chechnya and Dagestan, who lived in exile in Kaluga, took the oath of allegiance to the Tsar;
• the Zolotarev estate, where the august personages stayed, including Emperor Alexander I, Nicholas I, the Grand Duke, the future Emperor Alexander II;
• The City Garden, where the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and members of the royal family once walked;
• The Trinity Cathedral, where 120 years ago the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt served the liturgy.

Accommodation in a hotel in Kaluga.

Dinner on your own.