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Optional Excursions 

Moscow

Tour Code

Excursion Name

Duration

Excursion Description
All Tours include transport, personal guide and
entrance fees

Cost  Per Person

M1

Moscow City Tour
Daily  

3 Hours

Panoramic tour - see Red Square, GUM, Lenin’s Tomb, Kremlin (from the outside), Sparrow Hills viewpoint, Bolshoi Theatre, Russia’s White House and the Lyubanka KGB building.

£40

M2

Moscow City Tour + Kremlin
Daily except Thursday

5 Hours

As tour M1 + visit inside the Kremlin. See the Grand Kremlin Palace, Tsar Cannon, Tsar Bell, Cathedral Square, the beautiful towers and gardens and the Arsenal.

£60

M3

Moscow Kremlin + 1 Cathedral
Daily except Thursday

2 Hours

As tour M2 Kremlin content + visit inside the beautiful Assumption Cathedral, Russia’s most important church for over 400 years. Here, Tsars were crowned, last was Nicholas II in 1894.

£40

M4

Moscow Kremlin + Armoury Museum
Daily  except Thursday

3 Hours

As tour M2 Kremlin content + visit the State Armoury Museum – the Royal collection of carriages, military trophies and  precious gifts presented to various Tsar’s and Tsarinas.

£60

M5

Moscow Kremlin + Diamond Fund
Daily  except Thursday

2 Hours

As tour M2 Kremlin content + visit the Diamond Fund – a showcase of natural diamonds mined in Soviet times including the 232 carat ‘Star of Yakutia’ and the ‘Seven Wonders’ collection.

£60

M6

Moscow Armoury Museum
Daily  except Thursday

1.5 Hours

As a bolt-on to an included Kremlin excursion - the Royal collection of carriages, military trophies and  precious gifts presented to various Tsar’s and Tsarinas.

£35

M7

Moscow Diamond Fund
Daily  except Thursday

1.5 Hours

As a bolt-on to an included Kremlin excursion - a showcase of natural diamonds mined in Soviet times including the 232 carat ‘Star of Yakutia’ and the ‘Seven Wonders’ collection.

£35

M8

Moscow Red Square + St.Basil’s Cathedral Daily  

2 Hours

An in depth look around Red Square. Visit St.Basil’s Cathedral & the famous GUM shop inside, as well as Lobnoye Mesto (former place of executions) and the Historical Museum.

£25

M9

Moscow Red Square + Lenin’s Mausoleum
Daily except Monday & Friday

1.5 Hours

As tour M8 + visit Lenin’s Mausoleum. See Lenin himself (in a glass box) in an eery, black granite underground chamber. Then, visit the heroes’ and presidents’ graves in the Kremlin wall.

£25

M10

Moscow History Museum
Daily except Monday

1 Hour

Museum dedicated to the history of Moscow – exhibits include archaeological items, plans and maps, photographs, rare books, porcelain and art from ancient times to present.

£25

M11

Moscow Metro Tour
Daily  

1.5 Hours

Visit several of Moscow’s beautiful Metro Stations (travelling by metro of course). Wonderful mosaics, stained glass and marble sculptures make this the world’s finest transport system.

£25

M12

Moscow Arbat Street Walk
Daily  

1 Hour

A leisurely walk down the artisan Arbat Street. A pedestrian area with many shops, restaurants, art shops, singers & poets performing, portrait artists, theatres and souvenir sellers !

£25

M13

Moscow Tretyakov Gallery
Daily except Monday

3 Hours

Possesses the finest collection of traditional Russian painting in the world. 130,000 exhibits of Russian art from the 11th to 20th centuries. Considerable collection of Russian icons.

£50

M14

Moscow Pushkin Fine Arts Museum Daily except Monday

3 Hours

More than 500,000 works of art, archeological finds, masterpieces by Botticelli, Poussin, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Matisse and Picasso are also displayed here.

£50

M15

Moscow Borodino Battle Panorama
Daily except Friday

2 Hours

Round panoramic building with Borodino mural (115 x 15 metres), weapons of Napoleon’s & Kutuzov’s armies, coins, paintings, sculptures all dedicated to Napoleon’s defeat in 1812.

£40

M16

Moscow Novodevichy Monastery / Convent - Daily except Tuesday

2 Hours

Unesco World Heritage Site – monastery founded in 1524. Magnificent churches and the burial place of many boyars, Royal family members, writers, 1812 veterans and statesmen.

£45

M17

Moscow Kolomenskoye Museum Preserve
Daily except Monday

4 Hours

An estate with many monuments of wooden architecture transported from all over Russia including Peter the Great’s small house. In the 390 acre park there are 200+ year old trees.

£60

M18

Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) Day Trip
Daily except Monday

7 Hours

The home of Russian Orthodoxy. Visit the fascinating St.Sergius Monastery which has 7 churches, 2 cathedrals, a priests’ seminary and surrounded by 11 ornate towers.

£85

M19

Golden Ring (Vladimir and Suzdal)
Daily  

15 Hours

A long day trip to the Golden Ring with your own guide and driver including sightseeing and entrance fees in both cities & included lunch. Visit the Kremlin of Suzdal.

£170

M20

Moscow Full Day to Space City
Daily *subject to permission & availability*

10 Hours

Once in a lifetime excursion. Visit Russia’s astronaut training centre with full size Mir space station, hydrolaboratory, centrifuge, navigation training complex. **Subject to availability**

£255

M21

Russian Show and Dinner
Daily  

3 Hours

An evening with a spectacular Russian show and an excellent choice of Russian fare fit for a Tsar ! Includes return transfer and 5 course meal, but no alcohol (which is inexpensive)

£90

M22

Tolstoy - Yasnaya Polyana Day Trip Daily  except Monday

9 Hours

A day of Tolstoy. Yasnaya Polyana is place where Lev Tolstoy was born in 1828 and lived for about 60 years. Here he wrote many of his books and philosophical essays.

