Sheremetyevo -
Kuskovo Summer Palace (22 min) Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum. The State Tretyakov Gallery (51 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. Sokolniki Park (43 min) Park created by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who flew falcons here, with wildlife including hares. State Historical Museum (50 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Red Square (53 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. Bolshoi Theatre (56 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. The Moscow Kremlin (48 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Dormition Cathedral (47 min) Russian Orthodox cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, dating back to the 14th century with golden domes. Aleksandrovskiy Sad (49 min) Park with lawns, summer blooms & several monuments including one to Marshal Georgy Zhukov. St. Basil's Cathedral (54 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Kolomenskoye (44 min) Architecture from different eras in an open-air museum on former royal estate, with tours & events. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (53 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. Granovitaya Palata (49 min) The main banquet hall of the Russian tsars is found within this impressive 15th century building. Izmailovo Kremlin (32 min) Cultural center with Russian Revival-style edifices, costumed workers, museums, workshops & markets. Museum of Cosmonautics (38 min) Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age. |