Cruise excursion program Moscow (NRT) - Myshkin - Yaroslavl - Nizhny Novgorod - Cheboksary - Elabuga - Bolgar - Tolyatti - Kazan - Sviyazhsk - Makaryevo - Gorodets - Ples - Kostroma - Uglich - Moscow (NRT) from 10.09.18 to 23.09.18, Ship «Mikhail Bulgakov»
| Port | Excursions | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Myshkin |
Your choice:
1) Walking tour “Visit to the mice at the old mill” with an excursion to the old mill, the Museum of Russian Valenki, the artisans' house and Uspensky (Assumption) Cathedral. Tour length - 2-2.5 hours.
2)Walking Tour for Kids and Their Parents. Visit to the Mouse Palace. (group size: 25+). Tour length – 1.5-2 hours.
3)Provincial Kaleidoscope Walking Tour. A city sightseeing excursion, including a tour of some interesting wooden houses (Shipbuilder’s Thomson House, Myshkin Sheremetyev’s Station), visit to the old mill house with the Barn Mice display, the Victory Memorial, the Dormition Cathedral. (group size: 25+). Tour length – 2.5 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Walking-tour “Myshkin People’s Museum” with a visit to the “Mice Museum”, the “Boat Pilot Museum”, (or “Smirnoff Vodka Museum”) and the museum of wooden architecture and open air exhibition of retro auto equipment. (Group size: 20+) Program length – 1.5 hours.
| Group from 20 pax: 500 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Meet the Avdotias Folk and Recreation Program.
| Group from 15 pax: 450 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 350 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Folk show “Visit to the Miller for Pancakes»”
(Group size: 5+.) | Group from 15 pax: 350 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
The Mouse's Gingerbread. How to decorate gingerbread cookies with multi-colored chocolate? A fun hands-on experience for both kids and adults. Each participant receives 2 gingerbread cookies (shaped as a cat and a mouse) and a box full of colored chocolate (group size: 5+). Tour length – 45-50 minutes.
| Group from 10 pax: 300 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Enjoy the Green Mile private farm visit. Come and watch the calf house, the piggery, the hennery, as well as the horse stable, the vegetable garden and the fish pond. Tour length – 45-60 minutes. Travel times is 15 minutes. The distance is 4 kilometers.
| Group from 3 pax: 1100 rub. per person Group from 6 pax: 700 rub. per person | |
| Yaroslavl |
Your choice: 1) Bus tour "Yaroslavl’s Jubilee" to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Monastery. Tour length - 3 hours.
2)Historical Center Bus Tour with a stop at the Emalis Enamel Art Museum. The three halls of the museum display exhibits made in the following techniques: painted enamel, cloisonné enamel, champlevé enamel, filigree enamel, jewelry enamel. During the excursion the visitors will find out about the evolution of the “hot enamel” technique and will admire the best works of the world’s leading artisans. Each visitor has an opportunity to create his own art work under the supervision of master craftsmen. The program also involves the tour of the art gallery with a great selection of exclusive paintings, jewelry and souvenirs made with the use of hot enamel technique.
Tour length – 3 hours (group size: 35+). | Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Bus Tour with a stop at the Einstein’s Entertaining Sciences Museum. Visitors are captivated by more than a hundred animated exhibits that you are more than welcome to touch, launch and try out. You will learn to boil water without fire, measure your voice volume, build a bridge without a single nail and lift a 35 lb. dumbbell with just one finger.
Tour length – 2 hours. | Group from 10 pax: 1200 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Holy Vvedensky Tolga monastery. Tour length - 3 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 1600 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus excursion to the center of Yaroslavl City with a visit to the city zoo. The zoo area is more than 120 hectares – one of the largest in the world. The zoo is presented as a landscape park. The excursion time is 3 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 2900 rub. per person Group from 19 pax: 2450 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Karabikha Estate. You will learn about the history of the estate and its owners. You will be transported to the past and feel like a nobleman in a house where everything preserves the memory of the great Russian poet Nekrasov.
