Sheremetyevo -
The Moscow Kremlin (46 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Kuskovo Summer Palace (26 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. Red Square (51 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. Bolshoi Theatre (53 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. State Historical Museum (47 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Dormition Cathedral (45 min) Russian Orthodox cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, dating back to the 14th century with golden domes. St. Basil's Cathedral (51 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Granovitaya Palata (47 min) The main banquet hall of the Russian tsars is found within this impressive 15th century building. Aleksandrovskiy Sad (47 min) Park with lawns, summer blooms & several monuments including one to Marshal Georgy Zhukov. The State Tretyakov Gallery (48 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Kolomenskoye (41 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Armoury Chamber (46 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (37 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (51 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (48 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. |