Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod

Day 1. Moscow

Arrival in Moscow. Meeting at the airport (the driver will be holding the sign “Russia Travel Group”).
Transfer to the hotel (breakfast is included). Accommodation for 1 night.
Check – in.

Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby. Departure to excursion.
The tour of Moscow City will present you one of the most beautiful sights of the capital of Russia.
The Moscow city tour certainly will include the Red Square with the Kremlin, St.Basil's Cathedral and GUM Department Store. Then you’ll enjoy the panorama of Moscow from Sparrow hills. Turn around and watch the main building of Moscow State University. Local vendors will offer you matrioshkas and military shapkas and other souvenirs.
Next point in the itinerary is the Novodevichy Convent, situated not far from Luzhniki Olympic Stadium, on the bank of a small lake with white swans. That will remind you of Swan Lake at Bolshoi theatre.
Continuing the city tour, you will pass along Kutuzov avenue and visit the Victory Park with its memorials, fountains and churches. Free time for shopping, picture taking.

Transfer to the hotel.

Optional evening performance in the Bolshoi theatre.

Day 2. Moscow 

8.00-9.30am Breakfast at the hotel.
10.00am Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby. Departure to excursion.

Kremlin tour with visit to the Cathedrals. The Kremlin has always been perceived as a symbol of power and might of the Russian land. Each era of the Russian history left its architectural mark on the Kremlin. Within the Kremlin walls there are many architectural monuments, churches, cathedrals, museums, etc.
Optional lunch in the city center. (Traditional Russian cuisine with vodka tasting).
After lunch we continue exploring Moscow downtown and feel the heartbeat of Russia on the famous Red Square widely known as the sight where the military parades were held during Soviet time. Then you’ll find yourself near the brightest symbol of the city – the extraordinary St.Basil Cathedral with its joyful multi-colored domes. Wander through the aisles of the enormous GUM shopping mall– a stunning architectural masterpiece of the late 19th century now facing the official residence of President of Russia – the Kremlin Senate and see the famous Saviour Chimes - a symbol of Moscow. Go down and up the moving stairs of the new underground shopping mall Okhotny ryad decorated with marbles, glass and fountains. You will see the legendary Moscow Metro with its mosaics and frescos.

Check-out.

Transfer to the railway station. Departure for Nizhny Novgorod by overnight train (kupe).

Day 3. Nizhny Novgorod

Arrival in Nizhny Novgorod. Meeting at the train station (the driver will be holding the sign “Russia Travel Group”).
Transfer to the hotel located in the city center. Accommodation for 1 night.

10.00am Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby. Departure to excursion “City tour”.

During the Nizhni Novgorod city tour you will visit the Nizhni Novgorod Kremlin, you will see Minin and Pozharsky Square, Bolshaia Pokrovskaia Street, Gorky Square and cross the historical central part of the city. In previous centuries, Nizhni Novgorod was a commercial hub of Russia, located at the strategic confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers. Today it is the "test site" for democratic reform and free market initiatives. If transition to a peaceful, democratic future is to occur in Russia, Nizhni Novgorod will be the pacesetter. You are a first-hand witness to a unique historical phenomena, a society moving from totalitarianism to democracy with all its ups and downs, joys and sorrows.

Return to the hotel.

Day 4. Nizhny Novgorod
 
8.00-9.30am Breakfast at the hotel.
10.00am Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby. Departure to excursion.

Art Museum of Nizhny Novgorod. The city art museum in Nizhny Novgorod was opened to the public in 1896. At first the collection was housed in one of the towers of the Nizhni Novgorod Kremlin. In 1924 the collection was removed to a beautiful mansion house which was built in the beginning of the 20th century to the design of the well-known Russian architects, Vesnin brothers. The works given as gifts by the Academy of Arts and some artists formed the nucleus of the collection. The replenishment of it until the October Revolution must be attributed to the enthusiasm of local artists and art lovers. The present collection of the museum dates mainly from 1917 when the State carried out the policy of planned distribution of works of art among the varios museums of the country, the central art museums also added some works to the Gallery's collection along with many of the specimens which passed into the Gallery's possession from the nationalized private collections of local merchants and the nobility. Maxim Gorky, the great proletarian writer, spared no efforts in helping to acquire pictures for the Gallery. It was he who presented the Gallery with his collection of paintings, the best of which Russian Venus by Boris Kustodyev and series of paintings Maitreya by Nickolai Roerich are exhibited now.

Check – out.

Transfer to the train station to the train for Moscow.
Departure.

Day 5. Moscow

Arrival in Moscow. Meeting at the train station (the driver will be holding the sign “Russia Travel Group”).
Transfer to the international airport. Departure

Price is starting from $ 420
 
Included:

- Accommodation in Moscow at 2* hotel
- Accommodation in Nizhny Novgorod at 2* hotel
- Meals as per itinerary
- Train tickets from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod (2nd class)
- Train tickets from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow (2nd class)
- All transfers according to the program with arrival/departure transfers
- All excursions due to the program with entrance fees, private air-conditioned car and individual licensed English speaking guide
- Visa support documents