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Moscow is a very exciting destination as the cultural barriers between the west and the east continue to fall. Moscow has some excellent art collections and its historic buildings have survived the turbulent times of the last century. The city has an ancient foundation with many modern influences and is a must for any art student to visit. Visit the cathedrals and the Kremlin to see examples of traditional architecture, even the metro stations are in themselves works of art.
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- 4 nights bed and breakfast accommodation
- Return flights including tax
- Free staff place ratio 1:10
- Detailed information pack
- Comprehensive travel and medical insurance
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Sample Itinerary
Example AccommodationState Tretyakov Gallery
The Tretyakov Gallery collection is the property of the Russian government. It is also a great source of national pride being one of the greatest museums in the world. The gallery’s collection consists entirely of Russian art and contains more than 130,000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics from the 12th Century through to the 20th Century.The bulk of the art belonged to a patron of Russian...
Kremlin
The heart of Moscow and of Russia itself, the Kremlin (literally meaning ‘fortified town') is a walled fortress dating back to the city's founding in 1147 (although the oldest walls and churches date from the 15th and 16th centuries). From 1276 to 1712, it was the seat of government for the grand princes and tsars, from 1918 the Communist government; it is inextricably linked to most of Russia's m...
St. Basil's Cathedral
The famous St. Basil's Cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1555 and 1561. Legend has it that on completion of the church the Tsar ordered the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, to be blinded to prevent him from ever creating anything to rival its beauty again. The cathedral was built to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's successful military campaign against the Tartar Mongols ...
Museum of Private Collections
In addition to the extensive and priceless collections of the Pushkin Museum, art lovers can also visit the adjacent Museum of Private Collections. Started on the initiative of the art collector Ilya Zilberstein and Director Irina A.Antonova in a specially reconstructed and equipped building of the XVIII-XIX centuries next to the main building this rather eclectic museum displays private collectio...
Pushkin Museum of Fine Art
Opened in 1912 the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum possesses a collection of European art second (in Russia) only to St. Petersburg''s Hermitage. Much of the strength of the collection is in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, a result of the fact that such works gained an appreciative audience in Russia long before they captured the imagination of collectors further west. Manet''s Dejeuner su...
Bolshoi Theatre
The imposing home of the internationally-famed Bolshoi ballet was constructed in 1824 by Osip Bove, though the company itself was begun in 1773 as a dancing school for the Moscow Orphanage. For much of its history the Bolshoi was overshadowed by the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, but with Moscow''s restoration as the capital in 1918 it gained pre-eminence. For most of the last three decades ...
Moscow Metro
Moscow Metro is one of the world's most heavily used metro systems. It was constructed in the early 1930's and is famous for its palatial marble stations with mosaics, chandeliers, precious materials and beautiful examples of socialist realist art. Particularly notable stations are: Komsomolskaya (1952), Kievskaya (1954), Novoslobodskaya (1950) and Ploshchad Revolutsii(1939). Mayakovskaya Metro st...
State Museum of Oriental Art
The museum houses a unique collection including rare Buddhist sculpture, jewellery and textiles, wood and bone carvings and antique weaponry. Although the collection is small and, in comparison with equivalents in London and Paris, rather amateurish it covers the cultures of the whole of Asia, displaying paintings, sculpture and handicrafts from all across the continent, including the Middle and F...
Red Square
Red Square (Krasnaya Ploschad) separates the Kremlin from the merchant quarter of Kitay-Gorod. It is the most famous square in the country (and arguably the world) and all the major streets in the city gravitate towards it. Established in 1493 after the wooden buildings on the territory were cleared by Ivan III, the name itself bears no relation to communism nor to the prevalence of red in the squ...
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Board your flight from the UK to Moscow | Transfer to your accommodation | Evening meal |
| Day 2 | Take a half day guided tour of the main sight | Spend some time exploring the Red Square and Lenin's Mausoleum | Evening meal |
| Day 3 | Take a tour of the Kremlin | Free time for some shopping in the GUM Department store | Evening meal |
| Day 4 | Morning Visit the Tretyakov Gallery with over 100'000 pieces of Art | Afternoon Visit the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art | Evening meal |
| Day 5 | Morning free for shopping (flight time permitting) | Transfer to the airport and board your flight home | |
Tourist Hotel
The Tourist Hotel complex has six five storey blocks, each being an independent hotel with common infrastructure and covering two to four star accommodation. There are sport stadium "Iskra" at the site attached to the hotel, 3 football fields, volley-ball and basket-ball pitches, covered tennis-courts, sport simulators and sauna. Many rooms of the hotel were recently renovated to meet the business standard in spite of the fact that the official level of the hotel is still two stars. The blocks offer 450 comfortable rooms of different types and categories. All rooms are equipped with a shower or a full bath and WC, direct dial telephone, TV set, refrigerator or mini-bar. There are many bars, snack bars, coffee-shops and restaurants at the Tourist Hotel working 24 hours a day and offering a great choice of Russian and European cuisine.
Moscow Home Hostel
All dorms at the hostel are located on the first floor with comfortable rooms in a renovated building. There are doubles, twins, superdoubles and of course perfectly designed dormitory rooms.
We have a large common room with a terrace, TV, Internet and comfortable kitchen, where you can serve yourself tea or coffee any time.
Young friendly multi-lingual speaking staff and the information desk will help you to discover Moscow.
We have a large common room with a terrace, TV, Internet and comfortable kitchen, where you can serve yourself tea or coffee any time.
Young friendly multi-lingual speaking staff and the information desk will help you to discover Moscow.
