Sheremetyevo -
Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (24 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (42 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Peter the Great Statue (46 min) Commemorative statue honoring Tsar Peter the Great & the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (42 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. The State Tretyakov Gallery (40 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Bitsa Park (23 min) Park with dense forest, rivers & ravines, plus medieval burial mounds & pre-revolutionary mansions. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (15 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Музей современного искусства «Гараж» (42 min) Cultural center used for contemporary art exhibitions & research on Russian & international culture. Sparrow Hills (36 min) Hilltop view point with panoramas of the city skyline, Moskva River & Olympic stadium. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (26 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (42 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. Novodevichy Convent (35 min) Riverside 1520s monastery known for its fresco-lined 5-domed cathedral & ornate soaring bell tower. Neskuchnyy Sad (33 min) Park and garden Poklonnaya Hill (32 min) One of Moscow's highest points, home to the Victory Park with World War II displays & a war museum. Kolomenskoye (22 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. |