Moscow – Samara – Kazan on the Moonlight Sonata ship

For those who will be able to join the cruise only on 11.11.2024:

14:00-14:30 – meeting of guests at the building of the Northern River Station by representatives of the cruise company.
14:30-18:30 – transfer to Uglich.
18:30-21:00 – walking tour of merchant Uglich with a visit to the museum of urban life.
(Luggage stays on the bus during the tour).
21:00 – check-in on board. Dinner for guests with transfer.

• "Walking tour of the city of Uglich with a visit to the Alekseevsky Monastery and the Museum of the Leather Craft Workshop"
  In the museum of leather craft, visitors will learn the history of one of the most ancient crafts of mankind, the Uglich leather craft, domestic leather production, the history of the legendary Russian yuft, and also get acquainted with foreign production technologies. Guests will see an exhibition of antiques and reconstruction of ancient products, original models of leather production equipment from the 17th and 19th centuries. They will get acquainted with the modern art of the 21st century: leather carving, embossing, sculptural technique, at the end of the tour there will be a master class.
  
  A visit to the current women's Alekseevsky monastery, which houses the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "The Unquenchable Candle", the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, painted by Athos monks, lost and miraculously returned to its monastery.
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Walking tour of merchant Uglich with a visit to the museum of urban life"
  The path will take you along the embankment, where you can enjoy a beautiful view of the Volga River. Tourists will cross Selivanovsky Creek, see the military enlistment office building, which previously housed a linen factory, and hear a story about the owners of the factory and their occupation. The guide will tell you about modern production in Uglich – cheese and watch factories. The guests will learn about the Suponevsky Palace and its secret, as well as about the trace left by the construction of the hydroelectric power plant in the history of the city.
  
  Then the guests will visit the temple of the Korsun Icon of the Mother of God, if possible they will be met by the priest – rector of the temple. The walk will continue along the central Yaroslavskaya street with a story about interesting facts from the life of merchants who lived on it. Upon entering the central square of the city of Uspenskaya, guests will find themselves in the Museum of Urban Life, located in the building of the former city public library. After crossing the threshold of the museum, tourists will get acquainted with the life and everyday life of a provincial city of the XIX century, learn about the structure of a prosperous house, about the way of life, traditions, customs, leisure, fashion of the Uglich at that time. Guests will visit a fun fair, where a broken-down clerk with jokes and jokes will offer all kinds of goods, and also, guests will find out how the showings and weddings took place.
  
  The tour ends at Assumption Square.
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Walking tour of Uglich with a visit to the museum of unusual bicycles "SAMOKAT""The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Walking tour of Uglich with a visit to the pottery workshop"The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Walking tour of Uglich with a visit to the Museum of prison Art"The tour is included in the price.
  

• "Bus tour of the city with a visit to the Church of John the Baptist and the Transfiguration Monastery"
  Yaroslavl has been standing for more than a thousand years. According to legend, it was founded by Yaroslav the Wise at the place where he defeated the bear. Experts say that this is just a beautiful legend. And the residents of the city point to the city coat of arms, on which this wild beast flaunts.
  
  Nowadays Yaroslavl is a museum city that has preserved a huge number of architectural monuments. Travelers will visit the ancient Bogoyavlenskaya Square and learn the history of the oldest theater in Russia. They will admire the Assumption Cathedral, built near the arrow of the Volga and Kotorosli rivers, and visit the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, whose walls have protected the city more than once since the XII century. Every tourist has heard about this monastery in the lessons of not only history, but also literature: here in the XVIII century they found the "Word about Igor's regiment".
  
  Travelers will certainly be amazed by the Church of John the Baptist, which is considered the most artistic Yaroslavl temple. By the way, its outlines will seem familiar even to those who have not been to Yaroslavl before: it is she who decorates the 1000-ruble bill.
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Bus sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the Museum of Foreign Art and the Garden of exotic plants"
  The tour will allow you to take a fresh look at the works presented in the Museum of Foreign Art - not only to examine the works of European painters and artists from Japan and China, but also to get acquainted with the flavors that they store.
  