Tour length - 3 hours. | Group from 15 pax: 2600 rub. per person Group from 25 pax: 2200 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Rostov Velikiy (Rostov the Great) – one of the oldest cities of our country. This tour walks you through the city’s evolution. Don’t miss the Rostov Kremlin. (56 km from Yaroslavl). Tour length - 5 hours.
| Group from 19 pax: 1600 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Linen King in Gavrilov Yam, a city located in 50 km from Yaroslavl. At the First Guild Merchant Lokalov’s Linen Manufacture Museum located in the building of a former parochial school you will discover the story of the linen industry development, find out about merchant Lokalov and his workers. There are many authentic exhibits and documents at the museum. A tea-drinking party “in the English style” concludes the tour. There are many linen products at the museum shop. Next stop is the Aurika’s Gardens pottery enterprise. Check the furnaces which are exact replicas of 18th century furnaces, visit the production facilities where a piece of clay will turn into a masterpiece right before your eyes. You can buy ceramic ware at the shop. Tour length – 5 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1800 rub. per person Group from 30 pax: 1400 rub. per person | |
| Nizhny Novgorod |
Your choice:
1) Bus tour "City over the Volga and Oka"- story of the city in the 13th to 21st centuries.
2) City bus tour with a visit to the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin and a stop at Maxim Gorky Museum House. Group size: 35+. Tour length - 3 hours.
3) Bus tour "Russian Orthodox Cathedrals and Monasteries" with a visit to Stroganov church, Saviour (Old Fair) Cathedral, Spassky Staroyarmarochny Cathedral, and Blagoveshchensky and Pechersky Ascension monasteries. (Group size: 35+). Tour length - 3 hours.
4) Industrial Nizhny Bus tour with a visit to the Museum of City Transport. Nizhny Novgorod is one of the first cities of Russia that launched a railway tram, doing so in 1869. Rare trams of Nizhny Novgorod are exhibited in the Museum of Electric Transport. Don’t miss wagons VDN-82, RV, HDP-6, and a replica of a pre-revolutionary open platform wagon at depot № 1. Hop into the operator’s cab and try the tram driver’s seat for yourself. Group size: 35+. Tour length - 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Christmas ornament factory “Ariel”. You will visit a glass blowing workshop where you can watch the artists manually painting the Christmas decorations, following a tradition unchanged since the 19th century. You can also try to paint your own ornament as a souvenir. After the factory visit you can also stop by the factory museum (the tour to the factory doesn’t include a guided museum tour).
Check the factory shop for bargains.
Tour length - 3 hours. | Group from 15 pax: 3000 rub. per person | |
| Cheboksary |
Your choice:
1) Bus tour Cheboksary in Russia’s History. Tour length - 3 hours. (Group size: 35+).
2) City bus tour with a visit to the unique Russian Tractor History Museum. Tour length - 3 hours. (Group size: 35+).
3)City Bus Tour with a stop at the Made in Chuvashia signature shops (confectionery, textile products, knitwear). Tour duration: 3 hours (Group size: 35+ people).
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Folk program Let Your Soul Rejoice followed by a beer tasting. Tour length – 1-1.5 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Tikhvin Bogoroditsky (Mother of God) Women’s Monastery. Tour length - 3,5 hours.
| Group from 12 pax: 2100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to 2 capitals Cheboksary- Yoshkar-Ola. Tour length - 8 hours.
| Group from 25 pax: 3000 rub. per person | |
| Elabuga |
Your choice: 1) City bus tour with a tour of the Bekhterev Museum of local medicine, the Shishkin House Museum and the Museum-Estate of the cavalry-girl Nadezhda Durova.
Tour length – 4 hours.
2) City bus tour “Tsvetaeva’s Elabuga» with a visit to the literary museum of Tsvetaeva, the Memorial of Tsvetaeva, the “Portomoynya” Museum (lit. “trouser washing”), and Pokrov Church. Tour length – 4 hours. (Group size: 35+).
3) City bus tour “Elabuga’s Merchant Traditions” with a tour of the city history museum, the restaurant “Elabuga” with a tasting menu and a lecture about the history of beer brewing and the traditions of Elabuga’s merchants and brewers. Tour length –4 hours. (Group size: 35+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Bulgar |
Walking tour of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve. Visit the Bulgarian Civilization Museum, the Quran Museum, the Congressional Mosque, the Northern Mausoleum, the Eastern Chamber and Black Chamber.
