08.00-09.00

09.00-12.00

Red Square + the Lenin Mausoleum, the Historical Museum, the GUM department store and St. Basil´s Cathedral, the Garden of Alexander, a tomb of the unknown soldier . Kremlin+ one of cathedrals, In the Kremlin grounds tourists can see the Tsar Bell and the Tsar Cannon and visit the Annunciation (Blagoveschensky) or Arkhangel (Arkhangelsky) or Assumption (Voznesensky) Cathedrals, the Bell-Tower of Ivan the Great and the Church of the Twelve Apostles – all wonderful monuments of Russian church architecture with unique richly decorated interiors.

12.30-13.30

14.00-17.00

The first line with 13 stations was opened in 1935. Now there are more than 150 stations and Moscow metro, the most beautiful in the world, is the main kind of municipal transport in city. Old stations were built according to Stalin´s plan of communist propaganda. They had to prove the superiority of communism by fantastic rich design (decoration with marble, bronze statues, mosaics). Some stations look like real underground palaces. Boat trip along the Moscow River ( May-September) Novodevichy convent. The tombs of S. Hrushev- the former General Secretary Communist Party of the USSR, Vang Ming from China, Zoya and Sasha Kosmodemyanskaya, Raisa Gorbacheva)

18.00-19.00

08.00-09.00

09.00-11.30

Visit the main places of interest, e.g. the Bolshoi Theatre, then drive to the sparrow hills to see the Olimpic stadium and the building of the Moscow State University, drive along the main Moscow streets: Tverskaya, Novy Arbat Avenue, monument of Peter I. Old Arbat. Many court assistants lived here in the 16 th century; in the 19 th century, many wealthy and educated residents chose to live in the Arbat. Today the Old Arbat (along Arbat Ulitsa) is a cobbled pedestrian passage and one of the most popular meeting and shopping spots in Moscow. Along with shops, cafes, art galleries, antique stores, theatres , and a museum tracing the history of the area, are groups of painters on the pavement who sketch portraits, kiosks with every type of souvenir for sale, performing artists, and even demonstrators.

12.00-13.00

13.30-16.00

17.00-18.00

19.00-21.00

21.00-22.00 22.48

06.11

06.30-08.00

While touring through the city you will become acquainted with the architecture, history and present day life of the former capital of Imperial Russia, and the history of the Romanov dynasty. Among the rich panoply of sights to be enjoyed will be Palace Square with the Winter Palace, the Square of Arts with the Russian museum, the Smolny Convent, the famous Nevsky Avenue, the Summer Garden and the Field of Mars.

08.00-09.00

09.00-12.00

You will enjoy the classical architecture of Senate Square with its famous ”Bronze Horseman”, St. Isaac´s Cathedral and the Senate and the Synod buildings, the tip of the Basil´s island, the University, the Cathedral´s domes, the spire of the Admiralty, and many other architectural monuments, bridges and embankments of the ”Palmira of the North”, museum on board the cruiser “ AURORA” Visit to Savior-on-the-Blood Church ( Church of the Resurrection )

12.00-12.30

13.00-14.00

14.30-17.00

The State Hermitage is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world. The collections of the museum are located and displayed in 5 historic buildings in St. Petersburg, including The Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars. The buildings of the museum, by themselves, are valuable architectural monuments, chef-d´oeuvres of Western European architects.

18.00-19.00

08.00-09.00

09.00-12.00

Peterhof is the kingdom of fountains, the magical play of water that brings you back to the epoch of Peter the Great . It is famous also for the brilliant interiors of the Grand Palace. From the Great Palace of Peterhof three monumental cascading fountains (one of them comprising the famous Samson ) lead us to the Lower Park, a real masterpiece in itself, with 173 fountains on its ground.

13.00-14.00

14.00-17.00

The city´s main thoroughfare is borne across a series of islands: Admi-ralteysky Island — from Admiralteysky Prospekt to the Moika River, Kazansky Island — from the Moika to the Griboyedov Canal, Spassky Island — from the Griboyedov Canal to the Fontanka River, and Bezymyanny Island — from the Fontanka to the Obvodny Canal, finishing up at Alexander Nevsky Square. It contains some splendid buildings — Gostiny Dvor, the Mikhailovsky Palace (The Russian Museum), the Alexandrinsky Theatre, Kazan Cathedral and the Public Library. Today it is one of the most beautiful streets in the world, containing the city´s best hotels, shops, restaurants and clubs. There are five Metro stations which serve Nevsky Prospekt: "Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo", "Ploshchad Vosstaniya", "Mayakovskaya", "Gostiny Dvor" and "Nevsky Prospekt" .

18.00-19.00

08.00-09.30

09.30-13.30

The Palace-and-Park ensemble of Tsarskoye Selo - a former country residence of Russian emperors - is a fascinating monument of the world´s architectural and gardening arts of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Its three parks occupy the area of 600 ha, on which over 100 architectural constructions rise - from magnificent palaces and grand monuments to intimate pavilions and park sculptures. The compositional centre of Tsarskoselsky ensemble is Catherine´s Palace, containing exquisite decorative objects, furniture, Russian and Western-European paintings, unique collections of porcelain, amber, arms, decorative bronze, sculptures etc. Nowadays, the collection of the museum Tsarskoye Selo numbers about 20 000 items.

14.30-15.30

16.30-18.30

18.00-19.00

19.00-20.30

20.30-21.10 21.55

05.32

06.00-07.00

07.30-08.30