Moscow (5 days 4 nights) €
The City of Moscow is huge. Approximately 11 million people live there. It is not the type of city that can be seen in a weekend  getaway. Since it's so large, giving it only a weekend of your time would not be doing it justice. The city is rich in history, architecture, culture, museums, the arts, and cuisine. It has a much more European flavor than other parts of Russia.
A must for any tourist is Red Square and the Kremlin. You could spend a week in the Kremlin alone with all of it's churches, the armory, and architecture, and history. Anyone who visits Moscow will surely not be disappointed.
St. Petersburg is known as the cultural treasure house of Russia: it has more than 140 museums and around 100 theatres. It is second biggest city of Russia with the population of 4,7 Million. Historically and architecturally unique “Venice of the North” provides a great number of sights and the trendiest shops, restaurants and nightclubs to enjoy! Definitely one of the world's most interesting and beautiful cities!
Price includes: Train ticket Helsinki - Moscow - Helsinki, sightseeing tour, accommodation in hotels (2 nights in Moscow) with breakfast, services of your English-Russian-Finnish speaking tourguide, passport registration fees.
Additional program at extra cost:
· Kremlin grounds and Cathedrals,
· Armoury palace,
· Novodevichy Convent,
· one day excursion to Troitse-Sergiev Laura,
· Moscow State Circus,
· Bolshoi theatre,
· State Hermitage museum,
· SS Peter and Paul fortress,
· Peterhof or Catherine's palace,
· St Isaac's cathedral.
Moscow - St. Petersburg 7 days
Price includes: Train ticket Helsinki - Moscow - St-Petersburg, bus trip St-Petersburg-Helsinki, sightseeing tours of both cities, accommodation in hotels (2 nights in Moscow, 2 nights in St. Petersburg) with breakfast, services of your English-Russian-Finnish speaking tourguide, passport registration fees, info package of Russia.
 The minimum size of the group is 25 persons.
1st. day
Meeting at Helsinki (or Riihimäki)
Night train departure. Sleeping compartments for four persons.
Passport control and money exchange in the train.
Border formalities
Restaurant coach opened (Russian time! It is +1 hour to Finnish time.)
Restaurant closed
2nd. day
Arrival in Moscow.
Sightseeing tour of the city by bus: Red Square, Lenin Mausoleum, Manezhnaya Square, Tverskaya Str....
Check-in at the hotel. Free time
Meeting at the hotel lobby for the guided tour in Tretyakov Art Gallery
Guided tour of Tretyakov Art Gallery, 10 €
Dinner next to the gallery (not included to the price)
Guided tour of Moscow subway, 5 € .
Meeting at the metro station "Novokuznetskaja" on the green line
Back to the hotel. Get together.
3d.day
Breakfast (until 10:00)
Meeting at the hotel lobby for the tour of Kremlin
Guided tour of Kremlin 15 €
Lunch next to the Kremlin (not included in the price)
Meeting at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Next to the eternal flame)
Tour of the historical area of Kolomenskoye or the Novodevichy monastery
Free time at the district of the State Circus
Meeting at the main etrance of the Circus
Moscow State Circus or Circus "Nikulin" 12 €
Get-together party at the hotel.
Night clubs
4th. day
 Breakfast
Group # 1: Checkout at the hotel. Departure for the guided tour of Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra (70 km from Moscow)
All the luggages should be taken with. The luggage is left for storage to the railway station after arriving back to Moscow
Group # 2: Checkout. Bus transfer to the Railway station, where luggage left for storage.
Free time
Meeting near the Bolshoj Theatre (by the fountain, metro station "Teatralnaya" at the green line)
Bolshoj Theatre 15-25 € ballet/opera (Tickets must be booked beforehand in Tuesday)
Meeting at the Leningrad Railway station (metro station "Komsomolskaya", in the red line)
Night train departure to St Petersburg 
5th. day
Arrival in St-Petersburg. Possibility for a short breakfast.
A guided sightseeing tour of Saint Petersburg by bus. ( 3 hours)
Check in at the hotel
A guided tour of State Hermitage Museum 7 €
Free time
Get-together. Night clubs
6th. day
 Breakfast
Departure from the hotel for a guided tour of Catherine's palace or Peterhof 25 €
St-Isaac's Cathedral 7 €
Free time
Get-together. Night clubbing
7th.day
Breakfast
Checkout. Bus departure from the hotel. Shopping in a hypermarket "Lenta" or "O'Kay".