Tour length – 3 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
| Tolyatti |
your choice:
1) City bus tour with a stop at the Technical Museum Park. The exhibition features military equipment dating from World War I and World War II and modern military equipment. Tour length – 3-4 hours.
2) City bus tour with a stop at the AutoVAZ Museum. Exhibits include the whole product line of cars assembled at the Volga automobile plant. The guide will introduce you to the history and development of the largest automotive plant in Russia. Tour length – 3-4 hours.
3) City bus tour with a stop at the Orthodox Gymnasium that is considered to be one of the best schools in Russia. The intricately decorated building of the gymnasium includes a museum and a unique church that is an interesting site by itself. The gymnasium does not look like a school building at all. The tour provides details about student programs, and tourists are invited for “a sit down” at the Russian Log Hut Museum of Traditional Russian Culture (a traditional Russian log hut is known as izba). The gymnasium takes particular pride in its functioning chapel – the All Russian Saints Church. Tour length – 3-4 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
| Kazan |
Your choice: 1) Historic downtown bus tour: The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Kaban Lake, Tatar Sloboda, Kazan Kremlin (The Annunciation Cathedral, Kul Sharif Mosque, Tower of Soyembika). Tour length – 3½ hours.
2) Sport in Kazan city bus tour with a stop at the Kremlin. During the tour you can visit the sports venues of the 2013 Universiade, the 2015 World Aquatics Championship and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Group size: 35+. Tour length – 3½ hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Sviyazhsk |
Historical Chronicle of a Marvelous City Tour. On-foot excursion around Sviyazhsk with a stop at the Historical Museum. Tour length: 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Makaryevo |
Excursion to the Holy-Trinity Makaryev Gheltovodsky Convent. Tour of the architectural ensemble of the 17th century and an introduction to the monastery’s history.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Nizhny Novgorod |
Bus tour to Gorodets. Trip to Feodorovsky Monastery and the fortifications. Tour to the Holy “Nicholas’ Spring”, where you will discover the history of popular beliefs, rites and celebrations.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Departure for the guided tour from Nizhny Novgorod. Bus tour "Semenov-the Capital of Golden Khokhloma". Visit to the "Khokhloma Painting" factory". Return to Gorodets by ship after the tour. Tour length - 7 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 4900 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 3450 rub. per person Group from 30 pax: 2500 rub. per person | |
| Ples |
At your choice: 1) City walking tour with a stop at The Landscape Museum.
2)Walking City Tour along the embankment, no uphill walking required. Stop at the Landscape Museum. Group size: 20+ people. Tour duration – 1 ½ hour.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
City walking tour with a stop at the museum of the famous artist Isaac Levitan.Tour length – 3 hours.
| Group from 20 pax: 600 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Privolzhsk and Ivanovo. Stop at the Krasnaya Presnya jewelry factory, one of the most respected companies in the industry carrying on the traditions of Russian jewelry art. The company shop offers a large selection of fine silver and golden jewelry at factory prices. Transfer to Ivanovo. City bus tour with a stop at the Ivanovo Museum of Printed Cotton. It is quite a unique museum, its collection comprises items made by the textile artisans from the city of Ivanovo and Ivanovo region, including old-time hand-made articles and weaving tools. Lunch at the Riatovskiy Pivovar restaurant and brewery. Shopping for textile products at the RIO Shopping Mall. Tour length: about 10 hours. Return to the cruise ship in Kostroma.
| Group from 5 pax: 4300 rub. per person Group from 11 pax: 4000 rub. per person Group from 17 pax: 3700 rub. per person Group from 21 pax: 4300 rub. per person Group from 31 pax: 3700 rub. per person | |
| Kostroma |
Your choice:
1) City Bus Tour with a visit to Ipatiev Monastery and the functioning Epiphany Convent of St. Anastasia. Tour length – 3 hours.
