Moscow
MOSCOW INTRODUCTION
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It was founded around 1100 and was capital of the Russian Empire from 1480 to 1705, until Peter the Great relocated the court to St. Petersburg. Moscow once again became one of the most important and...
THE WONDERS OF LOCAL CUISINE
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There are many different appetizers. The most well-known is of course the famous Russian salad, here called Olivier salad, made with boiled vegetables and dressed with a generous helping of...
KREMLIN
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Did you know that the Moscow Kremlin is not the only Kremlin in Russia; "kremlin" is a generic term for a fortress, but the one you are about to visit is by far the most famous in the...
RED SQUARE
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You should know that the name "red square" does not come from the fact that the buildings around it are mostly red, or from the connection between the color red and the communist ideology,...
SAINT BASIL'S
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A masterpiece of Russian art, the colorful cathedral is like no other in the world. It is actually a complex of nine churches and the highest tower reaches 46 meters high.
The cathedral's architects...
PUSHKIN MUSEUM
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By the mid-nineteenth century, many intellectuals had already begun to insist that a museum dedicated to fine arts be created, but it was thanks to Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, professor at the...
CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR
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However, the building you see before you was actually built in 2000, a reconstructed copy of the original church that was blown up on December 5, 1931 by Stalin, who in its place wanted to build a...
TRETYAKOV GALLERY
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You should know that this museum was founded thanks to the backing of the Muscovite financier Pavel Tretyakov, an important collector of Russian art who supported many artists of his time. In 1892,...
METRO
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It has been running since 1935, when the first 11-kilometer-long line connecting 13 stations was opened. Today, its routes stretch over 300 kilometers with 200 stations, and it is still expanding....
NOVODEVICHY CONVENT
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The following year, the Tsar had the precious icon "Our Lady of Smolensk" transferred here from the Kremlin to be kept in the main church of the monastery, the Cathedral of Our Lady of...
VDNKh
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When it was established, VDNKh was supposed to represent the country's agricultural achievements, but from 1954, when it underwent a significant expansion, its focus shifted to showing the world...
KOLOMENSKOYE
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Founded in 1237, the village became famous in 1532 when the Church of the Ascension, designed by Italian architect Pietro Annibale, was built to celebrate the birth of Ivan IV, the future tsar of...
GORKY PARK
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This picturesque park, located in front of the Moskva River, was opened in 1928 and designed by Konstantin Melnikov, one of the leading architects of the time.
This park’s full name is Maxim...
BOLSHOI THEATER
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The theatre was inaugurated in 1825 but had to be rebuilt almost entirely in 1853 by the Italian architect Alberto Cavos after it was severely damaged by a fire. The result is the splendid...
TSARITSYNO PARK
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In 1775, the empress fell in love with this green space and, after buying it, commissioned the architect Vasily Bazhenov to build her a palace. We don't know exactly what went wrong, but the fact is...
OSTANKINO TOWER
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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union wanted to build something taller than the Empire State Building in New York, and so this futuristic reinforced concrete structure measuring 540 meters was...
