Russia Tour Package: Golden Domes & Red Squares

Arrive at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow. Private hotel transfer. Evening: Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin illuminated at night. GUM department store exterior. Overnight in Moscow.

Morning: Moscow Kremlin Armoury Chamber, Assumption Cathedral & Diamond Fund. Afternoon: Tretyakov Gallery (the world's greatest collection of Russian art). Evening: Moscow Metro tour: Komsomolskaya, Mayakovskaya & Novoslobodskaya stations decorated like underground palaces. Overnight in Moscow.

Morning: Bolshoi Theatre exterior & nearby Pushkin Square. Afternoon: Old Arbat Street, Moscow's bohemian pedestrian quarter, with artists & souvenir stalls. Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Overnight in Moscow.

Sapsan train from Moscow Leningradsky Station to St. Petersburg (4 hrs, 250 km/h). Arrive in St. Petersburg. Afternoon: Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's main boulevard. Church of the Saviour on Spilt Blood, extraordinary exterior mosaic covering. Overnight in St. Petersburg.

Morning: State Hermitage Museum, with 3 million artefacts in 365 rooms across the Winter Palace. Da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Matisse & Picasso collections. Afternoon: St. Petersburg canal boat cruise, the "Venice of the North." Peter and Paul Fortress. Overnight in St. Petersburg.

Morning: Catherine's Palace at Pushkin (30 mins), the extraordinary Golden Amber Room, one of history's most valuable reconstructed interiors. Afternoon: Peterhof Palace & Grand Cascade fountains, Peter the Great's magnificent summer palace on the Gulf of Finland (UNESCO). Overnight in St. Petersburg.

Morning: St. Isaac's Cathedral panoramic view from the colonnade. Palace Square & Alexander Column. Transfer to Pulkovo Airport. Departure.