Treasures of the Relic Russia

13.12 Meeting at Plesetskaya railway station.
13.30 - 17.30 Bus transfer to Vershinino village (180 km). Accommodation at the park's guest house.
17.30 Dinner. Russian banya.

09.00 Breakfast.
10.00 - 12.30 Excursion around Vershinino village. Lumber Storehouse Museum: here you will learn the history of old strange things.
13.00 Lunch.
14.00 - 18.00 Boat excursion around Kenozero: visit to St. Vlasiy chapel (XIX cent.), juniper valley on Medvezhiy island (the biggest island of the park), St. John the Divine chapel (XVIII cent.) in Zekhnovo village, "cross" chapel (XIX cent., the smallest chapel in Russia) and St. Paraskevia chapel in Tirishkino village.
Dinner cooked in Russian stove according to traditional local recipes, served in a peasants' house.
Back to Vershinino village.

09.00 Breakfast
10.00 - 12.00 excursion around Kenozersky national park's visit-center. It is situated in a restored merchant's house (beginning of the XX cent.) "Kenozero house" exposition shows real interiors of a rich peasant's house of the beginning of the XX cent. "Literature in Kenozerie" exposition on the second floor is dedicated to local traditional epics and famous investigators of the northern folclore Gilferding, Rybnikov, Nechaeva and Kharuzina.
"Isograph studio" exhibits the collection of icons from the most important churches of Kenozerie.
13.00 Lunch.
14.00 - 18.00 Boat excursion around Kenozero: visit to the Holy Spirit chapel (XIX cent.) situated between two hills where villages were situated before and between two bays, Presentation of the Holy Virgin chapel (XIX cent.) in Ryzhkovo village, Centre for trades and handicrafts in Ust-Pocha village. Here you will have tee with traditional pies and pancakes, a folclore concert and a class on local technology of birch braiding.
Back to Vershinino village.
20.00 Russian banya.

09.00 Breakfast.
10.00 Excursion on traditions of carpenters' work at "Woodworker studio".
11.00 - 11.40 Transfer to Filippovskaya village with a stop at a wish tree.
11.40 - 13.00 Excursion to the architectural complex of Pechorsky churchyard (XVIII - XIX cent.). It is a unique monument of federal level, one of five triple ansambles left at the Russia North. Visit to an ancient cemetery, Kirik and Ulita chapel (XIX cent.) Picnik at Pochozero lake. Back to Vershinino village.
18.00 Dinner.
19.00 Transfer to Plesetskaya railway station.