Waterways of Russia
July 17 - 28, 2022
Featuring Professor André Dombrowski

Waterways of Russia

Discover the timeless pageantry and traditions along the scenic rivers, lakes, and canals that link Russia’s cultural capitals. Cruise for six nights aboard the chartered, deluxe 90-passenger Volga Dream. Also, spend three nights in five-star accommodations in St. Petersburg and one night in Moscow. Enjoy an early entrance guided tour of the State Hermitage Museum and visits to Catherine Palace in Pushkin and Petrodvorets. Explore Russia’s heartland in 10th-century Uglich and medieval Yaroslavl, the 14th-century Kirillo-Belozersky monastery near Goritsy, and the open-air museum of Kizhi Island. Enjoy traditional Russian tea and cakes in a Svirstroy villager’s home. Extend your stay with the Moscow post-program option.

Faculty Host

André Dombrowski

André Dombrowski is Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th-Century European Art, having joined the faculty at Penn in 2008. His research centers on the arts and material cultures of Europe and its empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Impressionism and Modernism. He lectures regularly on the Russian avant-garde as well as art and architecture in St. Petersburg, and has written on such crucial artists as Cézanne, Manet, Monet, and Degas. His special emphasis concerns the social and intellectual rationales behind the emergence of modernist painting. Professor Dombrowski received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2006, and holds an M.A. from the University of Hamburg and another from London’s Courtauld Institute of Art. He was awarded a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2008-09, membership in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, at Princeton in 2012-13, and the 2020-21 Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
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ITINERARY

1  Depart from the U.S. or Canada
2  St. Petersburg, Russia
3  St. Petersburg
4  St. Petersburg
5  St. Petersburg/Embark Volga Dream
6  Neva River/Lake Ladoga/Svirstroy/ Svir River/Lake Onega
7  Kizhi Island/Lake Onega
8  Lake Beloye/Goritsy/Sheksna River
9  Lake Rybinskoye/Yaroslavl
10  Uglich/Volga River
11  Moscow/Disembark ship
12  Moscow/Return to the U.S. or Canada
*Cruise itinerary subject to change.

 

Ship Info: 
Volga Dream deck plan

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