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Except Mondays and Tuesdays
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Excursion duration is 4 hours (including transfer time). Tour price includes transportation, license guide service and entrance tickets.
Excursion program: You will visit the oldest convent (founded in 1524 to celebrate the retaking of Smolensk from Lithuania), which was originally popular with noblewomen, who would often retire here, but it was also used as a prison for rebellious royals, including Peter the Great's half-sister and his first wife.The cemetery, cluster of 16 sparkling domes behind turreted walls, is the resting place of world-known writers, composers and politicians (Chekhov, Eisenstein, Gogol, Khrushchev, Kropotkin, Mayakovsky, Prokofiev, Stanislavsky and Shostakovich, Khruschev, etc).
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