Tatarstan is 100 percent. 5-day Summer tour

07:00 Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby, check-out schedule from the hotels, see the "Important to know" section.

Departure for the excursion program in Yelabuga (209 km)

12:00 Arrival in Yelabuga.

Yelabuga — Kupecheskaya tour is the second most important city in the Republic of Tatarstan, which has a unique historical and cultural heritage.

Experience the comfort and charm of an ancient merchant town! Breathe in the air of the Shishkin forests, touch the hoary antiquity in the numerous museums of Yelabuga.

You will get acquainted with the main sights of the city: the Shishkin ponds, the "Devil's" hillfort, the Yelabuga Millennium Square, and drive through the ancient streets of the city.

Lunch.

The tour program includes a visit to the museum House of Memory of M. I. Tsvetaeva and the house Museum of I.I. Shishkin.

Excursion to the museum "Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial House". The memorial exposition of the Tsvetaeva Memorial House reproduces the setting of the Yelabuga family home in the early 1940s.

The documentary exhibition tells about the last 10 days of Marina Tsvetaeva's stay in Yelabuga, evacuated from Moscow.

Lists of evacuated writers, texts of suicide notes, a record of Tsvetaeva's death certificate, excerpts from the diaries and letters of her son, Georgy Efron, letters from her sister and daughter, the first posthumous collection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva (1961), a notebook belonging to Tsvetaeva.

Excursion to the I.I. Shishkin Memorial House Museum. The house was built by the father of the famous artist Ivan Shishkin in 1835. The childhood and youth years of the future landscape painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898) passed here.

Here he began to paint, showing extraordinary abilities from childhood, and came here in his mature years, drawing inspiration from the Kama forests and open spaces. The exhibition occupies two floors of the Shishkin mansion.

The museum has 16 exhibition halls. The first floor has been restored to what it was during the family's lifetime, there are large and small living rooms, father's study, a travel room, a pantry and a dining room; on the second floor there is a room for the artist's sisters, as well as a bedroom and workshop of Ivan Ivanovich.

The halls of graphics and painting exhibit authentic etchings and paintings by Shishkin.

Being a monument of history and culture of federal significance, the Yelabuga Museum of the Artist is the only I.I. Shishkin house museum in the world and exhibits only authentic objects of decorative and applied art, graphics and paintings of the XIX century.

17:00 Departure to Kazan.

20:00 Arrival in Kazan. Free time in the city center.

07:00 Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby, check-out schedule from the hotels, see the "Important to know" section.

10:00 "White Stone Fortress" tour. The Kazan Kremlin is the main attraction of the city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the official residence of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and the state museum—Reserve, which is visited annually by thousands of tourists.

The white–stone Kremlin is the heart of the ancient city, embodying the culture of the West and the east. The minarets of the main mosque of the city of Kul Sharif soared up here (visit) and the domes of the oldest Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation sparkle with gold.

On the territory of the fortress there is one of the symbols of Kazan — the famous "leaning" tower of Hanshi Suyumbike.

11:45 a.m. Kazan Pier. Boarding the ship.

12:00 Departure of the train for a river excursion to Sviyazhsk.

If it is impossible to conduct a boat tour: Bus tour to the island-city of Sviyazhsk.

14:00 Arrival of the train to Sviyazhsk.

Excursion "Citadel of the conqueror" — island-city of Sviyazhsk. Sviyazhsk is an ancient fortress built during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

The tour itinerary in Sviyazhsk includes unique historical monuments: the Cathedral of Our Lady "Joy of All the Sorrowful", one of the oldest wooden churches in Russia — the Church of the Holy Trinity.

There is also an active Assumption Monastery with an architectural ensemble of the 16th and 17th centuries, an Equestrian courtyard and craft workshops, and Rozhdestvenskaya Square, which overlooks the water expanses and the Uslon Mountains.

Free time is provided during the tour (independent museums, souvenir shops, lunch).

17:00 Departure of the train to Kazan.

19:30 Arrival of the train at the Kazan pier. Free time.

20:30-22:00 For an additional fee: The author's interactive program "Hospitable house of Bai".

