Day Schedule

➤Breakfast

➤Guided tour to the State Tretyakov Gallery, the most famous museum of Russian art in the world

➤Panoramic driving city tour: the Novodevichy Convent with the guided tour inside, Sparrow Hills, Stalin's skyscrapers tour

➤Guided tour to Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve

➤Transfer to the train station to board the overnight train to Kazan

The State Tretyakov Gallery

It is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to the Russian nation. The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumental Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich.

Kolomenskoye Estate

A short ride from the city centre will take you to Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve, where you can get an idea of what Medieval Moscow looked like. Here you’ll find the oldest garden in Moscow and a favourite estate of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, father of Peter the Great.

The Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoe is considered a masterpiece of early Russian architecture and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its unique design, with its tent-like roof, symbolizes the connection between earthly and heavenly realms. The structure was built to commemorate the birth of Tsar Ivan IV, and its distinctive style influenced later religious and civic buildings in Russia. 

Kolomenskoe also features beautiful parkland, historic buildings, and fascinating exhibits that showcase Moscow's rich history, making it a perfect escape for anyone interested in Russian heritage and culture.

Stalin's skyscrapers

The Seven Sisters are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. They were built from 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles. At the time of construction, they were the tallest buildings in Europe, and the Main building of Moscow State University remained the tallest building in Europe until 1997. There were two more skyscrapers in the same style planned that were never built: the Zaryadye Administrative Building and the Palace of the Soviets.