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Kremlin Moscow
229 Reviews The Moscow Kremlin (Russian: Моско́вский Кремль, read Moskovskiy Kreml) or simply the Kremlin is a...
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Hermitage Saint Petersburg
241 Reviews The Hermitage Museum (Winter Palace) is a major highlight of any visit to St Petersburg. We visited as part of our coach tour to Russia and must say we were amazed by the beauty and extravagence of...
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Mamayev Kurgan Volgograd
15 Reviews Visiting the WWII memorial complex is a must in Volgograd. The complex is called To the Heroes of the Stalingrad Battle and it is well-known all over FSU countries as Mamayev Kurgan. It attracts lots...
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Red Square Moscow
121 Reviews Main square is always good position to start explore the city. The Red Square (Russian: Красная площадь) is famous...
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Cathedrals and Churches Saint Petersburg
258 Reviews Our visit was included in an afternoon tour of the city including the Peter & Paul Cathedral. Walking towards the cathedral it did not strike me as "anything special", however upon entry the "WOW"...
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The Panorama and Mill Volgograd
7 Reviews Beside the Stalingrad museum in Volgograd is a red brick building full of bullet holes. This is the only (to my knowledge) remaining building from the former Stalingrad. Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov is...
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KGB Headquarters Lubyanka Moscow
29 Reviews Lubyanka Square in downtown Moscow is the site of the site of the Lubyanka head-quarters of the KGB. The center of the square was dominated centre by a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the...
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St.Peter and St.Paul's Fortress Saint Petersburg
105 Reviews This photo was taken whilst on a evening cruise along the Neva River and canals. A good method of obtaining an uninterupted view of many of the important buildings, palaces a historical points of St...
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Red Square - Saint Basil Cathedral Moscow
64 Reviews The famous Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed (Russian: Собор Василия...
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Rivers and Canals Saint Petersburg
75 Reviews These people looked like they were enjoying being riverside early evening. From our river cruise it looked cool and 30 minutes later we were forced to go inside due to the chill. I guess summer...
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Vorobievy Hills Moscow
41 Reviews Sparrow Hills (Russian: Воробьёвы го́ры, read: Vorobyovy Gory) is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River. My...
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Palaces Saint Petersburg
97 Reviews Again, another fantastic huge room beautifully decorated. Something you would rarely see in modern day buildings. Everywhere I looked there was something special in this room. To think that we only...
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Tverskaya Street Moscow
34 Reviews Tverskaya Street is probably one of the busiest streets in Moscow. It begins from Red Square north to Leningrad Prospect. Where we stayed, hotel Marriot Moscow Grand is located on this busy road. From...
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Theaters and Concert Halls Saint Petersburg
61 Reviews We had the choice of 2 theatre performances, The Cossack Dancers or the Russian Ballet. I chose the Cossack Dancers to my wife's disappointment, but after seeing this wonderful performance she was...
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VDNKh Exhibition Moscow
36 Reviews At first this statue became for an exhibition in Paris.1937 . The idea to crown the Soviet pavilion of the World Parisian exhibition of pavilion monument « Worker and Farmer», executed of metal,...
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Other Attractions Saint Petersburg
91 Reviews Not many foreigners know that the most Northern location of Egyptian sphinxes is in St. Petersburg. Russian government have bought a few sphinxes from Egypt in 1820 and brought them to decorate shore...
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Arbat Street Moscow
39 Reviews I like fountain and sculpture and try to learn more of it. This is what I found out about this golden-like sculpture and fountain: It named Princess Turandot Fountain. Princess Turandot Fountain is...
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Nevsky Avenue Saint Petersburg
73 Reviews This building bears a blue and white stencilled warning which reads: ‘Citizens: during artillery bombing this side of the street is most dangerous.’ There are similar plaques around the city, like one...
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Bolshoi Theatre Moscow
42 Reviews Siempre hay que dejar algo para "el próximo viaje " y nosotros con gran pena tuvimos que dejar la visita del Teatro Bolshoi para la próxima vez, pues estaba en obras de reconstrucción Afortunadamente...
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Museums Saint Petersburg
150 Reviews The first state museum of the history of religion and atheism was founded by the Soviet government in 1932 and was typical educational institution for the antireligious, anticlerical and atheistic...
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Metro Moscow
57 Reviews The Moscow metro is apparently twice as busy as the London and New York undergrounds combined. The average number of people using the Moscow metro is 6.6 million, daily. There are 186 stations through...
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Monuments Saint Petersburg
87 Reviews Moscow’s Triumphal Gate or “Moskovskiye Triumfalniye Vorota” was built in 1838 according to project of famous Russian architect Vasiliy Petrovich Stasov. It took place during the rule of the Emperor...
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Red Square - Lenin Mausoleum Moscow
40 Reviews Lenin is considered to be the father of the revolution. When he died in 1924 a wooden mausoleum was erected. In 1929 to accomplished everlasting home for his body a permanent mausoleum designed by...
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St.Isaac's Cathedral Saint Petersburg
55 Reviews El interior de la catedral es espléndido , sus paredes y suelos están revestidos de mármoles rusos , italianos y franceses , de 14 colores y de 43 tipos de piedras y minerales semipreciosos , el...
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Gorky Park Moscow
18 Reviews Gorky Park was name after Maxim Gorky, an author, the founder of Soviet Realism which was the officially approved type of art in the Soviet Union for approximately sixty years) and political...
