Golden autumn in the Pushkin Mountains

Breakfast.

Guided tour of the Pushkin Museum-reserve "Mikhailovskoye".

Visit to the Mikhailovskoye Estate Museum, the ancestral home of the Hannibal-Pushkin family, and a tour of the park.

Visit to the museum-estate "Trigorskoye" and a tour of the park. The estate of Pushkin's close friends. The hostess of the house was P. A. Osipova-Wolf, the head of a large family. The exiled Pushkin became friends with her son Alexei and two older daughters.

Pushkin scholars are sure that Trigorskoye is the house of the Larins in the novel "Eugene Onegin", and the Trigorsk young ladies themselves considered themselves the prototypes of the novel's heroines, Tatiana and Olga.

The poetic corners of Trigorsky Park, such as Tatiana's Alley, Onegin's Bench and the secluded oak, are always popular with visitors.

Lunch.

Excursion to the Bee Farm apiary. The whole history of beekeeping awaits you, from antiquity (bee keeping) to modern technologies (beehives, honey pots, beekeeping equipment).

Visitors will learn a lot about various bee products (honey, perga, propolis, royal jelly, zabrus, etc.), their beneficial properties and applications.

In addition to the tour, you will enjoy a honey tasting and treats: herbal tea (for children), mead (low alcohol) and strong honey Russian moonshine (for adults).

In the honey shop you can buy different varieties of Pskov honey, bee products and souvenirs.

Free time.

Dinner for those staying at the campsite.

Breakfast.

Room release.

Excursion to the museum complex "Bugrovo". Pushkinskaya Village is the only open–air museum of wooden architecture in the Pskov region. Currently, there is an operating "Watermill" in the village of Bugrovo.

Visit the museum post office, where you can write letters with real goose feathers and send them to friends and acquaintances.

A master class at the information and craft center.

Inspection of Savkino. On the way from Mikhailovskoye to Trigorskoye, about a kilometer from the Mikhailovskoye Museum Estate, on the steep bank of the Soroti stands the Savkino hillfort, or Savkina Hill, as it was called in the post-Pushkin period – one of the most picturesque places of the Pushkin Reserve.

Archaeological materials have led to the conclusion that there are traces of life in the settlement of the IX–XIII and the end of the XIV–XVI centuries. A spiral road running along the hill, typical for such fortifications, leads to its top.

From here you can enjoy an excellent view of Lake Kuchane and Petrovsky Park, the poet's estate and meadows, intricately carved by the Soroti riverbed. Across the river stretches the village of Dedovtsy, past it winds the old road to Pskov.

On the left, on a hillock in Pushkin's time, there was the Deriglazovo estate, which belonged to the Shelgunov landowners, who were friends with the poet's parents A. S. and N. O. Pushkin.

Excursion to the Svyatogorsky monastery, located in the village of Pushkinskie Gory. During his exile, Pushkin was under the supervision of the abbot of the monastery, Abbot Jonah, and regularly visited the monastery.

He was able to freely use the archive and the richest monastery library, which was absolutely necessary for his work on Boris Godunov. He also visited the family necropolis near the walls of the Assumption Cathedral.

In April 1836, Pushkin brought his mother's coffin here from the capital and bought a place for himself in the cemetery. A few months later, on February 6, 1837, Pushkin himself, who was killed in a duel, was buried here. Since 1841, there has been a monument on the poet's grave.

On the granite base is carved: "Alexander Sergeevich PUSHKIN. He was born in Moscow on May 26, 1799. He died in St. Petersburg on January 29, 1837." In 1992, the Svyatogorsk Monastery was returned to the Pskov Diocese, and regular divine services resumed in the Assumption Cathedral.

Lunch.

Departure to St. Petersburg.

Estimated time of arrival in St. Petersburg is 22:00-23:00.