Our Chinese department:
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 restaurant "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 tour.
The Polotnyany Zavod Estate Museum. A tour of the ceremonial halls of the Goncharov house. A. Pushkin's wife, Natalia Goncharova, lived here, and the poet himself came.
You can stroll through the park, see the poet's favorite alley, gazebo and monument to Alexander Pushkin. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the founder of the family, Afanasy Abramovich Goncharov, founded a sailing and paper manufactory here. The paper mill has not stopped its work since its foundation. The Goncharov Estate is a unique example of an 18th-century manor house, which organically includes factory buildings.
The BUZEON Museum is an interactive paper museum where you will have a unique opportunity to plunge into the 300-year history of paper production: from its inception to modern technologies. There are interactive whiteboards where you can study how ancient paper was made, and samples of this very paper.
The museum is located in an ancient 18th-century building, which once housed the Goncharov paper manufactory. At first, paper was a by-product of Pushkin's wife's relatives, then it was made from waste from sailing production. But in 1720, the factory began to operate as an independent company and has not stopped since.
Lunch. Transfer to Kaluga.
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 at the hotel.
Dinner on your own is not included in the program.
