Sheremetyevo -
Tsar Cannon (47 min) Huge bronze cannon with intricate details, cast in 1586 & on display at the Moscow Kremlin. Tserkov' Vozneseniya Gospodnya (29 min) White stone church built in a tent-like style in 1532 to commemorate Ivan the Terrible's birth. Armoury Chamber (45 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Peter the Great Statue (48 min) Commemorative statue honoring Tsar Peter the Great & the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy. Dormition Cathedral (44 min) Russian Orthodox cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, dating back to the 14th century with golden domes. Ivan the Great Bell-Tower (47 min) Gleaming onion domes top this whitewashed, octagonal bell tower, the Kremlin's tallest structure. Kuskovo Summer Palace (31 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (46 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. Granovitaya Palata (46 min) The main banquet hall of the Russian tsars is found within this impressive 15th century building. Kolomenskoye (26 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Tsar Bell (46 min) Completed in 1735, this 6-m.-tall cracked bronze bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin. Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (20 min) Huge, lavish 18th-century royal palace with formal gardens, plus museum of fine arts & antiquities. The State Tretyakov Gallery (46 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (45 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. St. Basil's Cathedral (49 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. |