Golden Ring Railway Tour on February 23

Breakfast on the train.

07:15 Arrival of a tourist train at the railway station of Yaroslavl.

08:00 Meeting with the guide, boarding the bus (the bus number is indicated in the voucher).

Sightseeing tour of Yaroslavl. Numerous monuments of different eras have been preserved on the embankments, squares and boulevards of the city: temples of the XVI-XVIII centuries, remnants of old city fortifications, residential buildings in the Art Nouveau style. 

You will admire the Yaroslavl temples, built 400 years ago in the style of the "Yaroslavl pattern" – richly decorated, elegant, cheerful. You'll seeThe Volga embankment of Yaroslavl, decorated with gazebos, rotundas, and monuments of Yaroslavl: Prince Yaroslav and Fyodor Volkov, the Biblical Trinity and the Yaroslavl bear.

You will walk along the Volga embankment, which is considered to be perhaps the most beautiful among all the embankments of Russian cities, and see the famous Strelka – the meeting place of the two rivers Volga and Kotorosli. You will get acquainted with the rich temple architecture, with the first Russian drama theater named after F. Volkov, you will enter the cathedral built for the MillenniumAssumption Cathedral. 

You will walk to the place of foundation of the city – the "Chopped City" and learn the legend of how Prince Yaroslav the Wise founded the city. During the tour, you will take memorable photos with a thousand-ruble bill against the background of the objects depicted on it.

Visit the Church of Elijah the Prophet – an outstanding monument of Russian artistic culture of the XVII century, which entered the brightest page in the development of the Yaroslavl school of architecture and painting.

Visit to the Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve with a tour of the exposition "The Word about Igor's regiment". The tour tells about the masterpiece of ancient Russian book culture – the poem "The Word about Igor's Regiment", showing it in the context of spiritual and material culture, as well as the literature of its time.

A master class on painting Yaroslavl tiles. At the master class, you will learn the history of Yaroslavl tiles, their importance in applied art, church architecture, production technology, and the symbolism of images. You will be able to choose for yourself exactly the one that will suit you best and paint it in traditional working techniques.

Transfer to Yaroslavl railway station.

13:05 Departure of the tourist train to Ivanovo.

Rest on the train.

15:30 Arrival of the tourist train at the railway station of Ivanovo.

Meeting with the guide on the platform, boarding the bus (the bus number is indicated in the voucher).

Sightseeing tour of the city with a show of the most striking sights.

Excursion to the D.G. Burylin Museum of Local Lore. The museum's collection presents unique collections of "rarities and antiquities" with exceptional completeness and in the best samples, collected by its founder Dmitry Gennadievich Burylin, a famous Ivanovo–Voznesensk patron of the arts, collector, educator.

In the museum you will find: more than 780 thousand museum objects from antiquity to the present; antiques, porcelain, paintings, numismatics, weapons, books, decorative and applied arts, unique astronomical clocks, as well as high ceilings and elegant stairs, painted stained glass windows and stucco vaults of the museum building itself.

Excursion to the Museum of Ivanovo chintz – a unique museum that preserves the traditions of decorative and applied art of the Ivanovo region.

You will see:

• mannered books of the XIX century,
• various drawing techniques from manual printing to machine printing,
• a collection of fabrics with a history of 300 years,
• you will learn about the most famous cotton magnates of the city of Ivanovo and their role in the world weaving history.

A visit to the Cheese Museum with a tasting – here you can taste legendary varieties and completely new flavors of cheese.

Dinner in a cafe in the city.

Visiting a grocery store from local manufacturers. Here you can buy cheeses, sausages and confectionery, as well as buy fresh kvass, beer and tinctures.

Transfer to the railway station of Ivanov.

A tour of the railway station – the only constructivist railway station in Russia. Architects and historians restored the facade of the building, bringing it as close as possible to its historical appearance. Wooden furniture gives the station a special flavor, a real loom is a symbol of the Ivanovo textile industry, original lanterns above the ticket offices, large glass and round windows, a pattern on columns from the propaganda Ivanovo textiles of the 20-30s and much more.

Boarding the train from 22:30.

23:50 Departure of the tourist train to Vladimir.

Breakfast on the train.

07:38 Arrival of the tourist train at the railway station of Vladimir.

08:00 Meeting with the guide on the platform, boarding the bus (the bus number is indicated in the voucher).

Transfer to Suzdal (with travel information "Suzdal Opole") – a unique city of the Golden Ring and one of the most beautiful Russian cities, a museum city that is more than a thousand years old. There are no such number of monuments of Russian history and ancient buildings that have survived intact to the present day, unique churches and objects of wooden architecture anywhere else.

During the sightseeing tour, you will visit one of the Suzdal architectural gems and unique shrines of the city – the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery, enjoy the ringing of bells. 

You will also admire the ensemble of the Suzdal Kremlin – the most ancient landmark of Suzdal, because its construction began in the X century. You will see the ancient Nativity Cathedral, the ancient Bishops' Chambers, the wooden St. Nicholas Church, the Assumption Church and the Church of the Nativity. 

Free time in the city center for independent walks and visits to souvenir shops.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

Transfer to Vladimir.

A sightseeing walking tour of the city, during which you will admire the architecture of the Dmitrievsky Cathedral, famous for its white stone carvings, get acquainted with the greatest monument of white stone architecture of pre–Mongolian Russia - the Assumption Cathedral, inspect the frescoes of Andrei Rublev and the baroque iconostasis of the XVIII century.

You will walk along Georgievskaya Street to the Golden Gate, a unique monument of white stone defensive architecture, the only one that has survived to this day. 

Along the way you will meet many interesting characters: figurines of a learned cat and an artist, a scamp and a detective, a sculpture of a Vladimir firefighter with an operating water pump mechanism of the XIX century. You will see the symbol of the old city – a monument to the Vladimir cherry and find out what it is famous for. And from the observation decks you will admire the Assumption Cathedral and the banks of the Klyazma River.

Visit to the Gingerbread House Museum with a master class and tea party. Printed gingerbread is the most traditional of Russian desserts. At the master class, you will not only create your own unique painted gingerbread, but also learn the history of this delicacy – its types, recipe, world gingerbread traditions and rituals. And after the master class, you will have a traditional Russian tea party with tasting of branded printed gingerbread, Ivan tea and chocolate candy with Vladimir cherry.

Free time in the city center for independent walks, visiting cafes and souvenir shops.

Transfer to Vladimir railway station.

19:10 Departure of the tourist train to Moscow.

22:24 Arrival of the tourist train at the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow.

Please note: The time in the program is indicated approximately. The Company reserves the right to make changes to the tour program without reducing the total volume and quality of services, as well as to cancel the tour and/or offer alternative travel options in case of shortage of the group and cancellation/replacement of rolling stock. The schedule of the train (tourist program) may change.