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Duration: 7 days/6 nights
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Red Square, Zamoskvorechye, St. Sofya Embankment, Christ the Saviour Cathedral, the monument dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy, St. Nikolas Church, Leo Tolstoy Street, Pirogovskaya Street, New Maiden Convent, the observation platform of Sparrow Hills, the Moscow State University, Mosfilm Movie Studios district, Ambassadorial Campus, Minskaya Street, Victory Park, Triumphal Arch, the superb, newly-built pedestrian Bagration Bridge, the White House, New Arbat Street, Arbat Square, Boulevard Ring, Tverskaya Street, Manezh Square.
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Day 1. Arrival to Moscow, meeting with a guide at the airport.
Transfer to a hotel in the city center.Russian Banya.
Sandunov Banyas were built in the 18th century and are named after Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov - the actor serving at the court of Ekaterina II in the 1790s.. Sandunov was married to the singer Elizabeth Uranova – a student of the theatrical school. Her talent captured Ekaterina II and the tsaritza got involved in the life of the couple. On their wedding day she presented to Elizabeth Uranova manyexpensive ornaments. Tsarina?s brilliants were sold by Sandunov to buy the ground on coast of the small Neglinnaia river, where the banya stands.
Dinner.
Day 2. Breakfast in the hotel.
City tour by bus.
During the tour you will visit Red Square, Zamoskvorechye, St. Sofya Embankment, Christ the Saviour Cathedral, the monument dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy, St. Nikolas Church, Leo Tolstoy Street, Pirogovskaya Street, New Maiden Convent, the observation platform of Sparrow Hills, the Moscow State University, Mosfilm Movie Studios district, Ambassadorial Campus, Minskaya Street, Victory Park, Triumphal Arch, the superb, newly-built pedestrian Bagration Bridge, the White House, New Arbat Street, Arbat Square, Boulevard Ring, Tverskaya Street, Manezh Square.
Free time.
Day 3. Breakfast at the hotel.
Excursion “Winter at the Kolomenskoe estate”.You will be met by a guide dressed in the National Russian costume. Excursion around the estate. Troika rides. Folklore show.
Day 4. Breakfast at the hotel.
The Kremlin and Armory museum tour: The small city in the center of Moscow, once the residence of Czars and Patriarchs, contains Russia?s main cathedral, the Assumption Cathedral. The Armory collection of gold, silver and jewelry, Faberge eggs, carriages and Czarist thrones is reason enough in itself to visit Moscow.
Day 5. Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Tretiakov state gallery.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art and one of the greatest museums in the world. It is located in one of the oldest directs of Moscow – Zamoskvorechye, not far from the Kremlin.
The Gallery?s collection consists entirely of Russian art and artists who have made à contribution to the history of Russian art or been closely connected with it. The collection contains more than 130 000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics, created throughout the centuries by successive generations of Russian artists.
Russian art works, ranging in date from the 11th to the early 20th century, are on the show in Gallery?s historic building on Lavrushinskiy Pereulok.
Day 6. Breakfast at the hotel.
Free time for shopping and wondering around.
Evening performance at the Bolshoi Theater. The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia is one of the best musical theaters in the world. The Bolshoi Theater was founded in 1776, when the first regular troupe in Ìîsñîw was organized by Peter Urussov, an educated theatrical Figure and Moscow public prosecutor, and his partner Mikhail Medoks. The troupe was formed from the actors of an earlier Moscow theatrical company, students of Moscow University, and newly engaged serf actors.
Originally the theater did not have its own building. Therefore, performances were staged in à private house of Mr. Vorontsov at Znamenka Street. But in 1780 the theater moved to à special theatrical stone edifice built on the place of the modern Bolshoi Theatre. According to the namå of the street, where the theater was situated, they called it Petrovsky Theatre. The repertoire of this first professional musical theater in Moscow consisted of drama, opera, and ballet performances. But its speciality was the opera, which explains why why the Petrovsky Theatre was mîrå often called the Opera House.Moscow tours and St.PetersburgThe troupe of the theater was not divided into opera and drama companies: the same actors appeared in dramatic and opera performances. At present, almost 2500 people work at the Bolshoi Theatre. The general director of the Bolshoi theatre is Anatoly Ixanov. The musical director and the chief-conductor of the Bolshoi theatre is Alexander Vedernikov.
The principal guest conductor of the Bolshoi theatre is Nikolay Alexseev.
The art director of the Boshoi ballet troupe is Boris Akimov. The creative team numbers about 900 actors, comprising performers of the opera, chorus, ballet, orchestra, pantomime group, children? choir.
Dinner.
Day 7. Breakfast at the hotel.
Moscow tours and St.PetersburgTransfer to the airport.
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