The Great Russian Loop along History and Ancient Cities , 4 days

Type: special offers, corporate offers, excursion, historical, events, culture heritage, recommended, discovery

Route: Seliger lake, Poland and World II War, Tojok, Dmitrov, Tver, Moscow

Dates: upon request, all year round

Mode: vehicle, on foot, vehicle

Group: 2-20

The automobile tour for 1 - 40 tourists

Led by Vasiliy Novakovskiy

             The tour is along the ancient roads from Moscow to Dmitrov, then to Tver. From Tver a ring visiting Staritsa and Torjoke. Then to Volokolamsk and back to Moscow.

             The road to Dmitrov is full of great objects of history and culture. It is the bank of the handmade 120 km long channel Volga - Moscow built by the prisoners of the Bolshevik concentration camp in 1932 - 1937. Half a million victims of the camp lie in the dykes and under the road.

      In Fedoskino village for more than two hundred years lacquered miniature is produced. This art is lost in Europe. Fedoskino artists make fantastic caskets and sell in their studios.

      The old town of Dmitrov was founded in 1154. The ancient ground fortress and cathedral (XVII century) with precious icons are  safe. Good museum. Many historic monuments are in the town and in the area. Old monastery (XII century). On the hills stands 40 meters high monument to the heroes of the war 1941. Many old churches with interesting history and art.

      The road from Dmitrov to Tver is beautiful. Many old wooden houses decorated with wood carvings, provincial churches.

            Exclusive art is the memorial to soldier Vasilkovsky who in 1941 closed German shooting machine gun with his breast.

         Fantastic church(XV century) is in Gorodniya.

       Tver is one of the oldest Russian towns with  great history. Tver had many possibilities to become the capital of Russia. Old town has nice architecture. Art and history museums.

       The town of Staritsa in the old times was close to the border with western countries. On the bank of Volga it is possible to visit the 900 years old monastery. Monk Jove became the first Russian Patriarch(XVI century).

         In Bernovo we have a great museum of the famous Russian poet Pyshkin. In the villages along the road churches of XIV - XVIII centuries.

          Torjoke (XIII century) always was the place of frontier wars and trade. Here the north of Russia settled the deeds with Volga and Moscow people. A lot of old buildings, unique wooden church on the original place(XVII century), museum of wooden buildings of the XVIII - XIX centuries. "Paradise" - the great palace (XVIII century) of Russian nobles.

        On the road from Torjoke to Tver in Mednoye Poles built a memorial to polish captives of 1939, when Soviet Union invaded in Poland. That was the beginning of the Second World War. More then 6000 poles were killed in Tver  in spring 1940 by Bolsheviks. Mednoye is the polish military cemetery. Close to poles lie more than 50,000 Russian victims of the totalitarian system.

      Mikulino was the frontier fortress(XIV century) on the road from Tver to Volokolamsk. In the middle of the big ground fortress stands 40 meters hight church(XIV century).

      Yaropolets presents aristocratic palaces of the XVIII century and  the mausoleum of the Ukrainian patriot Peter Doroshenko(XVII century). This place is the symbol of Ukrainian independence of Russia.

        Volokolamsk is older than Moscow. It stands on the northern branch of the Great Silk Rout - water way from Scandinavia to  Caspian sea. Ground fortress of those times is in the center of the town. It protected very important portage of that rout.

       In XVII century New Jerusalem was built 50 km from Moscow. Great stone fortress with exclusive church and interesting museum are the face of this place. Architecture looks like real Jerusalem