Please note: the choice of the tour is made when booking the tour.
1. "Gorokhovets – museum city"
Breakfast at the hotel.
07:30 Gathering in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel.
07:40 Gathering in the lobby of the Courtyard Hotel.
Excursion to Gorokhovets.
Sightseeing bus and walking tour of Gorokhovets.
The city tour will start from the Nikolsky Monastery.
The mountain on which the St. Nicholas-Trinity Monastery stands is called Puzhalova.
The ancient Gorokhovets wonderfully combines examples of civil architecture, temple architecture and magnificent natural landscapes.
Seven of the twenty surviving buildings of merchant chambers throughout Russia have been preserved in the city.
Excursion to the Gorokhovets Historical and Architectural Museum.
The house itself is a unique monument of architecture of the XVII century, an amazing example of civil engineering in pre-Petrine Russia.
The museum exhibits tell about the way of merchant life, the interiors of that time are recreated here: the master rooms, the red chamber, the basement, the Gorokhovetsky toy, carvings, needlework and much more.
Excursion to the chambers of the Tsar of Peas The house of M.I.Shorin, also known as the "Chambers of the Tsar of Peas" is a wooden mansion that is representative of the most colorful works of Gorokhovets Art Nouveau and Neo-Russian style.
The architect came up with an incredible wooden tower in shape, which contained several architectural directions at once.
Built at the beginning of the last century, it belonged to the manufacturer and shipbuilder Mikhail Ivanovich Shorin, a man of business and acumen.
Today, the House of Folk Art and Crafts is located within the walls of the house of the manufacturer Shorin.
Exhibitions of objects of the past and exhibits of decorative and applied art, made by Gorokhovets craftsmen, are held here.
Free time for meals.
17:00 - approximate return to Nizhny Novgorod
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2. Sheremetyevo Castle + lake.Svetloyar.
Breakfast at the hotel.
07:00 Gathering in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel.
07:10 Gathering in the lobby of the Courtyard Hotel.
Excursion to Sheremetyevo Castle + lake.Svetloyar.
Sheremetyevo Castle tour Sheremetyevo Castle is called the "pearl of the Volga region".
With crenellated towers and stained glass windows, it looks like a medieval one and attracts with its peculiar beauty.
This castle is amazing, first of all, for its pedigree.
Its owners were Vasily Petrovich and Olga Dmitrievna Sheremetev, descendants of a famous family.
Olga was the sister of Mikhail Skobelev, the general, the famous hero of Shipka.
The castle, designed by the German architect Rudolf Muller in the late Gothic style, also has features of Gothic, Oriental, Romanesque and Old Russian styles.
The combination of red and black bricks with white stone details is simply fascinating.
The south entrance leads to a conservatory with a glass dome.
The rooms of the castle had their own purpose.
Among them is the famous office of General Skobelev with a rich collection of weapons.
The interior of the other hall, executed in an oriental style, resembled a Persian one.
It has preserved colored marble columns brought from Italy, and Arabic murals on the instructed colored marble floor.
There is also an art gallery, an Oak room.
As a rule, all the former master rooms were connected by special passages with spiral stairs.
The Sheremetevs' estate has a large park area, on its territory there is the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Cathedral, which delights with its architecture and decoration.
Free time for meals.
Transfer to Vladimirskoye village, visit Svetloyar Lake (from April to November).
Lake Svetloyar is one of the most fantastic corners of the Nizhny Novgorod region, a natural monument of federal importance.
Its depth reaches 36 meters, it is the deepest lake in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Scientists still cannot determine the exact origin of the object.
One of the legends is the mysterious sinking of the city of Kitezh, which stubbornly resisted the Khan's troops.
You can walk around the lake, make a wish, walk around the territory or just swim.
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Visit to the KITEZH Historical and Art Museum (from November to April).
The Kitezh Historical and Art Museum is located on the edge of Vladimirsky village, near Lake Svetloyar.
The museum's expositions occupy the building of the former village school and the second floor of the children's center.
The image of the righteous city of Kitezh has made Lake Svetloyar a vivid image in world culture, and the mystery of its origin, the unique chemical composition of the water and its amazing purity are the subject of numerous scientific studies.
In the hall of the museum dedicated to Svetloyar, all the materials of the expeditions are collected and artistic images of the mysterious lake are presented.
21:00 – approximate return to Nizhny Novgorod.
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3. "Bolshoe Boldino – in Pushkin's places" (proposed from May 2024).
Breakfast at the hotel.
07:05 Gathering in the lobby of the Courtyard Hotel.
07:15 Gathering in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel.
Excursion to the A.S. Pushkin Museum – Reserve "Boldino" The State Literary Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve of A.S. Pushkin "Boldino" is one of the most famous Pushkin places in Russia.
In the ancient village of Bolshoe Boldino, Nizhny Novgorod province, there is the ancestral estate of the poet - a cultural monument of federal significance.
The original manor house where the poet lived when he came to Boldino has been preserved here, the wing (patrimonial office) and outbuildings have been restored, as well as the manor park with ancient ponds and trees left over from Pushkin's time.
A leisurely walk through the ancient parks will allow you to feel the charm of that distant era, touch the mystery of Pushkin's inspiration.
The exposition of the house museum is dedicated to Pushkin's stay in Bolshoy Boldino.
In the rooms where the poet stayed, the interiors have been recreated, which allow us to imagine the atmosphere of his Boldinsky dwelling.
The entire complex of the estate was recreated on the basis of archival documents and archaeological excavations, the stone Church of the Assumption, which was built by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's grandfather and was consecrated in the year of the future poet's birth, was restored.
Free time for meals.
In the vicinity of Boldin, there is a picturesque Luchinnik grove on six deep ravines.
According to legend, it was the poet's favorite walking place.
You will visit the village of Lvovka, the estate in which is also part of the memorial complex of the museum-reserve.
Since the time of its last owner, the son of the poet Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin, the house, the alleys of the manor park, the parish school, and the partially surviving wooden church of St. Alexander Nevsky have been preserved.
20:00 – approximate return to Nizhny Novgorod.
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