Visitor guide
V. TOUR "FOR THE FRIENDS OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE"
(11 days / 10 nights)
The tour will give you a chance to get acquainted with life and creative
activity of two most famous representatives of the Russian literature : Pushkin
and Dostoevskiy.
This tour starts in St.Petersburg, where they spent their childhood,
where they wrote their first works. Tourists will visit old Russian towns,
monuments and landscapes, which inspired these writers for creation of their
literary works.
1ST DAY : ST.PETERSBURG
- arrival at the airport "Pulkovo"
- transfer: airport - hotel
- check in the hotel of the 1st category
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
2ND DAY : ST.PETERSBURG
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- city tour
- lunch
- visit to Hermitage
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
3D DAY : ST.PETERSBURG
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- tour "Literary St.Petersburg" including visits to the sites connected with
"Crime and Punishment" novel, museum of Dostoevskiy
- lunch at a restaurant
- free time
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
4TH DAY : ST.PETERSBURG - PUSHKIN
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- tour of Pushkin, including visit to Catherine palace and Lyceum
- lunch at a restaurant in Pushkin
- free time
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
5TH DAY : ST.PETERSBURG - NOVGOROD
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- departure to Novgorod by bus
- accommodation at the "Intourist" hotel
- lunch at the hotel restaurant
- sightseeing tour
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
6TH DAY : NOVGOROD
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- tour to the museum of wooden architecture "Vitoslavitsy",
- lunch in the restaurant of Russian cuisine "Detinets" (Kremlin)
- tour to the museum of History and Art
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
7TH DAY : NOVGOROD - STARAJA RUSSA - PSKOV
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- trip to Staraja Russa by bus
- a sightseeing tour including museum of F.M. Dostoevskiy
- lunch at the restaurant "Polist"
- trip to Pskov by bus
- accommodation at a hotel
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
8TH DAY : PSKOV
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- sightseeing tour
- lunch at the restaurant
- visit to Mirozhskiy monastery
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
9TH DAY : PSKOV
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- visit to Pushkin's estate
- lunch at a restaurant
- dinner at a restaurant
- overnight stay
10TH DAY : PSKOV - ST.PETERSBURG
- breakfast at the hotel restaurant
- bus trip to St.Petersburg
- accommodation at a hotel
- lunch at the hotel restaurant
- free time
- dinner at the hotel restaurant
- overnight stay
11TH DAY : ST.PETERSBURG
- breakfast in the hotel restaurant
- transfer: hotel - airport "Pulkovo"
Cost of tour per person : season (01.05-30.09) - 719 USD, off-season
(01.10-30.04) - 649 USD (groups of 15 persons).
The cost includes: escort of the group throughout the itinerary,
transfers, delivery of two pieces of luggage per person upon arrival and
departure, accommodation in double rooms of the hotels of 1st category,
meals three times a day at hotels restaurants and city ones, in Novgorod they
will try traditional Russian cuisine, sightseeing tours and transport services,
booking of the train tickets and trip by overnight train "Novgorod-Moscow" in a
4-berths compartments. Extra payment for accommodation in a single room - 165 USD.
The cost does not include insurance, medical aid and air fair to Russia
and back to the country.