This tour will take you right to the natural border between Europe and Asia, the city of Ekaterinburg that has a lot to tell about the last days of life and the death of the last Russian tsar – Nicolas II. This city was the last shelter for the tsar and his family, and right there, in Ganina Yama, were secretly buried their bodies.
You will then go to Perm and will see the Kungur ice cave which is one of the most popular attractions of the Urals. It is one of the largest gypsum caves in European Russia, the seventh longest gypsum cave in the world.
And then again, your travel experience will be enriched with a visit to the home town of Piotr Tchaikovsky, one of the great composers in the history of music, and his House-Museum. That’s not all. Your cultural path will continue with Yelabuga where you will visit the museums of Ivan Shishkin, the painter, of Nadezhda Durova, the writer, and of Vladimir Behterev, the psychiatrist.
This is just a starter for one of the most interesting and beautiful places in Russia – the city of Kazan. You will admire its Kremlin, declared a World Heritage Site in 2000, which unites two religions –Orthodoxy and Islam.
Near Kazan there is an island of Sviyazhsk, the fortress built in the XVI century under Ivan the Terrible.
Meeting with our guide at the airport (or at the train station) and excursion to the Obelisk on the Border Between Europe and Asia located at the junction of the two parts of the world. You will perform the ritual of crossing the border and learn the history of the development of Ural and Siberia by the Russian State. We will continue our tour by visiting places related to the history of the family of the last Russian Emperor – Nicholas II: the Church on Blood (also known as the Church of All Saints) erected on the spot of the execution of Nicholas II and his family, “Ganina Yama”, a unique Orthodox monastery built on the site where the remains of the members of the Romanov family were first secretly kept. Lunch. After lunch we will visit the Museum of the first president Boris Yeltsin – the central part the Yeltsin Center – and make the panoramic tour during which we will see its main places of interest including the viewpoint of the skyscraper “Vysotsky” (188 meters, 54 floors). Typical Russian dinner. Transfer to the hotel and accommodation.
Breakfast. Check-out from the hotel and transfer from Yekaterinburg to Kungur by bus. Arrival to Kungur and lunch. Visit to the Kungur Ice Cave and brief panoramic tour of the city of Kungur. Transfer to Perm – during this trip you will learn about the city. Dinner at the local restaurant and departure from Perm to Izhevsk by bus. Late arrival to Izhevsk, transfer to the hotel and accommodation.
Breakfast. Departure to Votkinsk, a hometown of Piotr Tchaikovsky – one of the great composers in the history of music. Panoramic tour with a visit to the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum. Return to Izhevsk. City tour with the visit to the Armorers’ Square, the St. Michael’s Cathedral and the Kalashnikov Museum with a wide collection of all kinds of weapons that have been manufactured during 200 years of production of arms in Izhevsk. After you will visit the National Museum of Udmurtia – one of the richest in the Urals. The museum contains a unique collection of historical, archaeological and ethnographic objects. Dinner. Transfer to the hotel and accommodation.
Breakfast. Check-out from the hotel and departure to Yelabuga – a city located in the north-east part of Tatarstan at the confluence of the rivers Toyma and Kama, 215 kilometers to the East of Kazan. Arrival and meeting with guide at the Yelabuga city center. Today you will visit: the Memorial House of the famous painter Ivan Shishkin, the Museum of Nadezhda Durova and the Vladimir Bekhterev Museum of District Medicine. Lunch. Transfer to Kazan. Dinner. Transfer to the hotel and accommodation.
Breakfast. Panoramic tour during which you will visit the most interesting and ancient attractions of Kazan: Old-Tatar Sloboda, the Kaban Lake with its picturesque views, merchant houses, and the old mosque of the XVIII century. You will also hear the legends and stories of Tatar people. You will enjoy walking along the old city of Kazan and visit the monastery, where the miraculous icon “Our Lady of Kazan” is kept. Lunch. Walking excursion to the Kazan Kremlin, declared a World Heritage Site in 2000, which unites two religions – Islam (the legendary Kul Sharif Mosque) and Orthodoxy (the Annunciation Cathedral). You will touch the walls of the Söyembikä falling tower. Dinner in a restaurant. Transfer to the hotel. Free time.
Breakfast. Check-out from the hotel. Excursion to Sviyazhsk – a village located on the island of the same name. The history of the village begins on May 24, in 1551, when Ivan the Terrible decided to build a wooden fortress on the island. Sviyazhsk became a base which supported Russian troops in the war against the Kazan Khanate. Lunch. Return to Kazan. Dinner. Transfer to the airport or railway station.
*Please, take note that we reserve the right to change the order of visits.
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