Kazan – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan on the ship Sergey Kuchkin

Cheboksary is the capital of the Chuvash Republic, where the dynamics of a modern city and the magic of ancient culture coexist in the most incomprehensible way, successfully complementing each other. The wide–open arms of its main symbol, the Monument of the Patron Mother, symbolize boundless supreme love and care for all people living on earth.

As part of the tour, you will have a fascinating acquaintance with the history of Cheboksary. Together we will take a walk along Cheboksary Arbat, where we will make the most cherished wishes at the Taganaite stones – symbols of the Sun, Love, Kindness and Happiness, which will surely come true… We will walk along the embankment of the man-made bay and the Red Square. Legends and facts related to the emergence of the city, its heyday and devastating falls, people, destinies, events…

Time flies by unnoticed for fascinating stories and, at the end of a short trip, we will take a ride on the 46-meter Ferris Wheel "Music Wheel", where each cabin is unique, has its own theme and musical accompaniment. From a bird's-eye view we will see an impressive view of Cheboksary, admire the beauties of Cheboksary Bay and the great Russian Volga River.

The amazing city of Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash Republic, is located on the right bank of the Volga River. Its centuries-old history remembers the settlers from the Volga Bulgaria defeated by the Khans, and the glory of the Russian fortress, and the flows of merchants from all over the world, and quiet vegetationin the role of a provincial town, and the industrial flourishing as a large industrial and administrative center.

The immersive promenade performance "Threads of Fate" is a walking tour with elements of theatricalization in wireless stereo headphones and immersing history lovers in a fascinating journey through time, ancient Chuvash legends and legends, mysterious places of the city of five centuries, bright sounds, the spirit of the old city. The participants of the audio performance will have a chance to walk across a kind of bridge of tests – tests of memory, time, history.

From the first minutes of the performance in the natural scenery of the city, you will be enchanted by the voices of famous Russian actors: Alexander Bordukov, Daniil Strakhov, Mikhail Efremov, and the reconstruction of street sounds from different years will erase the line between the present and the past.

The tour is the winner of the All-Russian tourist award "Route of the Year 2019".

There is a small republic of Chuvashia on the Middle Volga. Here, for many centuries, the ancient Chuvash people, descendants of the Suvar-Bulgars, have been reverently passing on their language, culture and desire to live in harmony with the surrounding world from generation to generation.

Within the framework of this program, you will get acquainted with the capital of Chuvashia – hospitable Cheboksary, which celebrates its 555th anniversary this year. During the tour, you will certainly notice how the original culture of the Chuvash people is organically integrated into the urban environment, you will feel how cozy a modern city can be if it relies on centuries-old traditions and the wisdom of its ancestors in its development.

Together we will take a walking tour of the administrative center of the city, stroll through the small streets, Cheboksary Arbat and Red Square. We will visit the open-air museum and the theatrical backstage of the Chuvash National Academic Drama Theater named after K. Ivanov, where you can plunge into the theatrical atmosphere of folk traditions and rituals, get acquainted with the songs and dances of the Chuvash region.

Cheboksary is the capital of Chuvashia, one of the largest industrial and cultural centers of the Volga region. Here, in the most incomprehensible way, the dynamics of a modern city, the magic of ancient culture and Orthodox Shrines coexist, successfully complementing each other.

Our journey will begin with an amazing corner — Vladimirskaya Gorka. It was here that the ancient settlement was located and it was here, even before the founding of the fortress city of Cheboksary, that "... there was already a military force" at this place, which met the first Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsky Guriy in the summer of 1555, who was instructed by Ivan the Terrible to illuminate the site of the future fortress and the main temple.

After getting acquainted with the historical events and traditions of this secluded monastery - the Savior Transfiguration Convent, we will continue our tour of the city and go to the western slope to the main Orthodox church of Chuvashia, a unique architectural monument of the XVII century, which has survived almost in its original form - the Vvedensky Cathedral.

Here, in the historical part of the city, we will see objects of cultural heritage that have survived to the present day: the oldest operating prison in Russia; the Church of St. Michael the Archangel and an Art Gallery located in an architectural monument in the Art Nouveau style of the early 20th century. Let's take a walk around K Square. Ivanov and the Moscow embankment of the Volga.

At the end of the program, we will visit the Holy Trinity Monastery and will be able to touch the shrines of the monastery, as well as worship the miraculous image of St. Nicholas of Mozhaisk of the XVI century.

You will go on a walking sightseeing tour of a small cozy provincial town located in a picturesque place on the high right bank of the Volga. The current Kozmodemyansk is divided into the "upper" new and "lower" historical parts – it is an ancient city with a rich past, with modern infrastructure and production.

You will walk along the ancient streets and squares, learn authentic facts and beautiful legends about the history of the city and its inhabitants, see the church of the Life-Giving Trinity of the XVIII century, intricate wooden and stone merchant mansions with magnificent openwork, overhead and sawn carvings, many of which have museum expositions.

You will also admire the monument of federal significance – the stone Streletskaya chapel built at the end of the XVII century and inspect the Cathedral of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, built in the XIX century.

