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Leo Tolstoy Estate Museum Moscow: Tolstoy’s Winter Home and Hours
The wooden Khamovniki estate where Leo Tolstoy spent nineteen winters from 1882 to 1901 is now a branch of the Tolstoy State…
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Sergey Yesenin Museum Moscow: Poet’s Home, Hours and Tips
A small memorial museum in the house where the poet Sergey Yesenin lived and was registered from 1911 to 1918, in Zamoskvorechye,…
Museums
Moscow Museum of Archaeology: Underground Bridge, Hours, Tips
The Moscow Museum of Archaeology is a small underground museum beneath Manezhnaya Square with the foundations of the Resurrection Bridge over the…
Museums
Museum of Russian Icons Moscow: Free Entry, Hours and Collection
A private museum of Byzantine and Old Russian icons on Goncharnaya Street in the Taganka area, with free admission and excursions, in…
Museums
State Museum of Decorative Arts Moscow: Folk Art, Hours and Tips
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, often called the State Museum of Decorative Arts, is in a historic mansion…
Museums
State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia Moscow: Hours
The museum on Tverskaya Street occupies the former English Club mansion with stone lions at the gate and covers Russian history from…
Landmarks
Moscow Cathedral Mosque: Visiting, History and Etiquette
The Moscow Cathedral Mosque is the city's main mosque, rebuilt on a 1904 site and reopened in 2015 for up to 10,000…
Landmarks
Novodevichy Cemetery Moscow: Famous Graves, Hours and Tips
Novodevichy Cemetery is Moscow's best-known burial ground, laid out in 1898 beside the convent walls, with graves of Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Khrushchev…
Churches
Marfo-Mariinsky Convent Moscow: Shchusev Cathedral, Hours and Tours
The Marfo-Mariinsky Convent was founded in 1909 by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna on Bolshaya Ordynka, with Alexey Shchusev's white Intercession Cathedral, a…
Churches
Danilov Monastery Moscow: Bells, Hours and Visitor Rules
Danilov Monastery is traditionally regarded as Moscow's oldest monastery and is today the Patriarch's residence: the bells that came back from Harvard,…
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