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Tour Itinerary (example)

Full Breakfast, Evening Meals and all visits are included.

Day 1 –

Depart on a morning flight to Moscow, from a London airport. Coach to our hotel in Moscow. City Tour, visiting Moscow’s highlights, including Red Square, Lenin’s tomb and St Basils. Free time for wondering around and visiting the GUM Store, a complex of ornate shops built in the 19th Century, opposite Red Square. Dinner. Evening visit to the Moscow State Circus or the Bolshoi Ballet.

Day 2 –

Morning visit to the Kremlin, including the Armoury Museum. with its impressive collection of royal artefacts, including Faberge Eggs, given by the Tsar to his wife Alexandra as presents. Lunch Break. Visit to the Museum of Contemporary Russian History. Late afternoon visit to Arbat Street, a famous central tourist market with Russian Souvenirs galore. Dinner. Evening tour of some of the incredible Metro stations of Moscow.

Day 3 –

Morning visit to the Church of St Saviour, which was destroyed by Stalin and recently rebuilt. Visit the Moscow Hills and see some of the Stalin’s Skyscrapers. Lunch Break. Afternoon visit to the Museum of the Armed Forces. Return to the hotel for dinner. Transfer to the railway station for the overnight sleeper to St Petersburg. Started as his new capital in 1703, Peter the Great made all Russian aristocrats build a palace here. St Petersburg, also known as the Venice of the North. is one of the world’s most beautiful and sumptuous cities.

St Basil's Cathedral

Day 4 –

On arrival in St Petersburg transfer to your hotel for breakfast. Morning sightseeing tour of the city’s most famous sights, including a visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress, where most of the Tsars are interred. Afternoon visit to the Cruiser Aurora, whose canons sounded signal for the start of the Russian Revolution of October 1917, the Museum of Political History of Russia, where Lenin once had an office, and Peter the Great’s Log Cabin, where Peter supposedly lived as his city was being constructed. Dinner. Evening free to wonder about the Nevsky Prospekt. This is the central street that runs through the city.

The Winter Palace/Hermitage

Day 5 –

Morning visit to the Hermitage Museum, formerly the Winter Palace, which today is the site of one of the largest museums in the world. Lunch in the city. Afternoon visit to the Siege of Leningrad Museum, followed by a trip to the Piskariovkoye Memorial Cemetery, a poignant reminder of the scale of the tragedy the city suffered and lived through during the Second World War. About 600,000 citizens are buried in the cemetery’s 186 mass graves. The slightly raised mounds are marked by year and a central path leads the visitor to the grieving statue of the motherland, symbolically a female, mother figure. Evening at the Nikolaevsky Palace for the folk evening followed by dinner.

Pisariovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Day 6-

Morning visit to Pushkin, just outside the city, where the Tsars lived in the Summer, to visit the Catherine Palace and the Palace of Pavlovsk. The style of these buidings rivals the beauty of those in St Petersburg. Return flight to the UK.

See Tour Dates page for further information

Catherine Palace

Services of a local tour guide at each city as well as your history teaching guide from England.

Date is in mid-October, exact day tba.

Cost is being finalized, approx £1190 for the 8 day programme, with the teaching workshop.

Approx £950 for the 6 day Russia visit itself.

Our Company Insurance is included. However, you need your own holiday insurance, as well as your European health insurance card (replaced E111) in case of personal injury requiring hospital treatment (or adequate insurance cover). See booking terms and conditions.