£150

M23

Tchailkovsky Klin Day Trip
Daily except Wednesday and Thursday

6 Hours

Visit Tchaikovsky’s country house, a 90 minute drive from Moscow where he wrote The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. As he said ‘I can't imagine myself living anywhere else’.

£120

M24

Glinka Museum of Musical Culture
Daily except Monday

2 Hours

Varied collection of musical instruments from all over the world and original scores, manuscripts and classical music memorabilia based on the original collection of the Moscow Conservatory

£40

M25

Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War
Daily except Monday

3 Hours

150,000 items from WW2 in ‘Victory Park’.  The trip consists of the park, the Victory Monument, the Central Museum and the open air museum of military vehicles and fortifications.

£45

M26

Kuskovo Estate
Daily except Monday and Tuesday

4 Hours

The summer residence of Count Sheremetiev(s). Park with Palace, Grotto, marble sculptures, ponds and original pavilions. Excellent porcelain and glassware collection.

£65

M27

Tsaritsyno Museum and Nature Preserve
Daily except Monday and Tuesday

4 Hours

The Imperial summer retreat that never was: a grandiose project that consumed resources for decades, only to be aborted as it neared fruition. A ‘folly’ of Catherine the Great.

£65

M28

Memorial Museum of Space /Cosmonautics (Daily except Monday)  

3 Hours

Fascinating exhibition devoted to Soviet achievements in space. Old satellites, space modules & paraphernalia – also stuffed Belka and Strelka, the first dogs in space ! Unmissable.  

£40

St.Petersburg

Tour Code

Excursion Name

Duration

Excursion Description
All Tours include transport, personal guide and entrance fees

Cost  Per Person

S1

St.Petersburg City Tour
Daily

3 Hours

An excellent orientation tour of the city visiting Nevsky Prospekt, the field of Mars, see the Admiralty, the spectacular ‘Spilled Blood’ cathedral, and the beautiful palace lined canals.

£35

S2

St.Petersburg Peter & Paul Fortress
Daily except Wednesday

2 Hours

St.Petersburg’s first building built by Peter the Great in 1703. Not only a fortress also a political prison, burial place of all the Romanov Royal Family & wonderful views of the Neva

£40

S3

St.Petersburg St.Isaac’s Cathedral
Daily except Wednesday

1 Hour

One of the finest architectural monuments of the XIX century - capacity to accommodate 10,000 people with112 solid granite columns weighing & 400 relieves and bronze sculptures

£30

S4

St.Petersburg City Tour + St.Isaac’s
Daily except Wednesday

4 Hours

Tour S1 followed by tour S3. You will be given opportunities to buy souvenirs / have a snack during this tour.

£50

S5

City Tour + Peter & Paul Fortress
Daily except Wednesdays

5 Hours

Tour S1 followed by tour S2. You will be given opportunities to buy souvenirs / have a snack during this tour.

£45

S6

St.Isaac’s Cathedral & Peter & Paul Fortress
Daily except Wednesday

3 Hours

Tour S3 followed by tour S2. In depth tour of St.Petersburg’s main cathedral followed by a tour of the city’s first permanent building – Peter and Paul Fortress on the Neva River.

£55

S7

St.Petersburg Hermitage Museum
Daily except Tuesday

3 Hours

The world’s finest museum. Collection of 5 buildings inc. the Winter Palace, residence of the Tsars. Art collection includes Da Vinci, Picasso, Monet, Degas, Rembrandt and much more

£55

S8

St.Petersburg Hermitage + Golden Chamber
Daily except Tuesday

4 Hours

Tour S7 plus visit the world’s largest collection of prehistoric (mostly Scythian) gold relics – combs, plaques, shields etc elaborately carved nearly 3000 years ago. Breathtaking.

£110

S9

St.Petersburg Russian Museum Daily except Tuesday

2 Hours

Excellent collection of mostly Russian Art situated in Arts Square in central St.Petersburg. Many sculptures and Masters’ paintings which neatly mirror Russian history.

£45

S10

St.Petersburg Marble Palace Daily except Tuesday

1.5 Hours

Built by Catherine the Great for her lover Count Orlov – the city’s most expensive palace !Now a branch of the Russian Museum, Russian and European artworks are exhibited

£45

S11

Yusupov Palace + Rasputin Premises
Daily

2 Hours

A beautiful palace with a murky past! See elaborate ceremonial rooms, the  theatre and the basement rooms, associated with the assassination of Rasputin. Includes waxwork figures.

£70

S12

St.Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Church
Daily except Thursday

1 Hour

One of Russia’s most important churches. In the graveyard, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Lomonosov, Dostoevsky and others are buried. Truly amazing.

£35

S13

Menshikov Palace
Daily except Monday

1.5 Hours

Magnificent palace and family home of Prince Menshikov, adventurer and close friend of Peter the Great. Many interesting exhibits from their travels and opulent life in St.Petersburg

£45

S14

Kunstkammer Museum
Daily except Thursday

2 Hours

Peter the Great’s unmissable museum of curiosities and freaks. Hundreds of pickled specimens. No more live exhibits as the Hermaphrodite escaped (this is true).

£45

S15

Boat Ride on the Neva River
Daily

1.5 Hours

See the Venice of the North in all its glory from the river. Our trip passes St.Petersburg’s famous landmarks, bridges, palaces at a serene pace. Relax and enjoy the views.

£40