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Moscow, capital of Russia, is one of the most strange, miraculous and beautiful cities in the world. It has a European character nicely mixed together with unforgettable features of old Russian city, keeps traces of all major events of Russian history and leaves no one indifferent. 

	A Kemlin view from the Moskva river

Dear traveler, on this page you'll find all info you need to plan a programme of your staying in Moscow depending upon how much time you have and what are your wishes and priorities. The list and pictures below will tell you about main sights in Moscow and around, they are numerated in special order - on decrease of importance. If you don't plan to hire a guide or if you do, in any case this list will help you to orientate yourself among numerous Moscow attractions. Wish you to have a great holiday in Moscow and feel free to contact us if you need an accomodation in Moscow  or want to have a guide or to reserve opera, ballet or any other tickets, advice of a music concert, exhibition, restaurant, club, help with train tickets, transport and also if you just need details, advice or information, beacause it is this web for - to help you feel better in Moscow.

St.Bathil's Cathedral

• the Kremlin park territory,
• all main cathedrals (4 of them) - where Russian Tsars used to held wedding, coronation and funeral ceremonies, in one of them there's Russian Tsars' Necropol, 
• the Armory Chamber (inside the Kremlin) - greatest collection of Tsars' treasures - clothing, jewelry, crowns, thrones, horse harness, tableware, Ambassadors' gifts
• Diamond Fund (inside the Kremlin) - the unique State collection of jewelry, 
• the Red Square, 
• the Manez Square,
• the Alexander Garden
• the Theater Square 

2  Car city tour (takes about 4-6 hours)

• all Center - the Kremlin Panorama,
• Cathedral of Christ the Savior,
• New Maiden (Novodevitchy) Convent (kind of prison for women from aristocratic families in old Russia)

  The Kremlin Panorama

• Gorky Park, 
• Moscow University, Vorobjevy Hills (great panorama view over all Moscow)
• Poklonnaya Gora (bloody fountains and the greatest II World War monument), 
• the White House,
• old Arbat street (best place in Moscow for buying gifts),

3 The Tretjakov Art Gallery. Great collection of paintings  - from ancient Russian icons to paintings  of the 20th century. Takes about 2.5 - 3.5 hours. Day off - Monday.

4 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Masterpieces of the West European Artists. Takes 2.5-3.5 hours. Day off - Monday.

	Kolomenskoe estate

5 Kolomenskoe - old Russian Tsar's residence where a huge w ooden palace (the 8th world miracle) used to stay. Now there's an amazing architectural complex, collection of the old wooden architectural construction, the oldest oaks (400-600 years old) and a beautiful park on the bank of the Moskva river (no days off).

6 Tsaritsino  - this estate is a witness of old and sad love story of one of the most interesting and capricious figure in Russian history  - Catherine the Great (the II), huge half ruined palace, lovely park, lots of interesting architectural details of the landscape (no days off).

The_Moscow_University

7 Kuskovo - on of the brightest samples of traditional Russian aristoctatic countryside estate of the end of 18th century - beautifully planned park making a nice ansamble to the palace and lake. Belonged to Count Sheremetjev. Days off are Monday and Tuesday.

5+6+7  Old Moscow estates' car tour + walk (5-6 hours). There's also a hoice of walk tours to the same estates. Having a car it is possible to combine all of them within one day, but if you don't want to be in a hurry you may relax in one of these beautiful places. Walk around any of them takes about 3.5-4 hours.

8 Moscow Archeological museum. A unique underground museum, part of excavations on the Manez square in the very center of the city. Has cearmics and other finds of material culture of Moscowites from 15-19th centuries. Days off - Monday and the last Friday of every month. Tour takes 1-1.5 hours.

