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Kuskovo Estate Moscow: Palace, French Park and Ceramics Museum
The Sheremetev family's 18th-century summer estate in east Moscow, with a salmon-pink wooden palace, Moscow's only French park, pavilions and a ceramics…
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Tsar Cannon Moscow: The Kremlin’s Giant Bronze Bombard Explained
A bronze giant cast in 1586 with an 890-millimeter caliber, the largest in the world, on a decorative carriage on Ivanovskaya Square.…
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Tsar Bell Moscow: World’s Largest Bell and Its Cracked Story
The world's largest bell, cast in 1733–1735 and about 202 tons, cracked in the fire of 1737 and never rung. It stands…
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Cathedral of the Annunciation Moscow: Rublev Icons and Golden Domes
The Kremlin's smaller cathedral with nine golden domes, built in 1484–1489 as the private chapel of Moscow's grand princes and tsars. Its…
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Cathedral of the Archangel Moscow: Tombs of Tsars in the Kremlin
The Kremlin's royal necropolis, built in 1505–1508 by an Italian architect, with 46 tombs of Moscow princes and tsars including Ivan Kalita…
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Assumption Cathedral Moscow: Coronation Church of the Kremlin
The main cathedral of the Kremlin, built in 1475–79 by an Italian architect and used for coronations of Russian rulers until 1896.…
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Cathedral Square Moscow: Kremlin Cathedrals, Tickets and Route
The central square of the Kremlin, ringed by white-stone cathedrals with golden domes, where Russia's tsars were crowned and buried. A single…
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Ivan the Great Bell Tower Moscow: Climb, Views and Kremlin Tickets
The tallest structure in the Kremlin, built in 1505–1508 and raised to about 81 meters in 1600. A timed climb of 137…
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Stone Flower Fountain Moscow: Smalt, Gold and a Fairy-Tale Story
A 1954 fountain at VDNKh shaped like a gem flower from Pavel Bazhov's tale, decorated with smalt and gold leaf and ringed…
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Friendship of Nations Fountain Moscow: Golden Statues Guide
The largest fountain at VDNKh, built in 1954, with sixteen gilded statues of women in national costumes around a golden sheaf. It…
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