Warm Excursion "The history and secrets of the Posad"
From 5 000₽ per group
Description
Type: Single-day activity
Duration: 2 hours
* On our warm excursion:
• Let's walk around the Kremlin – under the walls of a unique monument of fortress architecture – and talk about the history of the Moscow Posad.
Let's get acquainted with the life of the ancient Chinese city and finally find out what relation it has to the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire.
• Learn the history of the first Moscow monastery, founded by the son of St. Alexander Nevsky, and visit its ancient vaults.
• Let's trace the history of GUM from the XIX century to the present day and reveal the secret of the building, which once combined a house for the poor and the most beautiful monument of its era.
• Let's go to Gostiny Dvor and find out where the merchants of the time of Elena Glinskaya stood, what treasure was recently found there and what the "remnants of sweetness" are.
• We will visit the boyar's house, which was given to the British by Ivan the Terrible for an interesting reason, and see how the British character got along in cold Muscovy. And to hear the end of the story, let's change the boyar mansions and find out which tsar and why he drove the British ambassadors from Russia.
• Find out where the first Romanovs came from, how future tsars were raised and what they taught. And we will finish our informative tour with a tea party in a cozy cell of the monastery, which once belonged to the royal house.
Let's overcome the cold together – with benefits for the mind and soul.
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