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In 17th centery were 400 churches in Moscow. In 1917 this were open 764 orthodox churches.Only 155 left in 1990.Today in Moscow are open 645 orthodox churches. One of them is The Church of Saint Gregory of Neocaesarea in Polyanka.Originally built in 1445, present-day building completed in 1679. This Church was closed in 1939 and reopened in 1992.
I always remember taking part in bread and salt welcoming ceremony that is an old tradition to greet dear guests with bread and salt. The bread and salt has long been a traditional Russian and Slavic ceremony of welcome.In Russian churches and homes there is a good custom: to greet the visiting bishop or a guest at the steps of the church/house when he arrives for a visit with bread and salt.The guest is presented with a big loaf of bread, called karavay in Russian, placed on an embroidered towel. A salt holder is securely placed on top of the bread. The arriving guest is supposed to help himself/herself to some bread dipped into salt. He or she might pronounce a traditional Russian greeting "Khleb da sol!" ("Bread and salt!"). It is uttered by an arriving guest in Russia as an expression of good wish towards the host's household.
My travels to St. Petersburg:I first went to St. Petersburg with my grandparents when I was about 10, and later on a winter school trip. My last - to date - trip to St. Petersburg has been for business, in winter 2009.What to do in St. Petersburg:At least half a day in the Hermitage museum - one of Europe's treasure houses. The Cathedral of the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul - the first Orthodox church of the city and the burial place for Russian tsars. Pushkin museum and a walk along many canals. Excursions to suburban palaces of Russia's rulers - Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum and several others. Alexandro-Nevskaya Lavra - the city's largest monastery (be sure to follow the dress code, especially if you are a woman!). A boat trip along the canals - if possible during the white nights month of June. In the evening, unless its company is on tour, a performance at the Mariinsky...
When the communists took over power in Russia, they sent the Tsar family first to Tobolsk, and later to Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg.After the murder of Nikolai II and his whole family (by direct order of Lenin), the Bolsheviks destroyed Ipatiev House, where today stands the Temple on Blood.The night from the 16th to the 17th July 1918, the communists murdered the whole Royal family in a gold mine in Ganina Yama, at 15 kilometres distance from Yekaterinburg, burned their corpses with petrol and then destroyed them with sulphuric acid. In that place there is today a lovely monastery called Holy Royal Martyrs, with seven churches erected without using nails (unfortunately I only had one day time to spend in Yekaterinburg and could only manage to visit Ipatiev House, and did not go to that monastery, but the visit is very advisable).
Yekaterinburg is kind of a border town between Europe and Asia. The borderline is just a few km west from the city in the Ural mountains. The city is generally known for two reasons: as the place where the Romanov family was killed in 1918 and as the birthplace of Boris Yeltzin. Main sights are the new built churches dedicated to the Romanovs. Found the best Italian food in Russia here!!!Difference to Moscow time: +2
Of course Moscow is the top "must see" in Russia!!! When I visited Moscow in 1992 the city was still without many cars. Wonderful churches, big museums and the beautiful metro are highlights of this city.
A tour to the cities of the Golden Ring brings you to the most beautiful cities in Russia: Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Ples, Suzdal are only a few of them. This cities got their wealth from international trading already in the late Medieval times.
Baikal is easily the largest lake in Eurasia and the deepest lake in the world (1,620 metres). It's nearly four hundred miles (636 km) long and almost fifty miles (80 km) wide.The lake is renowned as one of the earth's most impressive natural wonders.Baikal is situated in a region of surpassing beauty, its forested shores surmounted by the jagged, snow-clad peaks of the Barguzin mountains. The lake region is home to an enormous variety of plants and animals, most of which (like nerpas, the lake's freshwater seals, and its trademark delicacy, the omul salmon) are found nowhere else in the world. Bears, elk, lynx, and sables abound in the surrounding forests.
A kremlin is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. Everyone knows Moscow Kremlin, but Russia has 24 Extant Kremlins, 10 more are in ruins, 8 more - unwalled, and we have only traces of 27 Kremlins.List of Russian cities and towns with kremlins:World Heritage Sites: Moscow Kremlin Novgorod Kremlin (with the first stone cathedral of Russia - the Sofia Cathedral)Kazan Kremlin Suzdal Kremlin Solovetsky Monastery Extant: Astrakhan Kremlin Kolomna Kremlin Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin Pskov Kremlin Rostov Veliky Kremlin Smolensk Kremlin Tobolsk Kremlin (the sole stone kremlin in Siberia) Tula Kremlin Zaraysk Kremlin Troitse Sergiyeva Lavra (Monastery) Ivangorod Fortress Oreshek Staraya Ladoga Alexandrov Kremlin Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery Korela Fortress New Jerusalem Monastery Izborsk Kremlin
List of the Buildings in the Kremlin:The Church of Our Lady’s Nativity The Assumption Cathedral The Church of Laying Our Lady's Holy Robe The Annunciation Cathedral The Faceted Chamber The Archangel's Cathedral The Ivan the Great Bell-Tower complex The Golden Tsarina's Chamber The Terem Palace The Upper Saviour’s Cathedral and Terem Churches The Patriarch’s Palace and the Twelve Apostles’ Church The Fun Palace The Arsenal The Senate The Grand Kremlin Palace The Armoury Chamber The A.R.C.E.C. Kremlin Military School The State Kremlin PalaceFor detail info see our Moscow page.
Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow Moscow
5 Reviews and 126 Opinions The Radisson Royal Hotel is a 5-star hotel. There isn't much walking distance to the hotel and it is...
Hotel Astoria Saint Petersburg
11 Reviews and 185 Opinions Five star accommodation caters to the foreign visitor. For regular tourist it also has some...
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