Breakfast at hotel.

Transfer to visit the Red Square

Red Square - a shanty town of wooden huts clustered beneath the Kremlin walls that housed a collection of peddlers, criminals and drunks whose status left them outside the official boundaries of the medieval city.

The square's name has nothing to do with communism or with the color of many of its buildings. In fact it derives from the word 'krasnyi', which once meant 'beautiful', and has only come to mean 'red' in contemporary Russian.

Enter from Kremlin to Red Square

Visit the Red Square Mausoleum (outside) and the St. Basil's Cathedral (outside)

Lunch at local restaurant (Russian)

Visit the State of Tretyakov Gallery (entrance)

The State Tretyakov Gallery is the National treasury of Russian fine art and consider as one of the greatest museums in the world. It is located in one of the oldest directs of Moscow  Zamoskvorechye, not far from the Kremlin.  The Gallery's collection contains more than 150,000 works of painting,

Having a walk at Arbat - an approximately one-kilometer long pedestrain street in the historical centre of Moscow. The Arbat has existed at least since the 15th century, thus laying claim to being one of the oldest

surviving streets of the Russian capital.

Dinner at Catherin Hall 

Transfer back to the hotel, free and overnight.

Breakfast at hotel.

Pick up at hotel and transfer to visit the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, which is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatoslav Richter's December nights has been held in the Pushkin museum since 1981.

Then visit the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin. With an overall height of 103 metres, it is the tallest Orthodox Christian church in the world. Also visit the Bolshoi Theatre where performs the Russia’s world class Ballet and Opera. 

Then visit the underground in Moscow before returning back to hotel, lunch and dinner on guest own account, free and overnight.

Buffet breakfast at the hotel - Check out. 

Transfer to visit Vorobyevy Gory ( Sparrow Hills )

Stand and survey over 1000 years of history for a viewing platform overlooking the magnificent panorama of the city.. It might be hard to imagine the footprints of Napoleon when you are surrounded by kiosks and fast food vendors, not to mention the souvenir touts.  Also visit the MGU which is the University of Moscow .  

Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which opened in 1883, a memory of Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812, this building was the biggest cathedral in Russia. But communists didn't like it and planned to build a Palace of the Soviets on it's place. So the Cathedral was destroyed.  The Cathedral just rebuilt and reopened for tourist.

Lunch restaurant Vysotskiy (Western)

Bunker 42 (Joined entrance) A unique exhibition of Cold War history located about 65 meters underground, Bunker-42 is a military history museum and an entertaining complex......

Dinner at local restaurant (Chinese)

Stroll around one of the supermarket in Moscow

Transfer back to Leningradsky train station.

Depart the overnight train Grand Express Train to St Petersburg - sleeping berth provided

(2 sleeping berths in one cabin) - one bathroom for 2 cabins sharing.

Breakfast served on the train with hot drink. 

Arrived and Pick up at train station. 

Transfer to visit the Pete Peterhof Palace & Garden was built outside of the new capital of St Petersburg as the royal summer residence for Russian Tsar Peter the Great, and it is an excellent example of the architectural artistry of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  Peterhof comprises a palace, fountain and park and was founded in the early eighteenth century; The entire complex is a beautiful place to spend a sunny day, enjoying the palace as Peter the Great envisioned himself spending summers. Started to visit the Summer Palace in Peterhof

Visit the Summer Palace & the Park

Lunch at local restaurant ( western )

Enjoy a river Cruise

Then transfer back to hotel and stay overnight in St Petersburg

Buffet breakfast at the hotel

Transfer to Artillery Museum

Visit the Artillery museum (entrance), history of the Russian artillery and war craft

Lunch provided at restaurant (Chinese)

Transfer to the Hermitage and visit to the Stage Hermitage Museum which is a museum of art and culture. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine The Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. This museum consist of six buildings complex, named the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage and New Hermitage are partially opened to the public. The other two are Hermitage Theatres and the Reserve House.  

Dinner provided at restaurant (western)

Back to hotel, free and overnight.

Early breakfast at hotel.

Pick up at hotel and transfer to Pushkin

Visit the Carriage Museum

Visit the Catherin Palace (entrance) summer residence of Catherine the Great, well known for its  Amber room, which was stolen during WW2 and then reconstructed in the recent times.  Fine Barocco style.

Lunch restaurant Uno Momento (Russian) 

City tour with visit to Our Savior of Spilled Blood Church

Then  visit one of the local supermarket before transfer back to the hotel, dinner on guest own arrangement,  free and overnight.  

Breakfast at hotel.

Transfer to St. Isaac's Cathedral

St. Isaac's Cathedral (entrance) a unique building, which is comparable in its shape and complicity to the St. Paul Cathedral in London. It took 40 years to build it, and lot of new inventions where made to complete the project. The architect of this Cathedral was granted a favor to be buried in it, though he was a foreigner and visit the monument to Nickolas the First.  

Lunch at restaurant (Western)

Yusupov Palace, located on a quiet stretch of the Moika River stands a long yellow building, which was once the residence of the wealthy and respected Yusupov family and which saw one of the most dramatic episodes in Russia's history - the murder of Grigory Rasputin, the guide will explain more about the story of this museum to you on the spot. Transfer back to hotel.

Dinner on guest own arrangement, free and overnight.              

Note:  You may like to enjoy a show at The Mikhailovsky Theatre is one of Russia's oldest opera and ballet houses. It was founded in 1833 and is situated in a historical building on 1, Arts Square in Saint Petersburg. It is named after Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia.                

Only few minutes’ walk from your hotel, all SHOWS needed to pre-book.                       

Breakfast at the hotel.  Check out.

Transfer to airport for your flight to Moscow 

Arrive Moscow and take flight back home

Overnight on board

Flight arrival from your Moscow flight.