زيارة المعالم
Moscow City Tour
The City Tour around Moscow includes visiting Red Square, Novodevichiy Convent, The Vorobievy Gory (Hills), Poklonnaya Gora (Mountain), The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and much more. You will see and learn what Moscow started with and what it looks like today. The route goes across the Centre and major Moscow highways – Leninsky and Kutuzovsky Avenues, Noviy Arbat and Boulevard Ring. Old districts and modern ones, historical and modern monuments, "official" buildings and Muscovites’ favorite places - all this creates a unique image of the capital of Russia.
The tour lasts about 3 hours.
Night City Tour
The Evening City Tour includes visiting St. Basil’s Cathedral, Novodevichiy Convent, The Vorobievy Gory (Hills), Poklonnaya Gora (Mountain), The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Noviy Arbat, Tverskoj boulevard, Teatralnaya Square and much more.
The tour lasts about 3 hours.
The Moscow Metro
The underground stations will tell you a lot about the history of the USSR and modern Russia. Just look around and you'll see them – different epochs and styles, all that makes old and new lines differ – from the old, luxurious and pompous, "palaces" made of marble and granite attracting your attention in the centre of the city to the small and plain-looking exit-entrance units with stylish and original interiors, scattered in the suburbs. The Moscow Metro has been changing together with the whole country and the city, undergoing changes in names, in design and construction, shedding and picking up features of the time. So with this in view it can be called an authentic museum of history while it remains the city main means of transport. The tour lasts 2 hours.
The Moscow Kremlin
The territory and the Cathedral Square.
You’ll walk around the Cathedral square and visit several cathedrals.The Assumption Cathedral was the main cathedral of the Moscow mother country. It was built in 1479 by Italian architect Aristotle Fiorovante. Traditionaly wedding and coronation ceremonies were held there, also there were buried Russian metropolitans and patriarchies.
The Annunciation Cathedral was built in 1484-1489 by masters from Pskov as a private church of the royal family, where the sacraments of marriage and baptism were performed. An ancient iconostasis is of great value. It was made by the outstanding Russian painters Andrey Rublev and Theophanes The Greek. Church of the Deposition of the Virgin’s Robe was built by craftsmen from Pskov in 1484-1486. It was the home church of metropolitans and patriarchies. The small and comfortable church has preserved iconostasis of the 17th century. The tour lasts 1.5 hours.
The Armory Chamber
The Armory Chamber is a part of the Great Kremlin Palace Complex. Precious objects which had been kept in the Tsar's treasury and the Patriarch's vestry for centuries, make the basis of the museum collection. Among them there are things made in the Kremlin workshops as well as the ones received as gifts from many foreign States' embassies.
In the museum you will see ancient State regalia, ceremonial objects, Russian Tsars' ceremonial clothes and coronation dresses, chasubles of the Orthodox Church Hierarchs, gold and silver articles made by Russian, European and Eastern craftsmen, items of Russian weapon crafts, carriages, horse ceremonial harness.
The exhibits of the glorified museum are notable for their precious textiles and ornaments, the highest art level of workmanship and finish, as well as their particular value in the history of Russian Statehood and culture. The tour lasts 1 hour.
Art Galleries
The Tretyakov picture gallery
The Tretyakov Picture Gallery collection totals over 100, 000 pieces and is subdivided into a number of historical sections: the art of Ancient Russia of the XI-XVII century - icons, sculptures, small casts, applied art; paintings and graphics of the XVIII - early XX centuries; sculptures and a vast section of post-Revolution paintings, sculptures and graphic art pieces are situated on Crymsky Val. The collection of pre-Mongolian Orthodox icons including the glorified Virgin of Vladimir is the most valuable part of the Ancient Russian collection. Among the masterpieces are creations by Andrey Rublev, the icons by Dionisiy, the creations by unknown masters. The gallery exhibits the paintings by the most famous Russian artists of the XVIII-XX centuries - Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Kiprensky, Brullov, Tropinin, Venetsianov, Fedotov, Surikov, Repin, Kramskoy, Savrasov, Shishkin, Vereschagin, Vasnetsov, Vrubel and many others. Here you will find the notorious " Black Square" by Malevitch which, as many believe, is the end of Russian painting history. Even if you are inclined to agree with this disputable statement, the exposition of the Тretyakov Gallery will never fail to convince you that this history is great and beautiful. The tour lasts about 1,5 hours.
The State A.S.Pushkin museum of fine Arts
Moscow Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the second-largest, after the St.-Petersburg Hermitage, collection of foreign arts in Russia. The people enlighteners, Moscow professors, wanted everyone in the city to be able to see the great creations of the previous centuries' masters, at least in replicas and casts. High quality copies were specially made in Europe for big sums of money, and then transported to Moscow. Simultaneously the vast building of the future Museum was being erected – a palace with a colonnade whose magnificent halls were capable to house bulky exhibits - frieze fragments, gates, horse statues, the originals of which decorated the cities and museums of Europe. From a storage place for replicas and copies the Palace in Volkhonka Street quickly developed into a museum of originals. The Egyptologist V.S. Golenischev’s collection which gathered monuments of Ancient Egypt, antique vases and coins and Western Europe masters’ paintings made part and parcel of the museum.The tour lasts about 1,5 hours.
Moscow Cathedrals
St. Basil's cathedral
With its ground-plan in the form of an eight-pointed star, its nine churches and its bizarre domes, its vivid colors and its heterogeneous assortment of architectural elements, the church was originally built by Ivan the Terrible in 1555-61. It was called the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin (Pokrovsky Sobor) to commemorate the capture of Kazan, capital of the khanate of Kazan, on the festival of the Intercession of the Virgin in 1552. According to the chronicler, the architects of the cathedral, Postnik and Barma, were sent by God to Ivan the Terrible. There is a story that Ivan had them blinded after the building was completed; however, this is no more than a legend, for in 1588 - four years after Ivan's death - Postnik and Barma added the chapel at the northeast corner of the cathedral housing the tomb of the holy fool Basil (Vasily) by whose name the cathedral is now known. The tour lasts about 1.5 hours.
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
No matter which direction you take when walking around the centre of Moscow, now and again against the sky between buildings you can see the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour with its golden domes. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the largest cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, it accommodates up to10 thousand believers. Revived within an unheard of short period of time, it has become an adornment of the capital, and today it is to be inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. Amazing in its magnificence and grandeur, the Cathedral has become a sacred site for both Muscovites and visitors, for representatives of the Orthodox and other religions.The tour lasts about 1,5 hours.
Novodevichiy Convent
The Novodevichy Convent has been beautifying Moscow for more than 400 years. It was founded in 1524 by Prince Vassily III, father of Ivan The Terrible, in commemoration of the recovering of the old Russian city, Smolensk, after the Lithuanian invasion.Over all these years, the nunnery was often the venue of many dramatic historic events. Its walls remember Boris Godounov's acceptance of the Russian crown. From here started the expulsion of Polish invaders in 1612. Also here, Peter the Great's half-sister, Sofia, was forced to take the veil. During the Big Fire of 1812, the main cathedral of nunnery, Smolensky, miraculously survived.The architectural ensemble of the nunnery was completed at the end of the 17th century and to this day remains among the finest in Russia. Since 1994, in the summer, there are religious services in the cathedral. On the nunnery's grounds there are graves of the tsars' relatives, members of boyar families, participants of the Napoleonic War of 1812 and of writers and historians. Women should cover their heads when they enter the cathedral.
The tour lasts about 2 hours.
