Mixture of 4 Cultures

Meeting with guide in the airport.
Transfer airport — hotel.
Check in in a hotel.
Dinner at hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.

City tour, during the bus tour you will visit: Red Square, pedestrian Arbat Street, Garden and Boulevard Rings. The highlight of the city tour will be a visit to the park Zaryadye.

Zaryadye is a modern park for recreation, entertainment and knowledge, created by an international team of architects, engineers, landscape designers and other experts. Here, nature and technology, education and entertainment, history and modernity are combined and complement each other. In the Time Machine media complex you will live exciting events of the past, being in the very place where they happened. You will see how Zaryadye and the Kremlin appeared, how the white-stone walls of China-City were built, how Dmitriy Donskoy was returning from the Kulikovo field and how Napoleon looked at the burning Moscow. You will witness the construction of the subway, Stalin's skyscrapers and the park “charge”. Such large-scale multimedia panoramas have not yet been to Russia, and it was the park guests who were the first to see it. You can move freely around the room, which makes you feel like a direct participant in the most important historical events for Russia. After the “flight into the past”, you go on a virtual journey through modern Russia and take a look at the most beautiful places of the country from a bird's eye view on the “Flight over Russia” attraction.

After lunch in a city restaurant, you will visit the Tretyakov Gallery, the main museum of national art of Russia, reflecting its unique contribution to world culture. This is a hospitable museum, known for its rich collection and variety of ideas presented.

Dinner at hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel.
Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.

In the morning you will get acquainted with the museum-reserve Kolomenskoye.

The favorite residence of the great Russian rulers, Kolomenskoye, is now included in the Moscow State United Art Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve. You will visit the Front Gate complex, the Church of the Ascension, the House of Peter.

After lunch in the restaurant of the city, transfer with guide to the airport.
Domestic flight Moscow — Kazan. Arrival at the airport in Kazan.
Meeting with tour guide.

Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation in the hotel.

Dinner in the hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel.
Bus and walking sightseeing “Legends and Mysteries of the Millennium-old Kazan” by bus.

Enjoy the original beauty of Kazan, see the bright colors of its streets and squares with your own eyes, learn where teeming treasures of Khans of Kazan are kept and where water boiled in a cauldron with no fire by taking the sightseeing tour. The sites of the millennium-old city combine the culture of the West and traditions of the East: Old Tatar Settlement where Tatar residents lived from the 16th century, Textiles Settlement originating as a result of industrial reforms by Peter I, fountain squares, Kaban lake with its mysteries and legends, a simulated Tatar village Tugan Avylym (My Native Village), a new building of the Puppet Show, Kazan Federal University, Liberty Square as a cultural and administrative center of Kazan. During the sightseeing tour, you will see a variety of minarets and cupolas, crescents and crosses, which is a proof of a good neighborliness of the two native peoples — Tatars and Russians.

Lunch in a restaurant.

A walking tour “White-stone Fortress”.

The Kazan Kremlin is the main sight of the city; it is a UNESCO world heritage site. The Kremlin is an official residence of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and a state museum-preserve attended by thousands of tourists every year. The white-stone Kremlin is the heart of the ancient city that incorporates the culture of the East and West. Minarets of the main mosque of the city — Qul Sharif — shoot up into the sky, and cupolas of the Annunciation Cathedral, oldest one in Kazan, shine with gold. Inside the fortress, there is one of the symbols of Kazan — the famous “leaning” tower of Tsarina Suyumbike.

National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The museum occupies the building of the former Gostiny Dvor, which is a monument of architecture and history of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan. The museum's funds were formed throughout its more than 120-year history with the participation of scientists from Kazan University and the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan collectors. The museum collection numbers more than 850 thousand exhibits and reflects the history, culture and traditions of the peoples of the Volga region and Russia, Western and Eastern world cultures. The exhibits are presented in the expositions “The Ancient History of Tatarstan” and “Kazan Province in the XVIII Century”.

Check-in at a hotel. Leisure time.

Dinner in the hotel.

Optional tour – night city tour “The Lights of Kazan”.

Do you know how streets of Kazan were lit before the electricity? You don’t? If you are still full of vigor after an extensive sightseeing program and want to see a different Kazan, to hear about a different Kazan, then you are invited to immerse yourselves into the fairy-tale-like image of the capital. Kazan will show itself to you quiet and peaceful, but still full of lights from back-lit historical and modern buildings. The tour will take place in the brightest sights of the night city.

Breakfast in the hotel.
Meeting at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing program.

Bus and walking sightseeing tour “The Amazing Yoshkar-Ola”.

Yoshkar-Ola is the capital of the Republic of Mari El. Yoshkar-Ola underwent a sea change during the last decade: the downtown was virtually rebuilt anew. So, we are not going to Mari El for history covered with dust of centuries, but to see the present-day life of the main city of this region of Russia. One of the main sights is the Square of Obolensky-Nogotkov. There are several administrative buildings there, as well as the national fine arts gallery, where a replica of the Tsar Cannon is placed at the entrance, a monument to the founder of the city Prince Obolensky-Nogotkov, a monument to the Saint Martyr Leonid — Archbishop of Mari. Moreover, there are the “Mari Chimes” — a clock at the gallery building that demonstrates one of the symbols of the Christian faith. See a clock with moving figures of Saint Apostles — the eight minutes of the Evangelic miracle. Sit on bench next to the Cat of Yoshkar-Ola that brings luck to travelers that pat him. See a monument to Pushkin and Onegin — one of the Pushkin’s literary characters. Visit an open-air museum of fairy-tales.

