• 7:10 PM - Aeroflot 103, Depart: New York

• 11:15 AM - Arrive: Moscow

• Hotel National (check-in) 74952587000, 811674996 15/1 mokhovaya str bld 1, Moscow (great location across the street from the Kremlin, so you can easliy walk to Red Square)

• Dinner on Red Square

Breakfast at the hotel

Day visiting the Kremlin, GUM, Red Square and generally getting our feet on the ground

Blini's for lunch

Dinner on Red Square

• Breakfast at the hotel

• Exploring St Basils (we were lucky and got to enjoy a choral group performing

• A walk past the Kremlin to visit Christ the Redeemer Cathedral

• Art in the Metro Stations

• A visit to Arbat Street

• Dinner on Red Square

• Breakfast at the hotel

• Quick taxi ride to the train station and board train to Sergeyiv Possad

• Explore the monastery and lunch in town

• Train ride back to Moscow

• Dinner at Hard Rock Moscow

• Drinks on Red Square (our last night here)

• 8:30 AM - Hotel National (check-out)

• 9:40 AM - high speed rail - Sapsan 760A - Depart: Moscow

• 1:40 PM - Arrive: St Petersburg

• 2:00 PM - Taxi From Sapsan To Hotel Indigo (note you can make reservations for the taxi on the train from Moscow

• 3:15 PM Hotel Indigo St Petersburg Tchaikovskogo (check-in), 78124545577, 17 Tchaikovskogo Ulitsa, St Petersburg

• 7:30 PM - Swan Lake, Mikhailovsky Theater

• Dostoyeski Museam

• Fabrege Musem

• Peter and Paul Fortress

• Church of the Spilled Blood

• Boat trip up river to Peterhof

• Exploring the city

• Hermitage museum

• Cathedrals

• Food

• Visit to Catherine the Great's palace

• Explore the city

• 8:15 AM - Hotel Indigo St Petersburg Tchaikovskogo (check-out)

• 10:40 AM - Aeroflot 11, Depart: St. Petersburg

• 11:55 AM - Arrive: Moscow

• 2:25 PM - Aeroflot 102, Depart: Moscow

• 5:20 PM - Arrive: New York