Metro Stations
Ploshchad Ilyicha Metro Station: Deep Hall and Lime Line Transfer
A deep pylon tri-vault station of 1979 on the yellow line under Ilyich Square, with transfers to Rimskaya on the lime line…
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Metro Stations
Serpukhovskaya Metro Station: Three-Vault Hall and Ring Line Link
A deep three-vault station of 1983 on the light gray line, with grey and white vaults, marble details and a passage to…
Metro Stations
Botanichesky Sad Metro Station: Flower Panels, Garden Walk and MCC
A shallow Orange Line station of 1978 with white marble columns, an aluminum cell ceiling and backlit metal panels of stylized flowers,…
Metro Stations
Delovoy Tsentr Metro Station: Moscow City Interchange, Lines and Exits
The main Metro hub of the Moscow City skyscraper district, a high-tech glass-and-steel station of 2005 with transfers to deep stations on…
Metro Stations
Krasnye Vorota Metro Station: Fomin’s Hall and Shell Pavilion
One of the first ten Moscow Metro stations, opened in 1935 with pylons faced in dark red marble, milk-white globe lamps and…
Metro Stations
Teatralnaya Metro Station: Porcelain Medallions and Transfers
A 1938 pylon station on the green line beside the Bolshoi Theatre, opened as Ploshchad Sverdlova, with porcelain medallions along the vault…
Architecture
Melnikov House Moscow: Tours, Hexagon Windows and How to Book
The avant-garde home Konstantin Melnikov built for himself in 1927 to 1929 from two interlocking cylinders with hexagonal windows, now a museum…
Architecture
Pashkov House Moscow: Bazhenov’s Hilltop Mansion and How to See It
A white neoclassical mansion on Vagankovo Hill facing the Kremlin, built in 1784 to 1786 for Pyotr Pashkov and now part of…
Sightseeing
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building Moscow: Seven Sisters Guide
One of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers of Moscow, a 32-level apartment tower finished in 1952 at the meeting of the Moskva and…
Churches
Great Ascension Church Moscow: Pushkin’s Wedding Church and Tips
A large yellow neoclassical parish church at Nikitsky Gate, started in the 1790s for Prince Potemkin, and the church where Alexander Pushkin…
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Arbat Architecture and Literature Walking Tour
Explore Moscow's Arbat district on a walking tour connecting neoclassical architecture, Russian music, Asian art, theatre, experimental design and Pushkin's former home.
Bulgakov’s Moscow: From Patriarch’s Ponds to Theatre Square
A literary walk from the Bulgakov Museum and Patriarch's Ponds past the church where Pushkin married to the Maly Theatre and Theatre…
Along the Moskva: From Patriarshy Bridge to Neskuchny Garden
A riverside walk from the pedestrian Patriarshy Bridge past the Muzeon sculpture park and Krymsky Bridge to Gorky Park and the quiet…
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