Sheremetyevo -
Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (24 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (36 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (32 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. Novodevichy Convent (28 min) Riverside 1520s monastery known for its fresco-lined 5-domed cathedral & ornate soaring bell tower. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (31 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Red Square (35 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. The State Tretyakov Gallery (33 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. State Historical Museum (33 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. St. Basil's Cathedral (36 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Armoury Chamber (32 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. All-Russian Exhibition Center (33 min) High profile exhibition, fair & congress center opened in 1939 with halls for up to 500 people Bolshoi Theatre (38 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. Kolomenskoye (25 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (33 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. The Moscow Kremlin (32 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. |