All the guests of Kazan are certainly invited to visit the main house of the Tatar village — the house of Bai. The wealthy owners of the house, Ebika and Babai, will reveal many secrets from the way of life, customs and traditions of the Tatar people.

At the table, over a hearty lunch of national dishes (azu, triangle, kystyby, kosh tele, chak-chak), Ebika and Babai will tell their dear guests about the favorite dishes of the Tatar people through legends and legends.

A fascinating story accompanied by music will reveal interesting elements of the national holidays of the summer and winter solstice — Navruz, Nardugan, Sabantuy and other holidays.

At the end of the evening, the most intimate and interesting thing will be to get acquainted with the national traditions and customs of the Tatar people through the actors. You will get acquainted with the concepts of Su yuli, Aulok Oi, Nikah, Baby Tooe, as well as interesting table games.

Program cost: 2,900 rubles for adults, 2,700 rubles for children under 14 years old, 1,000 rubles for children under 6 years old. (The interactive event will take place with the recruitment of at least 15 people).

07:00 Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby, check-out schedule from the hotels, see the "Important to know" section.

09:30 Excursion to the "Temple of All Religions" on the old Moscow highway. The complex is an unusual architectural mix of different cultures and world beliefs — churches, mosques, synagogues, pagodas, Hindu temples, as well as beliefs of vanished civilizations.

The Ecumenical Temple is not a place for worship, but a museum and an architectural monument and a symbolic symbiosis of religions, civilizations and cultures.

Inside, the temple of all religions has several beautifully decorated halls dedicated to various beliefs: the Buddha Hall, the Egyptian Hall, the Catholic Hall, the Jesus Christ Hall; there is also a Theater hall, an art gallery where exhibitions of artists are held, a tea room.

An important component of the monument of religions is one of the rooms of Ildar Khanov's native house, in which he lived. After his death, a museum in his honor was organized in the room.

11:15 Countryside tour "The land covered with legends" to the Raifa Bogoroditsky Monastery, located 30 km away. from Kazan, in a protected forest, on the shore of the wonderful beauty of the lake.

The monastery was founded in the 17th century. Its architectural ensemble, one of the most magnificent in the Middle Volga region, took shape over the centuries. The main shrine of the monastery is the miraculous Georgian image of the Most Holy Theotokos (17th century).

A holy spring consecrated by the patriarch is located on the territory of the monastery.

14:30 Free time in the city center.

07:00 Breakfast at the hotel. Room release. Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby (with things), check-out schedule from the hotels in the "Important to know" section.

10:15 "Blooming Boratynka" tour. Visit to the museum of poet E. Boratynsky, an outstanding Russian poet, friend of A.S. Pushkin.

Arriving at the museum, the visitor will find himself in a real residential building of one of the noble families of pre-revolutionary Kazan, will see how its inhabitants lived, what they did during their leisure hours.

Museum visitors will be able to see pieces of furniture that stood in the poet's house, his personal belongings, letters, dishes, books, portraits of the poet and his acquaintances and friends, manuscripts.

The story is not only about the fate of the former owners of the estate, but also about the fate of the house and garden itself. The tour continues in the manor garden, which was fragrant in the noble nest 100 years ago with a tea party on the tea veranda.

12:00 Bus and walking tour "Kazan in parks". Parks and squares of Kazan. Like all big cities, Kazan is inconceivable without green spaces, an abundance of parks and squares. They are bohemian and democratic.

The history of Kazan parks is two hundred years old. Before that, in the 17th century in Russia there was no concept of "park" at all. That is, there were parks, but royal, boyar ones. The first public park that appeared in Kazan at the beginning of the 19th century is Black Lake. And private parks in Kazan appeared back in the 18th century. (for example, Lyadskoy, Nikolaevsky kindergartens).

Our grandmothers used to walk in these parks to the sounds of a brass band, set up dates and business meetings here, and today the renovated parks greet the townspeople and visitors with coolness from the summer heat and unusual stories from the past.

14:30 The end of the tour program. Transfer to the railway station.