Sheremetyevo -
Museum of Cosmonautics (25 min) Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age. Red Square (27 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (27 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Granovitaya Palata (33 min) The main banquet hall of the Russian tsars is found within this impressive 15th century building. Novodevichy Convent (27 min) Riverside 1520s monastery known for its fresco-lined 5-domed cathedral & ornate soaring bell tower. Bolshoi Theatre (28 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. State Historical Museum (24 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. St. Basil's Cathedral (28 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Ostankino Television Tower (25 min) Rocket-like TV tower with 45 levels & an open-air observation deck accessible by guided tour only. The Moscow Kremlin (27 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. All-Russian Exhibition Center (27 min) High profile exhibition, fair & congress center opened in 1939 with halls for up to 500 people Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (30 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. Armoury Chamber (32 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. The State Tretyakov Gallery (31 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (27 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. |