A stop in Vyborg
Arrival in Helsinki
Information for participants from other cities:
* Departure from Helsinki Railway station "Tolstoi" 18:27
Sightseeing
Red Square
The Red Square is a large square next to the Kremlin, there's Lenin's mausoleum. In middle ages this square used to be the main place in Russia, that has witnessed many events: from coronations of Russia's Tsars, to enemies attacks. Also it was the main trading place in Moscow, and the place where the Tsars were addressing the people. In the Soviet times, it was the place where the Soviet government would address the people, and where Soviet military was showing its strength and power at the Victory Day's parades. Now it is on of the main attractions in Moscow.
However, the name “Red square” hasn’t anything to do with communism or revolution. “Krasny” is an old Slavonic adjective for “beautiful”, and that is what the Red Square really is, especially at night with its glowing red stars and romantic illuminated St-Basil’s cathedral
Lenin Mausoleum,
The Mausoleum was built in 1930 to put Lenin's dead body inside (you know, like they did in Egypt). The body lies in there, but few people, tourists mostly, visit it and there are talks that Lenin will be buried soon. Also, there's a story that under the mausoleum there's a hidden underground railway, that'll evacuate the body of Bolsheviks' leader in case there's nuclear war or something.
Manezhnaya Square
The square devoted to the 5th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 was constructed given the name “Manezhnaya Squar e” after the name “Manege”.
Tverskaya Street
Name of Tverskaya Street goes from its connection of Moscow with the ancient Russian town of Tver, 160 miles northeast of Moscow. Tverskaya Street was an initial part of the direct route, via Tver, to the new capital St. Petersburg. By the 16th century, Tverskaya was a well-known trade route. Even after Peter the Great transferred the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the new tsars entered Moscow along Tverskaya Street. Before the Revolution, the street was well known for its fashionable stores, luxurious hotels, and aristocratic mansions. Originally a tiny, uneven, winding road, Tverskaya's width was tripled in the mid-1930s when some houses were torn down and others were moved back. The construction of the many large buildings that you see today, with shops on the ground floor, began soon afterwards. Today this street, still a bit ragged, again boasts some of the most expensive real estate and the most exclusive stores in the capital such as Yeliseyevsky Gastronom.
 Tretyakov Art GalleryOpened in 1892 by famous and valued art collector Pavel Tretyakov, Tretyakov Art Gallery is a repository of some of the world’s greatest masterpieces of Russian Art from 11th to 20th century. Gallery represents sacred icons, stunning paintings of Russian Realism, Symbolism, Impressionism and Art Nouveau, most well known of which are The Volga Boatmen by Ilya Repin, The Last day of Pompeii by Bryullov, Ivan the Terrible after killing his son, as well as the masterpieces of Chagall, Kandisky and Malevich
Kremlin
Only after visiting Kremlin you can say that you’ve been to Moscow. The Kremlin is a former palace of kings. Originally the walls around the Kremlin (fortress) were first elevated in the 10th century and were made of wood. In the 13th century brick walls were added. The modern Kremlin, as it is now, was built in the 16th century and it was the second powerful castle in Europe after the one in Milan. Also, in the 16th century most of the decoration works were made, and the four famous cathedrals inside the Kremlin were built in this period. Nowadays it is where the president of Russia works. There are many nice cathedrals, some museums, and historical monuments inside.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
An eternal flame burns before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, who died for his country during World War II. It was unveiled on May 8th, 1967, on the eve of Victory Day.
It is a tradition for newlyweds on their wedding day to lay flowers on the tombstone, on which is inscribed: “Your name is unknown, your feat immortal. To the fallen 1941 – 45”.
Kolomenskoye or the Novodevichy monastery
One of the most beautiful architectural ensembles of Moscow, the Novodevichy convent, was founded by Grand Duke Vasily III, father of Ivan the Terrible, in 1524 to commemorate the return of the town of Smolensk to Russia.
As soon as the convent was founded, in the early 16th |
