Why Go?
Russia's heart and soul, filled with churches and historical monuments.
Fashionable cafés and hip clubs (signs of Moscow's new gilded age).
World-class ballet and opera—not to mention the circus.
What to Skip
Stary Arbat: Tacky souvenir stalls blight this once-charming cobbled street.
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Built under the instruction of Ivan the Terrible to celebrate the capture of an enemy and placed in a prime position facing across Red Square, the...
(Churches & Abbeys)
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The Kremlin is more than just a Russian version of the Houses of Parliament, as cold war spy novels may have lead you to believe, but is the fortified...
(Monuments & Landmarks)
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22/04/1870 – 21/01/1924
First Soviet leader. Lenin's body is embalmed and on display inside a humidified glass casket within the pyramidal marble...
(People)
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Re-enact your cold war fantasies by flying a MiG Fighter Jet in the sky over Moscow. From Zhukovsky Airbase, you’ll get suited up (a la Top Gun) and...
(Extreme Machines)
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The delicate, neo-classical beauty of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow makes its sheer size something of a shock when it is seen...
(Churches & Abbeys)
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Café Pushkin opened its doors less than four years ago, fast earning the reputation among locals and on the international scene as the finest...
(Restaurant)
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'Here is one of the last paintings Cézanne made of the mountain, and without the accompanying photograph of the motif it might be considered highly...
(Works of Art)
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Could this be the world’s as well as Russia’s most famous square? Possibly. It is known the world over because of the buildings on its edges: the...
(Historic)
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Perhaps the most famous train-route of all - the fantasy of every short-trousered boy who has ever stood at Victoria Station and watched people depart...
(Trains)
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Moscow's finest arts museum, with a huge collection of Western art. It has excellent displays of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, with French...
(Art Collections)
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21/12/1879 – 05/03/1953
Socialist leader of the USSR.
(People)
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The Novodevichy Convent, in south-western Moscow, built in the 16th and 17th centuries in the so-called Moscow Baroque style, was part of a chain of...
(Churches & Abbeys)
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The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to...
(Churches & Abbeys)
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Also known as the Cathedral of the Annunciation, this pretty white and gold example of 15th Century religious architecture is close to the Kremlin, on...
(Churches & Abbeys)
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A treasury of Russian fine art, the Tretyakov Gallery displays art by Russian artists, artists who have had a profound effect on the Russian art world...
(Art Collections)
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Arbat Street and Square are pedestrianised areas in Moscow’s old bohemian district. Now populated by tourist stores and souvenir stands this area was...
(Historic)
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Cathedral of St. Basil
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