Travel to Russia

Klub Viking (Viking Club)

At the Viking Club, kids can enjoy five hours of dance and entertainment with professional jugglers, magicians and clowns who arrange competitions and quizzes every half an hour. One chocolate cocktail or cake is included in the ticket price while the rest of the dishes are paid for separately. The menu is fairly traditional and tasty, featuring dishes with funky names such as Little Red Cap. The admission is free for adults (well it is a place for kids) and children under 14 can go for 280R ($10).

Faceted Palace (Granovitaya Palata)

This Kremlin building is Moscow's oldest secular structure. It is also the only surviving part of the palace complex of Ivan III. Architects Marco Ruffo and Pietro Antonio Solari definitely drew on the palazzi architecture of northern Italy for inspiration when building the palace between 1487 and 1491. The faceted limestone blocks and regularly spaced rectangular windows on the main facade conjure up images of renaissance buildings in Italy. As always russian architecture can blow your mind away and this is certanly not and exception.

Schatz I

The gallery sells paintings by museum-grade artists such as Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Leonard Turzhanskii, Pyotr Petrovich and others. They all worked between 1900 and 1940, often referred to as a golden age in Russian art. The gallery's team of qualified art-historians can carry out appraisals of works by Russian artists. Schatz I also arranges exhibitions of works from private collections and expends great efforts in retrieving Russian works which for one reason or another currently lie beyond the borders of Russia.

Art of Gardens exhibition

The Art of Gardens exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts looks particularly interesting in the light of the current popularity of metropolitan landscaping. The exposition consists of 16th-19th century engravings which reflect the history of landscaping development in different parts of the world. Of particular interest are the engravings of the parks in classic and antique styles that were very popular in France during the reign of Louis XIV.

Russian State Library (Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka)

Still world wide known under its formerly Soviet name the Lenin Library, founded at the end of the 18th century from the collection of the Rumiantsev public museum. It houses a fine selection of antique manuscripts and books including one of the earliest Russian examples of the handwritten book, the 'Gospel of the Archangel'. It holds more than 42 million items in 247 languages, in size second only to the US Library of Congress. The library is open to everyone above 18 years of age, though you will need to apply for a pass, for which you will need a passport and evidence of visa registration.

Victory Park (Park Pobedy)

Moscow almost surrender to the Nazi war machine, and Russia as a whole suffered immeasurably during World War II, known to Russians as the 'Great Fatherland War'. This park is an ample demonstration of the place of those events in the national consciousness here. There are plenty of fountains, a memorial church and a tall angel-crowned obelisk by controversial city-sponsored artist Tsereteli. In the western section of the park you will find the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War. A fine educational attraction that you can't pass by.

Alexandrovskii Gardens

The Alexandrovskii Gardens were developed between 1820 and 1823 and run along the west wall of the Kremlin. The gardens occupy an area of about 10 hectares. In his attempt to make the gardens as distinctive as possible Bove combined an orderly plan with the free arrangement of trees plus elements of romantic-style gardens. The gardens are bordered by decorative iron railings. Muscovites and foreign tourists often come to the gardens to visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.Admission will not cost you a thing and it's quiet peacefull. I garantee you will enjoy it, that's of course if you like green spaces.

Novodevichy Cemetery

The Novodevichy Cemetery is probably he most famous cemetery in Moscow, located next to the Novodevichy Convent. This cemetery was inaugurated in 1898, and is the eternal resting place of some very notable Russians, like Anton Chekhov and Nikita Khrushchev, who's grave was designed by the same sculptor he denounced for promoting "degenerate art", Ernst Neizvestny.

Kazan Cathedral

Kazan Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox church, on the Red Square in Moscow. The current building is a reconstruction of the original one, destroyed under the order of Joseph Stalin in 1936. The original construction was built as a shrine in the early 1630s, and after it was destroyed by fire in 1632, the Tsar ordered to replace it by a brick church, in 1636. Its reconstruction took place after the fall of the Soviet Union, from 1990 to 1993.

Kolomenskoye

Kolomenskoye is the former Russian imperial estate, now a very popular weekend destination for the Moscow population. Many churches and other buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries are present, like the Church of the Ascension is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.