One hundred seventeen years and two dynasties have passed, but Lord Curzon’s praise still rings true: “the Oriental irregularity and bizarre beauty of Moscow, an Eastern exotic transplanted to the West, an inland Constantinople, a Christian Cairo.” The heartbreakingly charming onion-dome churches of Suzdal and Vladimir, jewels of the Golden Ring, places that encapsulate Russia’s hold on the imagination. St. Petersburg, “silent, lonely beauty,” Lillian Hellman called it. And Tsarskoe Selo, the almost unbelievably extravagant home of the Tsars, “the completest triumph of barbarous taste that I have seen,” harrumphed Sir N. W. Wraxall.

Day 1: Arrive Moscow • Days 2 & 3: Moscow • Day 4: drive to Sergiev Posad and Suzdal • Day 5: Suzdal • Day 6: Suzdal to Vladimir to Moscow, overnight train to St. Petersburg • Days 7 & 8: St. Petersburg and environs • Day 9: excursion to Pushkin and Pavlosk • Day 10: excursion to the estate of Peterhof • Day 11: depart St. Petersburg.

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