Tula classics

Dates 2022:

September: 24-25

October: 15-16, 29-30;

2 days and 1 night

1 day. 

Arrival around 11.00, things can be taken to the hotel in the luggage room, check-in after 14.00. We can order a taxi.

• 10.50.00- Meeting of the group with the guide at the Lenin monument on Lenin Square (September)
• ( 11.50 a.m.- August)
• Excursion to the Museum of International gingerbread.The museum presents the history of a unique ancient delicacy that came to us from the depths of time, experienced ups and downs, losses and rebirth. They will tell you about ancient traditions and rituals. They will reveal the secret of making gingerbread.

A gingerbread tasting with tea and sweets is waiting for you + a gingerbread making master class. They will pack everything beautifully for you and take it with you.

• Walking tour of the city center.Tula is an ancient Russian city that served the defense of the Moscow state for centuries, and then became the country's largest arms manufacturer. We invite guests to take a walk through the quarters of the Old Town – you can see Tula almost exactly as Ushinsky, Tolstoy, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Uspensky saw it

You will take a walk along the Kremlin Garden and the embankment, opened in September 2018, get acquainted with one of the most beautiful streets in Tula – Metallistov St., which recently became pedestrian, take a photo at the Tula Gingerbread monument.You will learn interesting facts about the most famous Tulyaks, about the past and about how our city lives now.Visit the Kremlin.

• Lunch time (additional charge on your own)
• Samovar Museum

A modern large museum. You will learn the history of samovar making in Tula and get acquainted with outstanding craftsmen. You will be amazed by the collection of samovars: from miniature to huge

• The tour ends after 17.30
• Hotel accommodation

Additional excursions:

• Excursion to the "Museum of Arms" (optional, ticket 450 rubles adult, student free of charge)

An amazing helmet-shaped building appeared on the embankments of the Upa River in 2012.

There is an open–air exhibition of large military equipment on the site in front of the museum.The museum features thousands of exhibits, a huge number of weapons – cold and firearms, the latest and antique. Russian Russian museum is the only museum in Russia where you can trace the evolution of Russian small arms, the development of engineering and technical thought, the progress of Russian industry, where you can get acquainted with the unsurpassed skill of Tula gunsmiths, whose art is akin to the art of Tula Lefty.Interactive zones

• The Machine Tool Museum is a huge multimedia space (ticket 350 rubles for adults, 250 rubles for schoolchildren)

Interactive tour "Tula — workshop of Russia"It is dedicated to the identity of the city as the industrial heart of Russia. The museum's guests will learn about how Tula became an industrial center; how gingerbread, weapons, samovar and industry are connected; what the Tula cultural DNA is and why Tula is the workshop of Russia.

The narrators of the tour are Masha, a modern resident of Tula, and her assistant, the Bullfinch neural network. They will tell the participants about the great inventions of Tula craftsmen, the ideas of young innovators and their projects.

• Grandfather Philemon Harmony Museum 350 rubles

A two-minute walk from the Tula Kremlin is an old two-story building where the harmonies live. Their overflows are carried far beyond the walls, so much so that they can be heard all over the street. If you visit them, they will surely reward you by giving you a piece of their soul.Not just an excursion, but a real theater of action, where you and the accordion will be the main characters, will be presented to your attention! All lovers of singing, playing, dancing and just listening to the harmonica are definitely here! Accordion is a joy, I am glad to welcome a guest!

Day 2

• Breakfast at the hotel
10.00 a.m.- Meeting of the group with the guide Boarding the transport with things.
• 11.00-12.00- Excursion to the Kozlova Zaseka Museum and Railway station complex.A place where everything looks exactly as it looked at the moment when Leo Tolstoy's body was brought to this station. Even the clock stopped. In this place, you can not only take beautiful photos, but also learn about railway transport in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
• 12.00-13.00-Free time for a snack and buying souvenirs
• 13.00-15.30-Guided tour of the museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana"

The tour is intended for those who come to Yasnaya Polyana for the first time or want to refresh their impressions from a long-time visit to the museum. The group examines the central part of the Yasnaya Polyana estate, the House of Leo Tolstoy, where most of the writer's life was spent, and the exhibition in the Kuzminsky Wing, dedicated to the beginning of Tolstoy's creative activity.

The group will learn about sports games in the Tolstoy family, the first school in the Kuzminsky Wing, and the economic activities of Leo Tolstoy. Being on the border of several Yasnaya Polyana forests, tourists will learn about their history, reflection in Tolstoy's work, and hear about why one of them became the writer's burial place.

In the final, those who wish can visit the grave of Leo Tolstoy in the Yasnaya Polyana forest of the Old Order on their own.

Return to Tula at the railway station around 16.00.

• Departure to Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc. after 16.00

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