Sheremetyevo -
Armoury Chamber (43 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Grand Kremlin Palace (44 min) Immense 1800s palace complex at the Kremlin with opulent private chambers & ceremonial halls. Bolshoi Theatre (50 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. The Moscow Kremlin (44 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Red Square (48 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. State Historical Museum (45 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (43 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. The State Tretyakov Gallery (47 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Kuskovo Summer Palace (24 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. All-Russian Exhibition Center (35 min) High profile exhibition, fair & congress center opened in 1939 with halls for up to 500 people St. Basil's Cathedral (49 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (48 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. Museum of Cosmonautics (33 min) Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (43 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Izmailovo Kremlin (28 min) Cultural center with Russian Revival-style edifices, costumed workers, museums, workshops & markets. |