The Last Days of the Romanovs

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The Last Days of the Romanovs

• Tour-pilgrimage to Yekaterinburg, Alapaevsk, Perm
  Tobolsk
• July, 14-July, 22, 2010

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Marinas Message

• This is a very special tour for me and my
  friends which I hope we will be able to do
  together.
• The tour takes you to all sites connected
  with the last days of the extended Imperial
  family.
• I have chosen to call it a pilgrimage-tour
  because for the many Romanov enthusiasts, the
  places on our route are the places of worship and
  places to say a thanking prayer to the last
  Russian Imperial family.

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Itinerary

• Day 1 Arrival to Yekaterinburg(either by LH
  3204 or via
  ST-Petersburg/Moscow)
• Day 2 Highlight tour of Yekaterinburg
• Day 3 Tour of Alapaevsk
• Day 4 Pilgrimage tour to Ganina Yama
• Day 5 Departure to Tumen by train.
• Tours of Tumen
• Day 6 Departure to Tobolsk.
• Tours of Tobolsk and Village
• of Pokrovskoe.
• Day 7 Departure to Perm. Tours of Perm,
  departure to
• Yekaterinburg
• Day 8 Departure from Yekaterinburg

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Trip Map
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Yekaterinburg

• July, 14 Arrival to Yekaterinburg
• (Option Lufthansa flight LH3204 from
• Frankfurt arrival 3.55 a.m.)
• Transfer to Park Inn Hotel .
• Afternoon Highlight tour of
• the Capital of the Ural mountains incl. a visit
  to the Church on the Blood of all the Russian
  Saints built on the spot of the former Ipatyev
  House, execution site of the last Russian Emperor
  and his family.
• B, Group Dinner

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Alapaevsk

• July,15 7.30 a.m. Travel to Alapaevsk by bus
  (180 km from Yekaterinburg, founded in 1781).
• Day tour includes
• Visit to Alapaevsk mine ( The monastery is being
  built on the spot).
• Visit to the Holy Trinity Cathedral (dates back
  to early 1700s), where the bodies of 5 Grand
  Dukes and the Grand Duchess Ella were buried on
  the 5th of October 1918. When the Red Army was
  approaching Alapaevsk in 1919, the bodies were
  removed to Chita, then to Peking.

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Alapaevsk

• Optional tours
• Museum of Peter Tchaikovsky
• Museum of the Wooden Architecture
• B, Packed Lunch

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Yekaterinburg

• July, 16 Pilgrimage to Ganina Yama and
  attendance of the memorial service at the
  Monastery of the Holy Royal Passion Bearers. All
  day event.
• B, Packed Lunch

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Tymen

• July,17 6.44 a.m. Departure from Yekaterinburg
  to Tymen by train (No 840) (326 km)
• 11.25 a.m. Arrival to Tymen. Transfer to
  President Hotel.
• 2.30 p.m.-5.30 p.m. City Highlight tour includes
• Visit to the house where the nanny of Nicholas II
  used to live
• Visit to Russias gold reserve
• A place where Lenins body used to be hidden
  during the WWII.
• B, Lunch

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Tobolsk

• July,18 7.30 a.m. Departure to Tobolsk by bus
  (247 km from Tymen, founded in 1587, a capital of
  Siberia in XVI-XIX centuries)
• Tour of the Museum of Rasputin on the way in the
  village of Pokrovskoe (90 km from Tymen)
• Check in into the hotel Slavyanskaya
• B, Group dinner

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Tobolsk

• July,19 10.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. Tobolsk Highlight
  tour includes
• A visit to the memorial study of Nicholas II that
  has been opened for 10 years
• The only stone Kremlin in Siberia with its
  ST-Sophia Cathedral of 1686
• B, Lunch
• 7.55 p.m. Departure to Perm by train (No 109 M)
  

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Perm

• July, 20 12.11 a.m. Arrival to Perm (founded in
  1723). Transfer to the hotel Amaks for showers
  and breakfast
• 2.00 p.m.-6.00 p.m. City tour includes
• Visit to the chapel built on the site where
  Mikhail Romanov was murdered
• A tour of the only Museum of the History of the
  Political Repressions in the former
  campPerm-36(village of Kutchino, located 120 km
  from Perm). The camp was first established in
  1946 and closed only in 1988.
• B,L
• 00.04 Departure to Yekaterinburg by train (No
  072E)

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Yekaterinburg

• July, 21 06.40 a.m. Arrival to Yekaterinburg
• Individual arrangements to be made to travel home
  (Moscow, ST-Petersburg or Frankfurt )
• Optional tours offered on July, 21-22

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Verkhoturye and village of Merkushino

• Pilgrimage route to visit several sites
  connected to the life and feats of righteous
  Simeon.
• St. Simeon was a saint worshipped all over
  Russia. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims used to
  come to Merkushino and Verkhoturye every year.
  Grand Duchess Elizabeth also visited this area.
  Members of the Royal Family were known to worship
  the Righteous Simeon praying in front of his icon
  and asking for his assistance in difficult times.
  
• The pilgrimage in the land of St. Simeon begins
  from Merkushino village (50 km from Verkhoturye)
  where he spent his life and where in the end of
  the XVII century his imperishable relics were
  found to visit the churches in the villages of
  Kostyleva and Putimka built on the spots where
  the procession of transferring his holy relics
  from Merkushino village to the town of
  Verkhoturye would stop on the way in 1704, and
  finally the pilgrimage could be ended by viweing
  his holy relics contained in the oldest in Ural
  St. Nicholas monastery of Verkhoturye.

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Bookings

• The Last Days of Romanovs tour land package
  cost 3900 USD per person, single supplement is
  700 USD.
• Individual arrangements and combination with tour
  packages of Moscow and ST-Petersburg are
  possible.
• Please contact us at tours_at_st-petersburg-visit.com
  , marina_s_wilson_at_st-petersburg-visit.com

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Inclusions

• twin share accommodation as per the
  itinerary
• First-class train tickets as per the itinerary
  (twin share cabins)
• Every day breakfasts, group lunches and dinners
  as per itinerary
• Visa support documents (consular fees are
  responsibility of a customer)
• Transportation and museum entrance fees as per
  itinerary
• English-speaking guided service