Sheremetyevo -
Red Square (39 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (34 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Bolshoi Theatre (40 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (39 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (34 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. The Moscow Kremlin (35 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Museum of Cosmonautics (28 min) Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age. Armoury Chamber (35 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. The State Tretyakov Gallery (35 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. All-Russian Exhibition Center (30 min) High profile exhibition, fair & congress center opened in 1939 with halls for up to 500 people Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (39 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. St. Basil's Cathedral (40 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Kuskovo Summer Palace (9 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. Kolomenskoye (33 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. State Historical Museum (36 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. |