Weekend tour from St. Petersburg. Pskov – Izborsk – Pechory – Pushkin Mountains

09:00 Breakfast.

Visit to the Pushkin Museum-Reserve, which includes the Mikhailovskoye, Petrovskoye, Trigorskoye and Svyatogorsky Monastery estates. Excursion to Mikhailovskoye– the ancestral estate of A. S. Pushkin's mother, his poetic homeland, the place of the poet's spiritual formation.

Excursion to "Trigorskoye" – "the shelter of the radiant muses dressed" — the house of friends of A. S. Pushkin, a place that became his second home during the years of Mikhailovsky exile. Priceless Pushkin poems are dedicated to the inhabitants of Trigorsky, the Trigorsky realities of the novel "Eugene Onegin" are vividly felt here.

Trigorsky Park is a monument of landscape art of the second half of the 18th century. Separate corners of the park bear names associated with the writing of the novel "Eugene Onegin": "Tatiana's Alley", "Onegin's bench" and "the secluded oak".

Lunch.

Excursion to the Bee Farm apiary. On the territory of the apiary there are exhibits on the development of beekeeping from antiquity to modern beekeeping technologies: various types of beehives, beehives, traps for bees, ancient means of protecting beehives from bears.

An experienced beekeeper will tell you a lot of interesting things about various bee products (honey, perga, propolis, royal jelly, zabrus, etc.), about their beneficial properties and applications.

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

In the honey shop you can buy various types of Pskov honey, bee products and various souvenirs.

Inspection of Savkino. A kilometer from Mikhailovsky, on the shore of the Soroka River, stands the Savkino hillfort, or Savkina Hill.

Dinner for those staying at the campsite.

09:00 Breakfast.

Visit to the Petrovskoye estate, an estate donated by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to the poet's great—grandfather, a native of Africa, godson, pupil, associate of Peter I, Abram Petrovich Hannibal, named by him in honor of his great benefactor.

The museum's exposition provides visitors with a wealth of information about the life and work of the Hannibals of three generations, who passed through Pushkin's interest in their ancestry, reflected in his work.

Excursion to the Svyatogorsky monastery. The Holy Dormition Monastery of Svyatogorsk was founded by order of Tsar Ivan IV and has been one of the most revered in Russia since ancient times.

Buried in the monastery at the Hannibal-Pushkin family cemetery are: the poet's grandfather Osip Abramovich Hannibal, grandmother Maria Alekseevna, mother Nadezhda Osipovna and father Sergei Lvovich.

The Svyatogorsk Monastery became the last earthly shelter for Pushkin. Visit to the grave of A. S. Pushkin.

Lunch.

Excursion to the Sergei Dovlatov House Museum (starting in May). Sergey Dovlatov is one of those writers who have managed to preserve history in their works. Fortunately, there are still preserved, one might even say miraculously, material witnesses of that era.

Thanks to them, today we can not only imagine, but also see the conditions in which Sergei Dovlatov lived in the 1970s, when he conducted excursions in the Pushkin Museum-Reserve.

The creators of the museum "Dovlatov's House in the Reserve" in the village of Berezino have done everything possible to preserve the atmosphere and spirit of the era.

Now this unsightly building has become a monument to the writer, literature, history, and the difficult fate of a Soviet man.

Departure to St. Petersburg (400 km). Arrival in St. Petersburg at about 23.00.