Sheremetyevo -
The Moscow Kremlin (23 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Ostankino Television Tower (15 min) Rocket-like TV tower with 45 levels & an open-air observation deck accessible by guided tour only. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (25 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. State Historical Museum (23 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Red Square (20 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. Bolshoi Theatre (19 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (22 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (20 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. The State Tretyakov Gallery (26 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (22 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Museum of Cosmonautics (12 min) Extensive space museum within a titanium monument honoring the launch of Sputnik 1 & the space age. All-Russian Exhibition Center (14 min) High profile exhibition, fair & congress center opened in 1939 with halls for up to 500 people St. Basil's Cathedral (20 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. Armoury Chamber (22 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. Sokolniki Park (14 min) Park created by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who flew falcons here, with wildlife including hares. |