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Tour #16. Tsars- the Romanov
Family
14 days in St.Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Alapaevsk, Perm.
Itinerary
Day 1
City orientation bus tour The foundation of the north capital, the centre
of science and art: (The house of Peter the First. Menshikov`s and Marble
palaces. Church of Our Savior. Summer Garden and the Field of Mars).
Excursion to the cruiser Aurora. Visit of the Peter & Paul Fortress (the
first construction in St. Petersburg) and St. Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Visit of the waxwork exhibition The Romanov Dynasty in Stroganovsky
palace.
Day 2
Excursion to the Hermitage Museum, the winter palace of Russian Emperors,
second largest art museum in the world.
Excursion to St.Isaac's Cathedral, one of the largest cathedrals in Europe
and one of the symbols of St. Petersburg.
Day 3
Tour to Pavlovsk and Pushkin. The Grand Palace of Catherine, Alexandrovsky
palace and park. Visit the palace of Paul I and landscape park.
Day 4
Visit of the Alexandro-Nevsky Monastery.
Russian Museum
Day 5
Boat ride to Peterhoff. Visit of the Grand Palace, summer residence of Peter
the First and park, the masterpiece of fountain art of the 18th century.
Transfer to the railway station. Departure to Moscow
Day 6
Orientation bus tour. Romanovs family in Moscow. Moscow Kremlin. Historical
architectural complex Sobornaya Ploshad. Marfo-Mariinskaya monastery,
Novospassky monastery (the tomb of S.A. Romanov), Church of Christ the
Savior, Novodevichy monastery. Vorobjevy Gory. Poklonnaya Gora.
Day 7
Excursion Merchants and earls` Moscow Arbat street. Earls` estates.
Zamoskvorechje. Kazachja Sloboda. Merchants` estates. Tretjyakovskaya
gallery.
Day 8
Monasteries and churches of the 16th century.
Day 9
Park museum Kolomenskoye. The palace and the park of Tsar Aleksey
Mikhailovich. Spassky gates, prikaznye palaty and other architectural
memorials of the 16th century.
Day 10
Train to Yekaterinburg.
Day 11
Arrival inYekaterinburg.
Orientation tour Golgotha of Ural.
Holy Tsars Passion Bearers monastery.
Day 12
Bus excursion to Alapaevsk. Russian New Martyrs Monastery. The place of
assassination of grand dukes. Trip to Perm town.
Day 13
The town of Perm. Orientation bus tour. Saint Nicolas friary. Museum, where
the fetters of boyar Mikhail Romanov are shrined. Trip to the place of
imprisonment of boyar Mikhail Romanov (year 1601). Visit to the place of
pilgrimage of the house of Romanovs Saint Nicolas spring.
Day 14
Return to St. Petersburg
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