  Tourists will "hear" the aromas that could have been felt several centuries ago: on the Dutch market square, at an Italian wedding, in the boudoir of a French lady and in a Spanish tavern. In the hall of the East, tourists will have a master class on making fragrant sachets, they will try their hand at the art of making incense - kodo. Everyone will receive a souvenir made with their own hands (in good weather, a master class is organized in this garden).
  
  At the end of the program, guests will be able to walk through the garden of exotic plants, where they will see Japanese sakura, apricot trees, Manchurian walnut, pug pine, hybrid peonies, Japanese cherry.
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Bus sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the V. Orlov Museum"
  Yaroslavl has been standing for more than a thousand years. According to legend, it was founded by Yaroslav the Wise at the place where he defeated the bear. Experts say that this is just a beautiful legend. And the residents of the city point to the city coat of arms, on which this wild beast flaunts.
  
  Nowadays Yaroslavl is a museum city that has preserved a huge number of architectural monuments. Travelers will visit the ancient Bogoyavlenskaya Square and learn the history of the oldest theater in Russia. They will admire the Assumption Cathedral, built near the arrow of the Volga and Kotorosli rivers, and visit the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, whose walls have protected the city more than once since the XII century. Every tourist has heard about this monastery in the lessons of not only history, but also literature: here in the XVIII century they found the "Word about Igor's regiment".
  
  During the tour, tourists will visit the V.Y. Orlov Museum. The museum is located in the House of the Society of Doctors and is named in memory of Vadim Orlov, a patron of the arts, an honorary citizen of Yaroslavl. The basis of the museum is the collection of V. Orlov: porcelain of the XVIII–XX centuries of Russian and foreign factories, cast iron, silver, household items. The building of the House of the Society of Doctors itself is of interest – a federal architectural monument of the XVII-XIX centuries, restored with private funds.
  The tour is included in the price.
  

• "Bus tour of Nizhny Novgorod in the evening"
  A great time for walking is the dark part of the day. Night tours of Nizhny Novgorod are an exciting adventure and an opportunity to explore long—known sights from a different point of view.
  
  In the evening, the city becomes especially attractive. Thanks to the large number of bright lanterns and lights, Rozhdestvenskaya Street becomes even more alluring and colorful. And walking along it at this time is a pleasure. Here, in one of the most ancient and original places of the city, you will meet dozens of interesting buildings of different architectural styles and eras, and hear many legends associated with this place.
  
  Thanks to the illumination, it is easy to navigate the city from the observation deck. The lights of the bridges help to determine the location of the Oka, Volga, and Strelka. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Main Fair House, the ensemble of the Annunciation Monastery with its symbol — the Trumpeting Angel, the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium look beautiful and festive.
  
  Night tours of Nizhny Novgorod help you see the real city without being distracted by the hustle and bustle that reigns on the streets during the day and the blinding sunlight. You have a leisurely walk ahead and the streets of the city covered with mysticism.
  The tour is included in the price.
  

• "Bus tour with a visit to Orthodox churches and monasteries of Nizhny Novgorod"
  Orthodox churches and monasteries are a world of silence, prayer, they are both witnesses of history and guardians of beauty. Unique temples have been preserved in Nizhny Novgorod, including the Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Stroganovskaya) – a wonderful example of baroque architecture of the XVIII century, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, which contains 188 icons of the Virgin, the old fair cathedral – a witness to the dramatic events of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair.
  
  The spirit of the times and the pace of history are felt in the Pechersk Ascension Monastery. You can walk along the Romanov Alley, look at the rulers of the Russian state. The founder of the Pechersk Monastery, Dionysius, his disciples Euthymius and Macarius, as well as Schemamonk Iosaaf, were canonized. This monastery is associated with dramatic events not only in Nizhny Novgorod, but also in Russia.
  The tour is included in the price.
  

• "Bus and pedestrian sightseeing tour with a visit to the Spirit of the Golden Horde Museum"
  During the parking of the cruise ship in Kazan, we invite you to a sightseeing tour "National color". You will have a fascinating journey through the very heart of Tatarstan, in which every corner is saturated with history.
  
  Together we will visit the Old Tatar settlement. A walk through this historical quarter of Kazan will instantly take you into the atmosphere of bygone years, because here, through the years, antiquity and originality have been preserved. The stone mosques of Marjani and Apanaevskaya, the museum in the form of an ancient Tatar house, the exposition of Kayum Nasyri and many bright buildings – get your phones ready to capture all this beauty!
  
