Sheremetyevo -
Muzey-Zapovednik Kolomenskoye (32 min) ХК 'Остров мечты' (37 min) Character-themed thrill rides, plus indoor streets replicating cities like London & Barcelona. Kuskovo Summer Palace (33 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. Shukhov Tower (41 min) A 160m-high radio tower constructed from latticed steelwork & completed in 1922. Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery (17 min) Darwin Museum (45 min) Animatronic dinosaurs & high-tech displays in natural history/evolution museum dedicated to Darwin. Izmailovsky Park (34 min) Extensive wooded green space with a big wheel & fairground rides, play areas, skate & bike rental. Bol'shoy Dvorets (28 min) Palace and history Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (22 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (31 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Novospassky Monastery (37 min) Orthodox place of worship & former home church of the Romanovs, Russia's last Imperial family. Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (29 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. Borisovskiye Prudy (22 min) Park and river Neskuchnyy Sad (41 min) Park and garden Kolomenskoye (28 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. |