Optional tours:

№1 Visit to the national theater, acquaintance with national instruments (bagpipes, drum, gusli).

№2 Visit the National Museum named after T. Evseev. Ethnographic exposition “The life of the Mari from birth to death”.

Departure for Kazan.
Return to the hotel. Leisure time.

Dinner in the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel.
Meeting at the hotel lobby.
Departure for the sightseeing program.

Bus and walking sightseeing tour “The Capital of the Chuvash People”.

The city of Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash Republic, is located at the right bank of Volga river. A wooden log fortress was built on the shore of a Volga bay on the order of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century. It got the name of Cheboksary. The tour through Cheboksary includes sightseeing in the old part of the city. You will see the embankment, which is one of the most beautiful on Volga, the bay of Cheboksary, a gem of the city, a monument to love — Taganait, a monument to Vasily Chapayev, a sculpture of Mother the Patroness, an even a monument to Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov in Merchant Yefremov Boulevard.

Lunch in Cheboksary with meals of the national Chuvash cuisine.

Participate in the program “Let the Soul Enjoy!”.

It is an entertainment ethnographic program demonstrating rituals, customs and traditions of the Chuvash people. Taste a Chuvash national drink, which is beer (a replacement by juice is arranged for children travelers).

Departure for Kazan.

Return to the hotel. Leisure time.

Dinner in the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel.
Meeting at the hotel lobby. Departure for the sightseeing program.

A walking tour “The Island Town of Sviyazhsk”.

Sviyazhsk is a historical and cultural gem of the Republic of Tatarstan. At present, the place where an ancient fortress used to be is surrounded with waters of Volga river. In the past, the fortress served as a military outpost in the Volga region and a place to prepare troops for an assault against an unassailable fortress of Kazan. In the course of time, as its value as a military facility diminished, Sviyazhsk became a spiritual center of the Middle Volga. The sightseeing tour in Sviyazhsk comprises unique monuments of history: Cathedral of the Joy for All Who Grieve, one of the oldest wooden temples of Russia — the Holy Trinity Church, an operating Assumption Monastery featuring an architectural ensemble of the 16-17 centuries, Stable Yard, workshops.

Departure for Kazan.

Lunch in a restaurant.

A walking tour “Streets of Kazan” will acquaint you with the central city streets — st. Bauman and st. The Kremlin.

Bauman Street is one of the most favorite places to walk for both residents and guests of Kazan, a meeting point for people in love. During the tour, make a lot of amazing discoveries: jets of fountains, belfry and Epiphany church where Fyodor Shalyapin was baptized, a monument to Shalyapin himself, a building of the National Bank, zero milestone. Meet Su Anasy and learn the story of the Cat of Kazan whose monument always attracts crowds. Beyond competition is a replica of a luxury horse carriage used by Catherine II to move around Kazan during her visit in 1767. Shiny windows of numerous souvenir shops are so luring. Being in Kazan and missing a walk in Bauman Street — one of the oldest streets in the city — is the same as missing something most important. The Kremlin street is 1050 historical meters of the Kremlin street is an encyclopedia of the Kazan life of many centuries. The Kremlin is a business street: it has very solid institutions, post office, city hall. The buildings of this street are the embodiment of the creativity of different styles, epochs and countries. The street ends with a complex of Kazan Federal University campus buildings.

Dinner in the hotel.

Optional tours:

№1 “Ushkova`s house”.

Ushkova`s house — amazing in beauty building. It was built in the early XX century, opposite the main building of the university. Alexei Ushkov married the daughter of university professor Zinaida Vysotskaya and presented her with a house as a wedding present. Wanting to impress his wife's imagination, Alexei planned to make an extraordinary house in which all the styles and directions of architecture and art would unite. The rooms are designed in the style of Baroque, Rococo, Gothic. The house was preserved almost in its original form thanks to N. K. Krupskaya. Since 1919 the building contains the richest collection of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan. Here are a lot of students, a mansion for tourists is also open.

№2 Visiting the exhibition and entertainment complex “City Panorama”

City panorama — a place of vivid impressions, where the past and present meet the future. Expositions dedicated to Kazan, its architecture, history and stages of development are waiting for you. You will travel through the labyrinths of the streets of the Old-Tatar settlement, on the 360-degree circular video panorama, ancient photos from the life of Kazan revive. You can feel like a passenger of an old tram of the beginning of the 20th century, look at the city from a bird's eye view. On the unique models will appear Kazan of the 16th century, Kazan of the era of emperors and modern Kazan. Each building is made according to a separate project with an individual facade drawing. All house models are an exact copy of their originals.

Breakfast in the hotel.
Meeting at the hotel lobby. Check-Out.
Transfer to the airport.

Breakfast at the hotel.
Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.

Today you will meet the heart of Russia, the main attraction of Russia, the Moscow Kremlin.

At the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin, you will visit the Assumption, Archangel and Blagoveschensk cathedrals.

Then you are transported Izmailovo Kremlin, in a unique center of culture and entertainment, created on the basis of the famous Vernissage in Izmailovo.
There you will get acquainted with Russian culture, and after lunch, reincarnate into an ancient Russian artist and create your own unique masterpiece, the nested doll.

Dinner at hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel.
Meeting at the hotel lobby. Check-Out.
Transfer to the airport.