  The history of the Golden Horde can be studied in the Kazan Kremlin, on the territory of the Cannon Yard, in the museum "Spirit of the Golden Horde". Opening the door slightly, you enter a beautiful authentic hall, the design solution of which is the merit of the director of the museum, Yulia Andreevna Stepanova. You will immediately see Genghis Khan himself, the golden leader, who proudly sits on his throne surrounded by horsemen with gleaming sabers and burning eyes. The realism of the composition is achieved by the talent of the masters: sculptor Alexander Bochkarev and artists Ruslan Ibragimov and Valery Blokhin.
  
  The excursion into history begins with the birth of Temujin, and continues with no less significant conquests of his descendants. All this is shown with the help of beautiful reconstructions of artifacts, paintings and miniatures. Mongolian waist linings, patterns on armor and helmets eventually came into use by many medieval warriors. One of the most striking examples of this is the coat of Ivan the Terrible, decorated with a gold notch in an Arabographic pattern. The museum presents several types of armor, helmets, sabers and a recursive bow, ingenious in its design.
  
  And although the Mongols were noted in history first of all as excellent warriors and great conquerors, their history is not limited only to the war, the Silk Road is an ancient trade artery running from distant China to the Black Sea coast. There is a cauldron in the hall, but what a cauldron! It's not a shame to name a city after such a thing! There are Horde ceramics – the reconstruction of the potter Elizaveta Borisova, and the highlight of the program – expensive silks from the east.
  
  In the century, as a result of prolonged civil strife, this state broke up into several separate khanates, which were then successively annexed to the Russian state, Of course, the centuries-old relations between Russia and the Horde did not pass without a trace, and after the annexation of new lands, local peoples continued to influence the history of Russia as its citizens. The guides will tell you about the variety of words that have entered the Russian language, about the political, cultural and economic finds of the Horde, some of which are not outdated to this day.
  
  
  
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Bus and pedestrian sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the Museum of Islamic Culture"
  During the parking of the cruise ship in Kazan, we invite you to a sightseeing tour "National color". You will have a fascinating journey through the very heart of Tatarstan, in which every corner is saturated with history.
  
  Together we will visit the Old Tatar settlement. A walk through this historical quarter of Kazan will instantly take you into the atmosphere of bygone years, because here, through the years, antiquity and originality have been preserved. The stone mosques of Marjani and Apanaevskaya, the museum in the form of an ancient Tatar house, the exposition of Kayum Nasyri and many bright buildings – get your phones ready to capture all this beauty!
  
  You will read the "memory card" of Kazan, on which its entire history is recorded – the Kazan Kremlin. The ancient heart of the city beats behind the impregnable walls of the white stone complex. Famous architectural monuments, palaces, mosques and towers tell their stories to the guests and harmoniously fit into the modern landscape of the capital of Tatarstan.
  
  On the territory of the Kremlin there is one of the business cards of Kazan – the Kul Sharif Mosque, which houses the museum of Islamic culture. Visiting it as part of our tour, you will get acquainted with the role of Islam in the history of the Tatar people, as well as learn about the peculiarities of the Muslim traditions of the peoples of the Volga region. Attention will be attracted by the interactive exhibit "Flipping the Koran", which will allow you to hear surahs performed by famous reciters, as well as understand the explicit and secret meanings of the Holy Scriptures.
  The tour is included in the price.
  

• "Bus tour of Samara with a visit to the Museum-estate of A.N. Tolstoy"
  A tour of the most famous literary places of the city will tell you what role Samara played for such famous writers as Maxim Gorky, Alexey Tolstoy, Aksakov and Garin-Mikhailovsky and many other poets and writers.
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "A bus tour of Samara with a visit to the Aviation and Cosmonautics Museum of the National University named after The Queen"
  The history of the development and formation of the aviation and space industry of the city. Unique exhibits, cosmonauts – natives of the Samara region, famous designers and creators of rockets and rocket engines – all on our "space" excursion!
  The tour is included in the price.
  

The last meal service is dinner.