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    Manors of great writers and composers, art museums and other architectural monuments

    Manors of great writers and composers, art museums and other architectural monuments
    Starts from

    Saint Petersburg

    Transportation

    By Car

    Guidance

    Self-Guided

    Activities

    51

    Duration

    6 days

    Length

    919 mi

    Guide details

    Starts from

    Saint Petersburg

    Transportation

    By Car

    Guidance

    Self-Guided

    Duration

    6 days

    Length

    919 mi

    • History and Culture
    • Arts and Creativity
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    Anastasia Baklanova

    Anastasia Baklanova

    Traveller

    • Museum-Estate of P.E. Scherbov.
    • Kirha parish of Gubanitsa.
    • N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum Reserve.
    • Manor Zapolie.
    • Novgorod Center for Contemporary Art.
    • St. John the Theological Cheremenets Monastery.
    • Interactive museum-reconstruction of a medieval manor of the XII century.
    • House-Museum of F.M. Dostoevsky in Staraya Russa.
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    The Leningrad region is rich in architectural monuments. Some are kept in excellent condition and are accessible for tourists. Most of them we know - Gatchina Palace, Peter and Paul Fortress, Priory Palace, Oreshek Fortress.
    I suggest you go for a walk through atypical monuments of architecture and see the Church of the Holy Trinity, Zapolye estate, Tikhvin Monastery of the Assumption, the Old Artist Fortress. We will also visit some places imbued with the atmosphere of creativity, in particular, the House Museum of F.M.Dostoevsky and the Museum-Estate of N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov. And just a leisurely stroll through the art museums of Veliky Novgorod.
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    • History and Culture
    • Arts and Creativity
    The Leningrad region is rich in architectural monuments. Some are kept in excellent condition and are accessible for tourists. Most of them we know - Gatchina Palace, Peter and Paul Fortress, Priory Palace, Oreshek Fortress.
    I suggest you go for a walk through atypical monuments of architecture and see the Church of the Holy Trinity, Zapolye estate, Tikhvin Monastery of the Assumption, the Old Artist Fortress. We will also visit some places imbued with the atmosphere of creativity, in particular, the House Museum of F.M.Dostoevsky and the Museum-Estate of N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov. And just a leisurely stroll through the art museums of Veliky Novgorod.
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    Anastasia Baklanova

    Anastasia Baklanova

    Traveller

    • Museum-Estate of P.E. Scherbov.
    • Kirha parish of Gubanitsa.
    • N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum Reserve.
    • Manor Zapolie.
    • Novgorod Center for Contemporary Art.
    • St. John the Theological Cheremenets Monastery.
    • Interactive museum-reconstruction of a medieval manor of the XII century.
    • House-Museum of F.M. Dostoevsky in Staraya Russa.
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    Travel itinerary

    Saint Petersburg - Gatchina - Veliky Novgorod
    9 Activities

    Day 1

    222 mi

    Saint Petersburg - Gatchina - Veliky Novgorod

    Visit the estate of the famous cartoonist PE Shcherbov. We will visit the village of Gubanitsy and see the stone kirch in pseudogothic style. The church on the Fifth Mountain, surrounded by legends and mystical stories.
    N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum Reserve
    9 Activities

    Day 2

    211 mi

    N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum Reserve

    I suggest that you take your time exploring Veliky Novgorod, but go to the estate where Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov finished his famous opera The Golden Cockerel, where he spent the last moments of his life. On the way to the estate we will see the St. John the Theologian Cheremenets Monastery and the Zapolye estate.
    Veliky Novgorod
    10 Activities

    Day 3

    22 mi0.4 mi

    Veliky Novgorod

    It's going to be a very educational day. We will visit a unique monument of the XV century, see the frescoes of a famous icon painter - Theophanes the Greek and visit the most interesting museum of artistic culture of the Novgorod land. We'll finish the day in a very atmospheric institution.
    Veliky Novgorod - Staraya Russa
    9 Activities

    Day 4

    72 mi

    Veliky Novgorod - Staraya Russa

    Today we leave Veliky Novgorod and go to the city of Staraya Russa, our way will go along the most picturesque lake Ilmen. We will even make one stop on the way near Mikhailo-Klopsky Trinity Monastery. Even today we will visit an interactive museum-reconstruction of a medieval manor and the House-Museum of F.M.Dostoevsky.
    Old Russa - Tikhvin
    7 Activities

    Day 5

    241 mi0.5 mi

    Old Russa - Tikhvin

    Today the program includes: the main cathedral of Old Russia, the museum "Old Believers' Yard", an ethnographic interactive open-air park-museum and the Tikhvin Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, founded in the XVI century.
    Tikhvin - Old Ladoga - Vsevolzhsk - Saint Petersburg
    7 Activities

    Day 6

    150 mi0.2 mi

    Tikhvin - Old Ladoga - Vsevolzhsk - Saint Petersburg

    The final day of our trip. We will visit the house where the composer Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov grew up. We will visit Old Ladoga and visit the manor of the late XIX century, built with the funds of the President of the Academy of Arts, Nikolai Olenin.
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