Sheremetyevo -
The State Tretyakov Gallery (46 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Ivan the Great Bell-Tower (47 min) Gleaming onion domes top this whitewashed, octagonal bell tower, the Kremlin's tallest structure. Aleksandrovskiy Sad (46 min) Park with lawns, summer blooms & several monuments including one to Marshal Georgy Zhukov. The Moscow Kremlin (46 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Kolomenskoye (39 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (35 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Kuskovo Summer Palace (24 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. State Historical Museum (47 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Armoury Chamber (46 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Bolshoi Theatre (51 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. St. Basil's Cathedral (50 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Dormition Cathedral (44 min) Russian Orthodox cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, dating back to the 14th century with golden domes. Granovitaya Palata (47 min) The main banquet hall of the Russian tsars is found within this impressive 15th century building. Red Square (49 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (50 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. |