Cruise excursion program Moscow (NRT) - Kostroma - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Samara - Volgograd - Rostov-on-Don - Saratov - Ulianovsk - Cheboksary - Nizhny Novgorod - Gorodets - Yaroslavl - Moscow (NRT) from 01.09.18 to 22.09.18, Ship «Ivan Krylov»
| Port | Excursions | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Myshkin |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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 | |
| Kostroma |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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 to Sumarokovo Reindeer Farm. Tour length - 3 hours.
| Group from 1 pax: 13900 rub. per person Group from 3 pax: 5500 rub. per person Group from 8 pax: 3000 rub. per person Group from 15 pax: 2300 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 | |
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 Plyos
| 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 | |
| Ples |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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 | |
| Nizhny Novgorod |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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.
| 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 | |
| Kazan |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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 |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to the Raifa Monastery. You will find six functioning churches, the miraculous icon of the Georgian Mother of God, a holy spring and a secluded lake. Length of the tour - 4 hours
| Group from 15 pax: 1200 rub. per person | |
| Samara |
Excursion package of you choice
1.Bus tour “Getting to know Samara” with a visit to the “Stalin’s bunker” (Samara). Tour length – 3 hours.
2. Bus tour “Samara churches” with stops at Iversky Monastery, Pokrov Cathedral. Group size: 35+. Tour length: 3 hours.
3. Getting to Know Samara Bus Tour with a stop at the Art Museum. The largest art collection of the Volga region includes paintings by Repin, Surikov, Polenov and other prominent Russian painters. Group size: 35+. Tour length: 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Usovka | Included in the price of cruise | |
| Volgograd |
Excursion package:Bus tour “Hero city Volgograd. Battle of Stalingrad Heroes Memorial on Mamaev Kurgan”. Tour length: 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Sea day.
| Included in the price of cruise | |
| Rostov-on-Don |
Sightseeing Package: Introduction to Rostov bus tour. Tour length – 3 hours.
| Included in the price of cruise |
Свободное время.
| Included in the price of cruise | |
Optional excursion
City by the Sea bus tour to Taganrog with a stop at the Chekhov Shop and Alferaki Palace. Tour length – 7 hours.
| Group from 3 pax: 9400 rub. per person Group from 6 pax: 5400 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 3700 rub. per person Group from 18 pax: 2500 rub. per person Group from 26 pax: 2000 rub. per person Group from 36 pax: 1700 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Bus tour to Azov City – one of the oldest Don Region cities with a stop at the Ramparts of Azov Fortress and the Treasures of Eurasian Nomads exhibition. Tour length – 5 hours.
| Group from 3 pax: 7000 rub. per person Group from 6 pax: 4100 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 3000 rub. per person Group from 18 pax: 2100 rub. per person Group from 26 pax: 1800 rub. per person Group from 36 pax: 1500 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Pearl of the Don Region bus tour to the Starocherkasskaya Stanitsa with a stop at the Ataman Palace and the Resurrection Cathedral. Tour length – 5 hours.
| Group from 3 pax: 6800 rub. per person Group from 6 pax: 4200 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 3000 rub. per person Group from 18 pax: 2200 rub. per person Group from 26 pax: 1900 rub. per person Group from 36 pax: 1600 rub. per person | |
Optional excursion
Novocherkassk – Capital of the Don Cossacks bus tour with a stop at the Ataman Palace and the Don Cossack History Museum. Tour length – 5 hours.
| Group from 3 pax: 7600 rub. per person Group from 6 pax: 4700 rub. per person Group from 10 pax: 3400 rub. per person Group from 18 pax: 2500 rub. per person Group from 26 pax: 2200 rub. per person Group from 36 pax: 2000 rub. per person | |
| Константиновская |
Green stop.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Ильевка |
Green stop.
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Volgograd |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Saratov |
Excursion package of you choice:
1)Introduction to Saratov bus tour with a stop at the open-air National Village Museum and lemon orchard on Sokolovaya Mountain. Tour length – 3 hours.
2) Symbols of the Saratov Province bus tour with a stop at the Saratov Harmonica Museum. Tour length – 3 hours.
3)Introduction to Saratov bus tour with a stop at the Museum on Falcon Mountain. The Military Hall of Fame site displays all types of military equipment: armored fighting vehicles, aviation, artillery pieces, both modern and dating from the Great Patriotic War period. Tour length: 3 hours.
4)Bus tour to Gorky City Park. Enjoy the excursion to the City Park of Culture and Recreation — a magnificent monument of landscaping art. It is an absolutely stunning park! The park’s alleys flow around the ponds, the flower beds are beautifully constructed, the views are splendid. Tour length – 3 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
| Samara |
Excursion package of you choice:
1) Getting to Know Samara Bus Tour with a stop at the Art Museum. The largest art collection of the Volga region includes paintings by Repin, Surikov, Polenov and other prominent Russian painters. Tour length – 3 hours.
2) Parks and Gardens of Samara Bus Tour with a stop at the Art Museum. Review of the city parks history, introduction to the embankments and garden squares with a stop at the Strukov Park. Tour length - 3 hours. | Included in the price of cruise |
Optional excursion
Beer Brewing in Samara bus tour. Visit the brewery and taste beer at Maximillian’s, a Bavarian restaurant.
Tour length – 3 hours. | Group from 15 pax: 1900 rub. per person | |
| Ulianovsk |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) Bus and walking tour "Motherland of Lenin" with a visit to Simbirsk Classical Preparatory School Museum and the House Museum of Lenin. Tour length - 3 hours.
2)Bus and walking tour Charming Old Simbirsk with stops at the City life museum estate Simbirsk at the turn of the 20th century and the Simbirsk photography museum where visitors can have their pictures taken in vintage clothes of the 19th century. Tour length – 3 hours. (Group size: 19+).
3) Bus tour with a visit to Simbirsk Museum of Civil Aviation. (Group size: 35+). Tour length - 3 hours.
4)Domes of Simbirsk Bus & Walking Tour with stops at the Germanovskaya church, Simbirsk Chuvash school. Apartment of Ivan Yakovlev museum, Descent of the Holy Spirit Cathedral to the Apostles, the site of the Pokrov Savior and Ascension Monastery in the Name of All Saints. Tour length – 4 hours (group size: 19+).
| Included in the price of cruise |
| Cheboksary |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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 | |
| Nizhny Novgorod |
Excursion package
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 | |
| Yaroslavl |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
1) Bus tour "Yaroslavl’s Jubilee" to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of the Saviour) Monastery. Tour length - 3 hours.
2) Bus tour "Yaroslavl’s Jubilee" with a visit to the art museum. (Group size: 35+.) Tour length - 3 hours.
3)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 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 | |
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 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 | |
| Uglich |
Your choice of shore excursion packages:
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
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
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
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
Bus tour to Martynovo village. Tour length - 4 hours.
| Group from 10 pax: 2500 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 |