Discover Moscow!

Welcome to the capital of Russia - Moscow!

Meeting at the airport with English Speaking guide and private transfer in a luxury vehicle to the centrally located hotel. The rest of the day – at leisure.

Chudo Grad in Izmaylovo and matryoshka painting class, VDNKH park, Metro ride

AM - Miracle City” or “Chudo Grad” in Izmaylovo – open air souvenir market and matryoshka painting class We offer you the visit to Russian handicraft centre – Izmaylovo, famous for its open air souvenir market. Izmaylovo is one of the oldest parts of Moscow, where the second Romanov Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich had his summer residence where his son Peter the Great was brought up. At the present moment the complex occupies the territory of 17 hectares and includes: trade town (with streets of private booth-shops where the clients can see and buy great variety of traditional Russian crafts objects – famous matryoshkas, wood-carving goods, porcelain, glass, birch bark items, Russian Army uniforms, badges, etc.), traditional crafts workshops where once can see the process of creation of handicraft items, “Russian Yard” – a copy of a traditional wooden settlement with wooden churches, houses. Enjoy Matryoshka (the famous Russian nestling dolls) painting class! The guests are taken to the classes of Applied Art College where they attend a lesson of traditional Russian painting of matryoshka doll. The clients get acquainted with the techniques of painting, get the set of paints and a wooden unpainted doll to make an attempt to do the painting themselves and get the painted item as souvenir. After the painting class the guests may spend time in the market looking for the souvenirs. Time for lunch PM VDNKH park - Metro ride Then you’ll continue by car to a very interesting place, called “VDNKH” called now “VVTS” – All Russia Exhibition centre. Once known as the Exhibition of the People's Economic Achievements, this vast exhibition ground was established in the time of Stalin to showcase the achievements of communism. History of “Russia's Main Exhibition” began from request of the 2nd All-Union Congress of Collective Shock- Farmers to the central bodies of the Communist party and government to organize in Moscow the All-Union Exhibition of Agriculture. The request was satisfied, and the Head Exhibition Committee was formed in 1939, at the time of Stalin’s regime. The All-Union Exhibition of Agriculture has become an original contribution into the capital’s city architecture. An exhibition city that had sprung to life near its northern border on a 136 ha area included ponds, parks, experimental plots, 250 constructions of all kinds. The alleys of the complex is famous place for roller-skaters. Each pavilion was distinguished for its own original features based on use in construction of the national motives. In 1990 the place went sadly dilapidated - mainly busy with different trading centres and shops. Now the region sees the 2nd birth with lots of investment here when the old pavilions get new life, new pavilions are constructed, lots of restoration work is going on, flowerbeds and parks laid out . Today it is not only the favorite place for locals to walk or cycle (in winter there is a biggest skating rink here) but also a place of different exhibitions and museums including the newly opened Space Pavillion. Continue for Moscow underground. Moscow underground is not only the fastest means of transportation in the city but also a unique architectural ensemble. Major stations built in 30s of last century look like palaces richly decorated with marble, mosaic and semi-precious stones. During the tour you will visit the oldest and the most beautiful metro-stations. The guide will tell you thrilling facts of these “underground palaces” – each of these stations may be rightfully called a jewel of the world’s underground architecture.