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Russia's Silver RUSSIA’S SILVER AGE FROM FABERGÉ TO THE AVANT-GARDE JANUARY 5-18, 2021 TOUR LEADER: DR MATTHEW DAL SANTO RUSSIA’S SILVER AGE Overview FROM FABERGÉ TO THE AVANT-GARDE Immerse yourself in the energy, splendour and romance of turn-of-the-century Russia. Tour dates: January 5-18, 2021 Our tour begins with seven nights in Moscow’s famous Metropol Hotel, Tour leader: Dr Matthew Dal Santo setting of Amos Towles’ best-selling A Gentleman in Moscow and a Silver Age icon in its own right, opened in 1903. Enjoy breakfast in the glass- Tour Price: $12,125 per person, twin share domed ballroom or order a drink at the same bar as Count Rostov after an evening at the Bolshoi, and profit from the Metropole’s prime location at Single Supplement: $2,135 for sole use of the very heart of Russia’s buzzing, modern capital. Russia is today the double room world’s largest Orthodox nation, and the tour is timed to coincide with the romance of Orthodox Christmas (7 January), when Red Square is decked Booking deposit: $1000 per person with lights and St Basil’s polychromatic onion domes glisten under a crust of snow. Recommended airline: Emirates and Qatar Airways Travelling by modern, high-speed train to St Petersburg, we then savour six nights at the elegant Astoria (established 1911), where the vista of Maximum places: 20 perfectly starched liveries brings to life the refined atmosphere of late Imperial Russia’s gilded capital. A generation after the collapse of Itinerary: Moscow (7 nights), St Petersburg Communism, the mantle of Soviet “Leningrad” has been swept away to (6 nights) reveal the city of the Tsars in its former glory. Date published: May 11, 2020 Both cities boast an outstanding assembly of world-class museums and galleries, combined with excellent restaurants, almost unlimited opportunities for shopping and, of course, two of the world’s most acclaimed ballet companies. With a focus on the artistic and architectural legacy of Russia’s Silver Age, we visit not only the best-known but also the smaller, more intimate venues usually omitted from generalist itineraries, while morning lectures with a period specialist put the Silver Age’s leading artistic figures and movements in context ahead of gallery and museum visits. Your tour leader Dr Matthew Dal Santo is a historian with a longstanding love for the history and culture of late Imperial Russia. Author of The Romanovs and the Redemption of Russia (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), he is an expert in the cultural, philosophical and theological dimensions of Russia’s extraordinary Silver Age (and a keen observer of modern-day Russians’ ongoing grappling with them today). Enquiries With a BA (Hons I) from the University of Sydney and PhD from and bookings Cambridge, he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; the Kennan Institute for Russian and For further information and to Eastern European Affairs, Washington, D.C.; and the Catholic University secure a place on this tour of America, Washington, D.C. Having led Academy Travel’s standard please contact Lynsey Moscow & St Petersburg tour for many years, he is an experienced and Jenkins at Academy Travel on popular tour leader, who also leads Academy Travel’s Siberia & Russian 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 Far East and Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan tours. Living in (outside Sydney) or email Copenhagen, Denmark, with his wife and daughter, he speaks Russian, [email protected] French, Italian, and Danish. He is convinced that nobody who encounters the legacy of the Russian Silver Age will come away anything but dazzled. Tour Highlights THE GLAMOUR AND ELEGANCE Experience the glamour and elegance of late Imperial Russia with 13 nights in two of Russia’s most iconic and elegant Silver Age hotels. Fancy yourself a “gentleman in Moscow” at the art nouveau Metropol (1903) and imagine the purr of Petersburg high society at the aristocratic Astoria (1911). Both hotels have been fully renovated and simultaneously offer the highest modern comfort. THE DAZZLING ART & ARCHITECTURE Explore the dazzling array of art and architecture of Russia’s Silver Age. Discover the legacy of a cultural renaissance as creatively bold and fertile as any in history and learn how the Russian arts were transformed from the realism of “The Wanderers” to the arrival of the art nouveau and the birth of Russia’s world-changing avant-garde, in an outstanding array of galleries and museums. THE ROMANCE OF A RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS Trade the heat of the Australian summer for snow-blanketed Russia. Savour the magical interaction of snow, fairy lights, and onion domes of Russian Orthodox Christmas in Moscow’s bewitching Red Square, attend the solemn, candle- lit Christmas liturgy and enjoy a traditional Russian church choir, and glide across the frozen park of one of the Tsar’s