Moscow – Kazan on the Alexander Suvorov motor ship

For every Russian historical city, its ancient architecture is a matter of special pride. Everything in it is precious and unique - from modest houses to rich mansions and beautiful temples. Myshkin, which officially received the status of a city and a county center in 1777, has well preserved a significant part of the old buildings and the provincial merchant lifestyle.

The program includes:

• external inspection of the merchant estate of Timofey Chistov ser. XIX century (buildings have been preserved in the estate: a merchant's mansion, the house chapel of Saints Flora and Lavra, a servants' house, a guest house, a mechanical mill);
• visit to the mansion of the millionaire merchant T.V. Chistov (paintings, tiled stoves, parquet of the XIX century have been preserved in the mansion); exhibition "Eternal values of Russia. Myshkin in old photographs" (in the premises of the former merchant's carriage house);
• visit to an ancient merchant's mill (inspection of mill mechanisms - the way of turning grain into flour, visit to the exposition "Barn mice", the exhibition "Merchant shops");
• a visit to the Assumption Cathedral (among the iconic monuments of the classical period of the Upper Volga region and Yaroslavl region, the Myshkin Cathedral is one of the most striking and memorable. Even at the end of the XIX century, it amazed the guests of the city with its bold architecture, rich exterior and interior decoration. His domed space (vault) was compared to the sky). The cathedral was built mainly at the expense of the Myshkin merchant class.

The house of merchant Timofey Chistov stands on the oldest Myshkin Street, not far from the embankment. The estate, built in the second quarter of the XIX century, occupies an entire city block bounded by modern streets - Nikolskaya (Pushkin), Nagornaya, Uglichskaya.

On the territory of the estate, the main building stands out - a two-storey mansion with a mezzanine. In this house in 1866, Chistov, being the mayor, received Tsarevich Alexander. In the 1870s, according to the will of Timofey Vasilyevich, the mansion was sold by the heirs to the city for a hospital for a small amount of money, which has been located in it for more than 100 years. Since 1991, the Opochininsky Library has been located in this house, founded at the end of the XIX century by the county leader of the nobility F.K. Opochinin. The house has preserved paintings of the ceiling ceiling and a wonderful collection of tiled stoves with sculptural inserts.

"In Myshkin, the platbands above the windows are like kokoshniks, elaborately carved, twisted with ornaments, the street looks at the street, the house admires the house." Myshkin has well preserved the wooden buildings of the 19th century. An undoubted monument of wooden architecture for industrial purposes is the mill building of the millionaire merchant Chistov, built of ship pine, which has preserved a significant part of the mill mechanisms inside. The exposition "Tree of Life" is open in the grain warehouse of the mill. This exhibition is dedicated to our ancestors who lived on this land and made absolutely everything out of wood that they needed in everyday life, an example of this are interesting exhibits: a winter fishing rod, household appliances of the 19th century: a vegetable press, a grater, a churn, a bread shovel, a prosak and much, much more.

In the ethnographic exhibition "Transformations of a flaxseed" with the exhibition "Doll- my friend", guests will learn how "a shirt grows in the field"-how flax is grown and processed, what dolls our great-great-grandmothers played with, how dolls were made and what they served for. Here in the museum workshop you will be offered to work – to participate in a master class and create a linen doll with your own hands. Everyone who visits the House of Crafts will see with their own eyes the real magic, the miracle of the birth of a man–made thing! The person who works these miracles carries a rare title today – a craftsman. Our craftsmen will be happy to talk about the secrets of the craft, show traditional techniques of working with a variety of materials (clay, iron)

The XIX century is a golden age for the city of Myshkin, 2 thousand inhabitants, 500 people selling various goods, 200 of them merchants, 5 merchants of the first guild, 5 operating temples for such a number of living people, each with its own parish school. Priests are engaged in historical (local history) work, keeping church records. XXI century-three churches have been preserved in Myshkin: the oldest St. Nicholas Cathedral, the summer Assumption Cathedral and the Church of All Sorrowful Joy. Walking through the streets of the city, you will visit two cathedrals and the photo exhibition "Eternal Values of Russia. The great is seen in the small", the chapel of Saints Flora and Lavra with the performance of the vocal ensemble "Transfiguration".

The interactive jewelry class is a new modern tourist facility for guests and residents of the city of Kostroma with a meaningful excursion program and master classes.

During the program, guests:

- get acquainted with the history of jewelry making in the Kostroma region,

- learn about how artisanal jewelers worked 200 years ago, what tools and techniques were used to create jewelry,

- they will see unique ancient jewelry, some of which are more than 1000 years old,

- learn the stages of jewelry creation,

- they will be able to try themselves as master jewelers using modern equipment: work on an injector and make wax modeling.

Tourists will see the Kostroma shopping malls complex, which is one of the largest preserved shopping centers in Russia at the end of the XVIII - beginning of the XIX century.

In the center of the city there is a guardhouse, a Fire tower (which is a kind of business card of the city), the House of General Borshchov (a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812), the Building of the Kostroma Historical, Architectural and Art Museum, the House of I.P.Tretyakov, monuments to Ivan Susanin, Yu.Dolgoruky.

One of the most interesting objects of Kostroma is the Kostroma women's active Epiphany-Anastasian Monastery, founded in 1426 by the Venerable Elder Nikita, a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonzhesky. The main shrine of the monastery and Kostroma is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Fedorovskaya" (The Miraculous Feodorovskaya Icon, according to legend, was painted by the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke. It was found in 1264 by the pious Kostroma Prince Vasily Yaroslavovich, the younger brother of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky).

The exhibition "Milestones of Art" presents more than 100 works of art from the collection of the Kostroma Museum-Reserve: paintings by I.I. Shishkin, N.A.Klodt, I. K. Aivazovsky, A. Ya. Golovin, I.E.Repin, K.A.Korovin, I.I.Levitan, L. V. Turzhansky, K.Ya. Kryzhitsky, Grigory Ostrovsky, B.M.Kustodieva, the imperial hall of the Arkhangelsk Estate Museum, where paintings and sculptures from the collection of Princes Yusupov are presented;

Efim Chestnyakov is a Russian nugget artist, writer, sculptor, creator of the children's theater, "knight of fabulous wonders".

A native of D.Shablovo, Kologrivsky district, Kostroma region. The peak of creativity occurred in the first quarter of the XX century. Chestnyakov's work is difficult to fit into a standard artistic framework, researchers are still puzzling over his works. And tourists compare his work with Brueghel and Bosch.

The exhibition consists of the best paintings by Efim Chestnyakov, clay pots, documents and personal belongings of the Shablovsky master, as well as an immersive museum theater.

Efim Chestnyakov's world-famous fame was won by the canvases "The City of Universal Prosperity" and "Generous Apple", which you can see by visiting the exposition of the museum "Noble Collection".

"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 mid-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 ornately decorated white stone carving of the Nativity Church have been preserved.