Sheremetyevo -
Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (15 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. Red Square (14 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. Granovitaya Palata (19 min) The main banquet hall of the Russian tsars is found within this impressive 15th century building. The State Tretyakov Gallery (20 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. All-Russian Exhibition Center (19 min) High profile exhibition, fair & congress center opened in 1939 with halls for up to 500 people The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (17 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Museum of Cosmonautics (18 min) Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age. State Historical Museum (18 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (21 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. St. Basil's Cathedral (15 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Bolshoi Theatre (17 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. Armoury Chamber (18 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (18 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. The Moscow Kremlin (18 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Dormition Cathedral (17 min) Russian Orthodox cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, dating back to the 14th century with golden domes. |