Weekend tour on the Don

Sun 2 Days Night 3 Nights Trans Overnight trains Deep into russia Deep into Russia Distance 1114km

Tours Weekend Tours  From Moscow  Weekend tour to the Don

  The stanitsa (a traditionally-Cossack settlement) of Vyoshenskaya is a beautiful and interesting place to visit on the River Don. It is closely associated with the Cossacks - and traditional Cossack clay houses and Cossack cuisine can be found here - and with the author Mikhail Sholokhov who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his Cossack-themed novel “And Quiet Flows the Don”.

  Vyoshenskaya was the most beloved place of the author who was born and died here. He was the only Soviet recipient of the Nobel Prize who was allowed to go to Sweden to collect his prize and part of his winnings were spent on building a school in Vyoshenskaya.

  On this tour you will not only see the house where the author was born, but also the estate where Sholokhov spent his later life and entertained such famous guests as Nikita Khruschev and Yury Gagarin. You will also get to try real Cossack cuisine and try your hand at making Cossack vareniks (a dish similar to ravioli), and visit a stables where Don breeds of racehorses are bred. And of course you can't visit this part of Russia without enjoying views of the magnificent River Don. Here the river is coming to the end of its journey from the Tula Region to the Azov Sea and it is indeed flowing quietly.


Moscow → Millerovo → Vyoshenskaya ⇔ Yelanskaya 

 Total distance of the tour: 2,228km -  1934km |  294km


 

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