BOAT STOPS

We travel along the Volga Baltic waterways through what are known as the Golden Ring cities and towns then through the two largest lakes in Europe called Onega and Ladoga. We embark in Moscow and end up in St Petersburg.

Day 1) Moscow transfer to the ship . EMBAR.CATION on MS Tolstoy
Day 2) City tour, Red Square and Metro. Visit the Tretiakaov Gallery then Optional Moscow by night
Day 3) Kremlin and Armoury Museum. Optional Pushkin Museum or Novodedvichy Monastery . Leave Moscow and sail up river to UGLICH.
Day 4) UGLICH . This is an ancient town on the Volga 136 miles North of Moscow. We take a city tour.
Day 5) KOSTROMA . another ancient city with the famous wooden architecture museum.
Day 6) YAROSLAVL 155 miles M of Moscow. An old walled city
Day 7) GORITSKY a typical peaceful farming village Medieval.
Famous monasteries associated with Ivan the terrible Built around 1391. These monasteries are known as one of the seven wonders of Russia s.We are now on the tributary of the Volga called the river Skeksna. A lot of history is associated here with Ivan the terrible.
Day 8) KIZHI At the northern end of Lake Onega Near St petersburg. A town known for it preservation of Russia’s wooden architecture . 14 Century coplete wooden churches were built on the island of Kizhi
Day 9) MANDROGUI A reconstructed Russian village built to illustrate the life –style and traditions of Russia’s past. Artists and craft people from all over Russia live here producing the famous Matryoshka dolls and ceramics . (The Vodka museum is a must)!!!!
Day 10) St PETERSBURG City tour, an evening ballet performance at the Hermitage Theatre.
Day 11) St PETERSBURG tour of the Hermitage . Evening folklore dancing and show
Day 12) ST PETERSBURG An excursion to the Palace of Peter the Great (Peterhof) on the gulf of Finland about 20miles north of St Petersburg.
Day 13) DISEMBARK