Your journey to the Land of the Cossacks takes you along the legendary Volga and Don Rivers all the way to the Black Sea.  Spend several days exploring Moscow’s many treasures –Red Square, the Kremlin and Armory Museum—to name just a few.  Travel to the Golden Ring cities—Uglich, Yaroslavl, and Goritsy.  Visit Nizhni, Novgorod, the former home of political exiles, and discover exotic Kazan, present capital of the Tartar Republic.  See Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, and view the site of one of the greatest battles of WWII.  Explore Rostov-on-Don, the “capital” of southern Russia.  It’s a perfect journey—at an exceptional price—for those who wish to venture farther into Russia and its southern borders.
     Your trip includes roundtrip flight to Moscow & from Rostov-on-Don; 14 night cruise in an outside stateroom onboard the Litvinov, all meals onboard the ship including Welcome Aboard and Farewell dinners; all English-speaking guided excursions; culturally-enriching onboard lectures, colorful folkloric performances and evening entertainment; all transfers.
*(Includes a tax deductible donation to the New West Symphony).

     Explore glorious St. Petersburg, conceived by Peter the Great to take Russia from the “Dark Ages” into the “Enlightened Age.”  At Palace Square see the incredible columned façade of the former Winter Palace, an architectural masterpiece of the Russian Baroque and now home to the Hermitage Museum. The Peter and Paul Fortress, built in 1703 and throughout history the symbolic center of the Russian Empire, contains the royal tombs from Peter the Great onward. See the beautiful gold-onion-domed St. Nicholas’ Cathedral which remained open throughout the Soviet era.  Ramble along the 2 ½ mile Nevsky Prospekt, the main thoroughfare of St. Petersburg and considered the most elegant street and the chief shopping area of St. Petersburg.  Other things to see: the magnificient summer palace, Peterhof, one of the world’s most remarkable palace/garden complexes covering nearly 2,500 acres; Smolny Convent where glorious concerts are held; the Mariinsky Theatre, the Pushkin Museum and more.

 Please contact Stan Sutton for further information:
(805)495-1556   (805)496-8556 FAX  natsnottus@aol.com