New tourist routes have been presented by the Kostroma Region officials at the international Tourism and Recreation exhibition held in Moscow.
      
      Holidaymakers are invited on a journey from the Kingdom of Berendey to the town of popular welfare. The three-day trip makes its first stop in the settlement of Shchelykovo intriguing tourists with semi-kitsch routines after the Snow Maiden, a story by the famous dramatist Alexander Ostrovsky.
      
      The second stop is at Manturovo, where as the local rumour goes, there were wool-covered people living in the nineteenth century.
      
      The last stop will be at the village of Shablovo, the home to the original artist and philosopher Efim Chestnyakov. For many years the village remained deserted, but now the people are back with five dwellings populated.
      
      This is just one of the new routes through the picturesque Kostroma Region, a place where genuine Russia still lingers on.
      
      Russia-IC archive:
      Kostroma
      Kostroma History
      History of Theatre
      
      Other useful links on the topic:
      http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/alexander_ostrovsky_001.html
      http://www.geraklfilm.ru/myths/soc/indexe.html