Sheremetyevo -
Izmailovo Kremlin (37 min) Cultural center with Russian Revival-style edifices, costumed workers, museums, workshops & markets. Izmailovsky Park (34 min) Extensive wooded green space with a big wheel & fairground rides, play areas, skate & bike rental. Dvorets Tsarya Alekseya Mikhaylovicha V Kolomenskom (41 min) Re-creation of a wooden 17th-century tsar's palace, with turrets, gilded interiors & guided tours. Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery (24 min) Park Kuskovo (33 min) Kuskovo Summer Palace (33 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. ХК 'Остров мечты' (41 min) Character-themed thrill rides, plus indoor streets replicating cities like London & Barcelona. Krutitskoye Patriarsheye Podvor'ye (37 min) Tours are offered of this 1600s estate of the Russian Orthodox Church, with two churches & mass. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (34 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (43 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Dvorets Usad'by Bykovo (25 min) Kuzminki Forest Park (19 min) Park and forest Usad'ba Izmaylovo (40 min) Former country estate of the Romanov tsars, with imposing manor houses & a church in leafy parkland. Kolomenskoye (40 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Novospassky Monastery (36 min) Orthodox place of worship & former home church of the Romanovs, Russia's last Imperial family. |