palaces in a troika or traditional horse-drawn sleigh. THE WORLD’S GREAT BALLET COMPANIES Enjoy a Russian Christmas institution with a matinée performance of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker by the acclaimed Bolshoi, see the stage as the Tsar himself did with exclusive use of the Imperial Box at a performance by St Petersburg’s Mariinsky, and compare the merits and very differing styles of these modern-day successors to Russia’s famed Imperial Ballet. THE TRAGEDY OF WAR & REVOLUTION Retrace the footsteps of Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II and the revolutionaries who agitated for the downfall of the Romanovs, and, stepping into the world of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, learn why the Russian Empire’s Silver Age renaissance instead miscarried into the Civil War and 70 years of Communist dictatorship – with repercussions for the whole world Detailed itinerary Included meals are shown with the symbols B, L and D. Tour start & finish time The tour begins at 3.00pm on Tuesday January 5, at The Metropol Hotel, Moscow. The tour ends after breakfast on Monday January 18, at The Astoria Hotel, St Petersburg. Tuesday January 5 ARRIVE MOSCOW Arrival day. Join the tour leader and manager for welcome drinks and a tour of Count Rostov’s haunts before a light dinner in our hotel, the famous Moscow Metropol. Overnight Moscow (D) Wednesday January 6 Red Square & St Basil's Above: Moscow's iconic Red Square, flanked by the onion domes of (Orthodox Christmas Eve) St Basil Cathedral under a blanket of snow The tour begins with a lecture in the hotel on the political and Below: Christmas comes alive outside the stately GUM shopping social history of Late Imperial Russia, from the assassination of complex, with markets filling Red Square; and the Bolshoi’s Tsar Alexander II in 1881 to the October Manifesto of 1905 sumptuous production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker (which granted Russians their first political and civil rights) as the setting for the cultural and artistic explosion of the Silver Age. Afterwards, we depart on a walking tour of Moscow’s iconic Red Square, stately GUM shopping complex (glittering this time of year with Christmas lights) and the unmistakable St Basil’s Cathedral. Impressive at any time, Red Square resounds in winter with the swoosh of ice-skates. This evening we enjoy our own Russian-style Christmas dinner at a central Moscow restaurant. Overnight Moscow (B, D) Thursday January 7 The Nutcracker at the Bolshoi (Orthodox Christmas Day) We begin with the first of several lectures on the art of the Russian Silver Age. Our focus today is on the “The Wanderers” (or peredvizhniki in Russian) who, in breaking away from the Russian Academy of Art in the 1870s, set in motion the revival of a distinctly Russian national artistic tradition and the arrival and reception in Russia of the principles and techniques of Western European impressionism. By tradition, the Bolshoi stages a sumptuous production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker every Christmas and this afternoon we enjoy a matinée performance of this classic ballet in its land of origin. The evening is at leisure. Overnight Moscow (B) Friday January 8 Old Tretyakov & Pushkin Museums Today, we immerse ourselves in Russia’s Silver Age. Our first visit is to the so-called “Old” State Tretyakov Museum. Originally a private collection, the Tretyakov houses the world’s premiere collection of Russian art. We concentrate on the period between 1871 and 1914, when the focus of Russian art migrated from realism to landscape and impressionist-style experimentation. The gallery has a cosy restaurant and, after lunch, we explore the nearby Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna – elder sister of Russia’s last Empress – after the assassination of her husband in 1905) which is decorated with frescoes by the acclaimed Silver Age artist Mikhail Nesterov. We then travel by coach to Ryabushinsky Mansion (also known as “Gorky’s House”), a celebrated art nouveau dwelling designed by Russia’s leading architect of the style moderne, Feodor Shechtel, in 1902. After a break for afternoon tea, we conclude the day with a guided tour of the famous impressionist galleries of Moscow’s just renowned Pushkin Museum – a leading source of inspiration at the dawn of the 20th century for Russia’s emerging avant-garde artists. Overnight Moscow (B) Saturday January 9 The Kremlin The Orthodox religion, with otherworldly icons, liturgy and centuries-old mystical tradition, was “re-discovered” by Russia’s previously positivist and Enlightenment-inspired intelligentsia during the Silver Age. At that time, the Kremlin was as much a religious citadel as it was a political one, and our touring this morning begins with a visit to the Kremlin’s ancient, onion- domed cathedrals at their most beautiful under a crust of snow.
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