2) The Blessed City of Kostroma Bus Tour. Stop at the shops, farmer’s market, cheese stores, textile, linen and jewelry studios and the functioning Epiphany Convent of St. Anastasia which is known as the location of the ancient Feodorovskaya Icon of God’s Mother, a miraculous Icon of Mother of God worshiped by the Russian Orthodox Church, one of the House of Romanovs relics. Tour length – 3 hours (Group size: 35+).
3) City Bus Tour with a stop at the City Mayor Botnikov History Museum. You will find out about the remarkable person who made a difference in his city. The first city power plant, a fire station, a public library, and several educational facilities were all built during Botnikov’s time as mayor. He also introduced a mandatory house numbering system and installed telephone lines. Botnikov made personal contributions to urban improvements. The museum recreates the atmosphere of a residence of an affluent person at the beginning of the 20th century. Tour length: 3 hours. (Group Size: 35+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Legends of Old Kostroma Quest– an adventurous quest in the streets of an ancient city where each house is a mystery and each street – is history. After being assigned a mission you can discover step by step some of Kostroma enigmas, learn unexpected facts. Check out the beautiful city of Kostroma, do some photo shoots at the most beautiful places. Each team has to be equipped with a smart phone, a QR-reader, have Internet access, SMS and MMS to participate in the quest. Tour length – 1.5-2 hours (walking tour in the old city, clothing based on weather forecasts).
| Group from 10 pax: 700 rub. per person Group from 16 pax: 600 rub. per person Group from 26 pax: 400 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus Tour with a stop at the Kostroma Jewelry Plant. Tour length – 3 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1200 rub. per person | |
| Uglich |
Your choice:
2) Tour to the Leather Craft Workshop Museum. Learn about the history of one of the oldest crafts, the leathercraft of Uglich, the production of leather in Russia, the history of the legendary Russian calf leather. Visit an exhibition of antiques and see reconstructed ancient pieces, take a look at original models of leather making equipment of the 17-19th century. Learn about contemporary art: leather carving, embossing, sculptures. At the end of the tour, each of the visitors will be able to briefly become an artisan and create a magnet, take pics with the exhibits, or read his/her fortune on runes. Visit the Alexey Monastery. The tour lasts 2 hours (for groups of 15 people and more).
3) Walking tour to the Hydroelectric Power Museum. (Group size: 20+.)
4) Tour to the Vintage Scooter Bike Museum. Find out about the evolution of the bicycle. The museum displays the 19-20th century bicycles, sports bicycles and leisure bicycles, bikes for adults and kids, etc. Ride any of the museum exhibits! Visit to the Alexeevsky Monastery. Tour length 2 hours. (Group Size: 20+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Kremlin walking tour with a visit to the Сhurch of Prince Dmitry “On Blood”, the Palaces of the Princes (1st floors), and Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Cathedral. Tour length - 1.5 hours. (alternative to the main excursion)
| Group from 10 pax: 650 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Visit to museum “History of Russian Vodka”. You will hear the story of Peter Smirnoff, view different types of alcohol stills and see a display of antique bottles. Tour length - 30 minutes.
| Group from 5 pax: 450 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Visit to the City Life Museum, including an entertainment program and a tea ceremony. Please join us to find out about the way of life, traditions, customs, fashion in a Russian provincial town of the 19th century. Find yourself in a market place and a jaunty salesclerk will offer you all sorts of merchandise and will probably even invite you to a wedding or a baby shower. The hosts will be more than happy to share some herbal tea and one of the best Uglich cheeses with you.
Tour length – 45 minutes. | Group from 5 pax: 450 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
A Visit to Daria in Ivashkovo Program. The program features a tour of an old farmhouse and a farmyard, an introduction of different equestrian equipment (sledges, carts, harnesses) and peasant linen crafts. You can feed animals at the petting zoo. The program concludes with a Russian tea ceremony and pancakes. Tour length – 2 hours.
| Group from 15 pax: 1100 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
The Vintage Scooter Bicycle Museum. The museum houses a variety of bikes dating from the 19-20th century: old and new bikes, bikes for kids and adults. Are you ready for a ride? All our bikes are at your disposal. Tour length – 45 minutes.
| Group from 5 pax: 450 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Martynovo village. Tour length - 4 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 2500 rub. per person |