There’s no cruise like the Volga cruise. No cruise that places you so completely in another place and time. Europe’s longest and largest river stretches from Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great to Catherine the Great, and on into today, where life along Russia’s central artery looks very much like it always has—the churches, the villages, the people comprising scenes from an old painting you may swear you’ve seen hanging in a gallery. There is no better way to see Russia than cruising the Volga as the Romanovs once did, along the country’s national river.
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As rare as a trip along the Upper Volga may be, the Lower Volga, running south and away from the population centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, is still an area of outstanding beauty largely unexplored by tourists. Here grasslands, coastal forests, and dense thickets of reeds provide a habitat for wildlife seen nowhere else in Russia.
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