Moscow & St. Petersburg

Day 1

Arrival in Moscow.
Meeting with a guide at the Moscow airport. The guide will be holding the board with a sign “RTG-Russia Travel Group”. Transfer to the hotel Cosmos 4****. Accommodation for 4 nights.

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby.
10:00 am - Moscow city tour (3 hours). You will see: Moscow’s main streets, squares and places of interest: The Tverskaya street the most animated and saucy, the form headquarters of the KGB, The Bolshoy Theatre, Russian Duma also called White House, The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, The Red Square, The Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed and other major city sights. Free time for shopping or photo opportunities.
2:00 pm - Continue the city tour with a Walking tour along the Arbat Street. (2 hours)
3:00pm- Lunch in the city center
4:00 pm - Metro tour. You’ll see the legendary Moscow Metro with its mosaics and frescos.
5:30 pm Return to the hotel. Free time.
18:00 Optional dinner at the hotel (Russian national cuisine)
7:00 pm Optional evening performance at the Bolshoi theatre.

Day 3

Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby.

10:00 am Kremlin tour with visit to the Armory and 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.
3:00 pm- Lunch at the restaurant.
4:00 pm- Red square (walking excursion)
Of course, no trip to Russia would be complete without a visit to Red Square, perhaps Russia's most well known place. In the past, Red Square was typically associated with Soviet leaders watching parades of military hardware from their review stand atop Lenin's Mausoleum. Today the square is quieter, and more friendly, with the most expensive shopping in Russia along the shops in the mall.
St. Basil's Cathedral, to the right, is probably the most easily recognized piece of architecture in Russia.
7:00 pm Free time or optional evening performance in the Russian circus.

Day 4

Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00 am Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby. Departure to excursion. Excursion to the Tretyakov State Gallery - one of the world's largest museums, a treasure house of old Russian art from the 11th century till our days. The gallery bears the name of its founder, Pavel Tretyakov, who presented his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892. Now the museum holds more than 50000 works of painting, art and sculpture.
2:00 pm Return to the hotel. Free time for shopping, picture taking.

Day 5

Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00 am Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby.
Excursion to Sergiev Posad. The monastery houses the Russian Patriarch's temporary residence. In the monastery you will visit St.Trinity Cathedral where the shrine with St.Sergey's relics is stored, and the Assumption Cathedral that repeats its form after the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin. The most beautiful part of the monastery is represented by two similar constructions one of which is the Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary and the other the Refectory with the Church of St.Sergiy.
4:00 pm Return to the hotel. Free time for shopping. Picture taking.
10:00pm Transfer to the railway station for your overnight train journey to St Petersburg. Depart Moscow around midnight.

Day 6

08:00 am - Arrival in St Petersburg. Meeting with a guide at railway station.
09:00 am Breakfast at a local restaurant
10:00 am St. Petersburg city tour – all major city attractions (3 hours). You will see the magnificent St.Isaac’s cathedral, Vasilyevsky island, The University, The Winter Palace, The Palace square, Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood, The square of Arts and other famous places and monuments.
2:00 pm Transfer to the hotel – Pribaltijskaya Hotel 4****
4:00 pm Excursion to Peter& Paul Fortress includes a visit to the Cathedral, which serves a Burial place of Romanov Dynasty of Russian Tsars.
5:00 pm Transfer to the hotel. Free time.

Day 7

Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby.
10:00 am Excursion to Hermitage Museum - one of the major museums in the world. Its collection consists of nearly three million art treasures. Exhibits are displayed in the world famous Winter palace as well as the Small, Old and New Hermitages.
2:30 pm Return to hotel Free time for shopping, picture taking.
7:00 pm Optional performance at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Day 8 

Breakfast at the hotel. Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby.
10:00 am Excursion to Pushkin - Catherine’s Palace.
The Palace-and-Park Ensemble - a former residence of the Russian emperors - is a spectacular monument of architecture and art of gardening of XVIII-XIX centuries. Its three parks cover 600 ha housing over a hundred of buildings from magnificent palace and monuments to intimate pavilions and sculpture.
4:00 pm Return to your hotel.
Free time for shopping or photo opportunities.
7:00 pm Optional evening folk show at Nikolaevsky palace.

Day 9

Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00 am Meeting with a guide at the hotel lobby. Departure to excursion. Transfer to Peterhof palace. The world-famous palace, fountain and park ensemble of Peterhof is an outstanding landmark of Russian artistic culture of the 18-19th centuries.
Return to St.Petersburg.
3:00 pm Free time for shopping, picture taking. Return to the hotel.

Day 10

Breakfast at the hotel.
Check out. Transfer to the airport.
Departure.
Land only price Includes:
- Accommodation in Moscow for 4 nights at Ukraina Hotel,
- Accommodation in St Petersburg for 4 nights at Pribaltijskaya Hotel,
- Daily buffet breakfast,
- All transfers according to the itinerary by First Class Air-conditioned coach with English speaking assistant,
- All sightseeing excursions according to the itinerary by First class Air-conditioned coach with exclusive English speaking guides,
- First class overnight train tickets from Moscow – St Petersburg,
- All entrance fees to places of interest included in the program,
- Russian Visa Support documents.