9 Vladimir, Suzdal, Bogolubovo - car tour, takes all day (about 12 hours). Another possibility (best use out of public transport schedule) is a weekend tour : leaving Moscow 6 p.m. on Friday, 1st night in Vladimir, 2nd night in Suzdal, back to Moscow by 6 p.m. on Sunday. So, Vladimir (founded on 1108) is about 165 km from Moscow (2.5 hours drive), famous with one of the most beautiful cathedrales in Russia - Assumption Cathedral (1470), stone carved St.Dmitry Cathedrale and triumphal arch 'Golden Gate'. Suzdal (35 km from Vladimir) is really a gem of this tour and a real pearl among all towns in Central Russia. Being under UNESCO protection, this town managed to preserve a unique architecture and lifestyle of old Russian town. Still it is forbidden to build civil constructions higher than 4th floor building. Interesting landscape, unique number and beauty of cathedrales, churches, convents and monasteries, old Kremlin... Just my bit of advice to definitely see this place.  Bogolubovo is a small village not far from Suzdal famous with 18th century monastery and 1866 Assumption Cathedral. See more information about Suzdal and  Vladimir on the home pages of these towns. The whole car tour around Vladimir, Suzdal and Bogolubovo for 10-12 hours for 1-2 people is 150 USD. 

	New Maidens Convent

10  New Maidens (Novodevitchy) Convent & Cemetry. Walk tour takes 3-5 hours. Convent itself was founded in 1524. Starting from Sofja, Peter The Great' sister, who was imprisoned here by her brother in 1689, this convent became a prison for many Russian women from aristocratic families. Near the convent there's a cemetry, which is the most prestigious resting place in Moscow after the Kremlin wall. Here are tombs of Nikita Khruchev, Fyodor Shalapin, Sergey Prokofjev, Nikolay Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Isaak Levitan, Dmitry Shostakovitch and others.

Sergiev Posad

11 Sergiev Posad town situated around the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra), one of the Russia's most interesting and important religious centers. 60 km from Moscow. Tour takes about 6-8 hours by public transport and  3-5 hours with a car. If you take a car it is possible to unite in one day tour also Abramtsevo estate, which was founded in 1840 by famous Russian novelist Sergey Aksakov. See here Sergiev Posad home page for detailed info about the town and monastery.

12 village 'Fedoskino', center of Russian folk art lacquer miniature painting on papier mache boxes. Car tour takes 4 hours, tour on  public transport - 6-7 hours. Days off - Saturday, Sunday.

13 car tour 'Jasnaya Poljana (Bright Glade) and Tula town'. Jasnaja Poljana is an estate (~200 km south from Moscow) where the gerat Russian writer Count Lev Tolstoy was born, spent much of his life time and is buried. Days off - Monday and Tuesday and the last Wednesday of the month. Tula is a small town 170 km south from Moscow, famous first of all with its samovars production. Main attractions are the old Kremlin (1514), wearpons and samovars museums. See Tula's home page for information. Car tour takes all day, about 12 hours,  ~2.5 hours drive one way. 

14  New Jerusalem monastery, created by patriarch Nicon in 1656 as a little Holy City. The most interesting monastery around Moscow. Has a unique underground church. Near is a Wooden Architecture open air Museum. Tour takes 6-8 hours by public transport and 3-5 hours with a car. 50 km from Moscow.

15 Arkhangelskoe estate, one of the grandest estates of the region, late 18th century. Belonged to Golitsyn's and Usupov's families. Has great palace and beautifully planned park on the hill and a lake nearby. Car tour would take 3-5 hours, making this tour on a public transport takes 5-7 hours. 15 km from Moscow.

16  Borodino village (Military Historical Museum Preserve) where historical battle between Russians and French Napoleon troops happened in 1812. Museums, monuments, maps, battle models... Day odd - Monday and the last Friday of the month. To see the place using public transport will take about 8 hours (2.5 hours train trip one way), car drive takes 1.5 hours one way. 

17 Peredelkino village, famous with numerous countryside villas of Russian writers. Half day block -  30 minutes one way train trip. 

15 + 16 + 17 As Arkhangelskoe, Borodino and Peredelkino are all to the west not far from Moscow it is possible to unite these 3 places in a  grand one day car tour (impossible to do the same on public transport), it would take about 12 hours among which you would have about 2.5 hours to walk around each spot.

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