“Primitively simple in color, primitively simple in masonry...” Ivan Bunin described this amazing region in his diaries. And it became his story. How the last Emperor of All Rus' became his story...
The land of Jews, Greeks and Romans, Crusaders and Seljuks, Turks and British, Arabs and Jews... This land is also Russian. Russian Jerusalem is only a part of Russian Palestine. Russian Israel is a big part of Russian history.
Day 1. Mediterranean Sea.
Meeting at the airport. Getting to know the geographical center of the country. Hotel accommodation. Excursion around Tel Aviv: Russian Cultural Center, Museum of Russian Art. Maria and Mikhail Tsetlin. Compound in honor of the Holy Righteous Tabitha of the Russian Spiritual Mission of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Ayarkon Park, Russian seasons of the Habima Theater - from K. Stanislavsky and E. Vakhtangov to Y. Lyubimov.
Jaffa: st. Pushkin and st. Gorky, ancient port, House of the tanner Simon, Russian parish in the Greek Orthodox monastery of the Jerusalem Patriarchate.
Day 2. Sea of Galilee.
Muscovy and the Sergius Compound in Nazareth. Main places of worship for believers from Russia. Cana of Galilee. Russian tradition of communion with French Cahors. The courtyard of Mary Magdalene on the shores of the Tiberian Sea. Tiberias is a pilgrimage center of the Moscow Patriarchate. The Kuragin dynasty and the Russian history of Voronezh settlers in Galilee. The Jordan River, Russian pilgrimage and Russian speech in the kibbutzim of the Jordan Valley. History of the settlement of Yavniel.
Day 3. Jerusalem.
Mount of Olives, Russian Spiritual Mission, history of the creation of the Monastery of Olives of the Ascension, “Russian Candle”. Orthodox Palestinian Society. The Romanov family, Russian Gethsemane and the Russian monastery of Mary Magdalene. Church of Alexander Nevsky and the Threshold of the Gates of Judgment. Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Golgotha, Stone of Anointing, Edicule - the tomb of the Lord, the place of the descent of the Holy Fire). Trinity Cathedral on Moscow Square and Sergius Metochion of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Gorno Monastery in Ein Kerem.
Day 4. Bethlehem and Hebron.
Russian Center for Science and Culture and the buildings of the Russian Spiritual Mission. Church of the Nativity and the Crimean War of 1853. Hebron - Monastery of the Holy Trinity. Representative office of Russian cooperation in Hebron.
Day 5. Along the Dead Sea.
Faran Lavra, monastery of St. Khariton.
Jericho. Metochion of St. John the Baptist in Jericho. House of Zacchaeus. Byzantine buildings with mosaics from the 6th century. with the Greek inscription: “The tomb of blessed Kyriakos, presbyter and abbot, who built the holy chapel of the glorious martyr George and brought it as a gift to the most holy new temple of the glorious Mother of God in Jerusalem.”
Zacchaeus tree on the street. Medvedev. Russian museum and park complex.*
Qumran. Film about the Dead Sea Scrolls, an archaeological park on the site of an ancient Judeo-Christian community*. If desired, relax on the beach or in the SPA* of the hotel in the oasis of Ein Bokkek.
*pay for entrance to the facilities yourself
Days 6 and 7. Red Sea
Eilat resort. Russian businesses in the southernmost resort of Israel.
Options: The aquarium is one of the world's best displays of corals, marine animals and inhabitants of the Red Sea. Dolphinarium - the story of the relocation of dolphins from Sevastopol Laspi Bay, documentary film. Unique relaxation pools in the dolphinarium. Diving with Russian-speaking instructors. Timna Reserve and Copper Mines of King Solomon. A boat ride with a transparent bottom over a coral reef.
*the program is subject to changes and additions at the request of clients.