The museum in honor of the famous adventurer was founded in 1996 on the wave of popularity of the Interregional Benderiada Festival, held annually in Kozmodemyansk. In the Museum you will plunge into the atmosphere of satire, humor and modern art, you will be able to try on the images of the Great Combinator, Kisa Vorobyaninov, the incomparable Ellochka Shchukina and become the muse of Ostap – Madame Gritsatsueva.

The Museum's exhibitions are unusual and original. It stores the products of local artists and craftsmen, fans of the work of I. Ilf and E. Petrov, both from our country and from abroad. Some of the exhibits came here directly from the festival. In the Museum, you will see where Ostap and Kisa visited in the city, how they were cut in a barbershop called "Cutting and shaving goats" and who they came out of there, what they dined at the Vasyukinsky Narpit, how Ostap's lecture and a simultaneous chess session took place. In addition, you will be able to take pictures against the background of the memorial exhibition "Ostap in the premises of the mining section of the city of Vasyuki".

One of the halls of the Museum is dedicated to the work of the master sculptor N.B. Ledeneikin, an Honored worker of Culture of the Republic of Mari El, who brilliantly uses the clay reserves of the mining region in his work.

You will go on a walking sightseeing tour of a small cozy provincial town located in a picturesque place on the high right bank of the Volga. The current Kozmodemyansk is divided into the "upper" new and "lower" historical parts – it is an ancient city with a rich past, with modern infrastructure and production.

You will walk along the ancient streets and squares, learn authentic facts and beautiful legends about the history of the city and its inhabitants, see the church of the Life-Giving Trinity of the XVIII century, intricate wooden and stone merchant mansions with magnificent openwork, overhead and sawn carvings, many of which have museum expositions.

You will also admire the monument of federal significance – the stone Streletskaya chapel built at the end of the XVII century and inspect the Cathedral of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, built in the XIX century.

During the tour, you will visit the A.V. Grigoriev Art and Historical Museum, established in 1919, which is located in a former 19th century merchant's mansion.

Russian Russian artists Aivazovsky, K. Makovsky, I. Tvorozhnikov, A. Korzukhin, V. Polenov, T. Neff, Y. Klever, K. Korovin, A. Arkhipov, N. Feshin, etc., as well as collections of antique porcelain, bone, glass and metal products of Russian, Western European and Oriental masters of the 18th-20th centuries. The museum's expositions are interesting, telling about nature, the history of the city and the region.

"Nizhny Novgorod is one of the most attractive and interesting cities I have seen in Russia," the American writer Theodore Dreiser wrote about Nizhny Novgorod. Indeed, Nizhny Novgorod is an amazing city that has been proudly standing at the confluence of two great rivers – the Oka and the Volga for 800 years, and which has experienced many important events for the whole country in its history.

During the tour, you will walk along the main pedestrian Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street with its architectural ensemble of merchant solid buildings of the XIX century, where each building contains many interesting stories and events, visit Rozhdestvenskaya Street, which in the XIX century became the business center of the city and to this day its decoration is exclusively stone buildings of different architectural styles of pre-revolutionary In Russia, visit one of the most beautiful churches in the city – the Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Stroganovskaya)…

You will visit the National Unity Square, where the Nizhny Novgorod militia was formed under the leadership of Minin and Pozharsky, get acquainted with the history of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, whose stone walls, like a pearl necklace around the neck of the Woodpecker Mountains, have been protecting and decorating the city since the XVI century, admire the panorama of the Volga distances, the Volga River and Strelka - the places where the Oka meets the Volga, you will see the modern original passenger ferry over the river is the Nizhny Novgorod Cable Car, which, according to its technical characteristics, is included in two Record Books at once - Russia and Europe. You will also hear stories from the lives of famous people who visited or were born in Nizhny Novgorod – poet Alexander Pushkin, singer Fyodor Chaliapin, pilot Valery Chkalov, and writer Maxim Gorky, whose name the city bore for almost 60 years, and others.

"This city, royally placed over the entire East of Russia, completely turned our heads" - this is how Ilya Repin wrote about Nizhny Novgorod.

You will get acquainted with the history of the ancient Russian city on a sightseeing tour, during which you will walk around the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, see the oldest temple of the city - the Cathedral of Michael the Archangel, which houses the burial of Kozma Minin, admire the panorama of the city and beautiful views of Strelka – the place where the Oka meets the Volga…

Walk along the main pedestrian street of the city - Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, where pompous apartment buildings of the XIX century and the "Stalin Empire" of the middle of the XX century harmoniously coexist; visit the territory of the former Nizhny Novgorod Fair, thanks to which the city received the nickname "pocket of Russia" in the XIX century; visit the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, learn the features of its unique architecture, People's Unity Square will plunge into the events of 1612, when Minin's call for the liberation of Moscow sounded at the walls of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin…Get acquainted with the business center of Nizhny Novgorod of the XIX century – Rozhdestvenskaya Street, where the buildings of banks, stock exchanges, apartment buildings and the ornate white stone carving of the Nativity Church have been preserved.