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"Marc Chagall and Vitebsk Art School"

Tour Description

This tour is not meant for experts in arts. It is for everyone who appreciates the beautiful be it the surrounding nature, music, fine arts or just someone’s extraordinarily happy life. During the tour you will have a look at works created by Marc Chagall - one on the most successful man of the first part of the 20th century. You will get familiar with works of many Belarusian artists as well as of the Russian ones whose life and creative activity in this or that way were connected with Belarus. On the way from Minsk to Vitebsk you will enjoy the beautiful Belarusian landscapes and of course visit magic Vitebsk. Marc Chagall’s brilliant travel into the world of arts started from this city. This city inspired a lot of poets, writers and other famous people. During the tour you will lean a lot, meet people of creative professions and, who knows, may be Vitebsk will encourage you too. 

PROGRAM

Whensday

• Arrival at «Minsk 2I» National Airport 
  Czech Airlines, 14:30 .
  Lufthansa Airlines, 13:30
• Check in at the “Belarus”  or "Orbita" hotel
• Gala Dinner at the hotel
• Overnight at the hotel (B&B).

Thursday

• City tour of Minsk.
• Visit to State National Art Museum (a retrospective exposition of the 12th – the first third of the 20th century Belarusian art, the late 16th– early 20th century West European art, a collection of Russian and Belarusian pre-revolutionary art). The only existing portrait of Marc Chagall made by his first teacher Yu.Pen is exhibited in the museum.
• Overnight at the hotel (B&B).

Friday

• Visit to Museum of Zair Azgur (Belarusian sculptor, graduate of Vitebsk Art School).
• “Vernisage” art market.
• Departure for Vitebsk
• Arrival at Vitebsk
• Check in at the “Eridan”hotel
• Dinner in the hotel
• Overnight in the hotel (B&B)

Saturday

• City tour of Vitebsk combined with visit to workshops of Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich in the former building of the Vitebsk Art School, workshops of modern Vitebsk artists.  
• Visit to Vitebsk Regional Art Museum (collection of works of painter-realist Yu. Pen, famous Belarusian and Russian artists of the 18th -20th centuries, 19th century Belarusian embroidery of the same period).  
• Overnight at the hotel (B&B)

Sunday

• Visit to Art–Center of Marc Chagall to see the artist’s original works (colored lithographs, xylographs, etchings with famous images: flying lovers, fiddler on the roof, acrobats, animals and birds will bring you into a bright and mysterious world of the artist). Visit to House – Museum of Marc Chagall accommodated in the building in the Pokrovskaya street where the artist spent his childhood and youth (interior of the house was recreated thanks to the artist’s sketches, family photographs, pictures made in Germany, Paris and US, will remind that you heard about him long ago but never guessed he was from Belarus).
• “Violin of Mark Chagall” Program (pieces of classical & Jewish music, tea from a real Russian samovar in the garden of the museum).

Monday

• Lunch at the “Eridan” hotel
• Departure for Minsk
• Check in at the “Belarus” hotel
• Overnight in the hotel (B&B).
• Time at Leisure
• Departure from “Minsk II” National Airport 
  Czech Airlines, 15;00.
  Lufthansa Airlines, 14:25