Best places: Historical landmarks in Moscow, Russia

Imposing arch with bas relief carvings & a huge gilded statue celebrating collective farm workers.

Monument honoring the unnamed dead & missing soldiers of WWII, featuring a constant burning flame.

Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera.

Erected in 1995, this equestrian statue depicts a Soviet military leader crucial to WWII victory.

Bronze statue of 12th-century prince & city founder Yuri Dolgorukiy on horseback, unveiled in 1954.

Huge, opulent 18th-century palace, home to a museum with painting, sculpture & decorative arts.

👍👍 A capella festival

1 of Stalin's 7 high-rises, this landmark residential building features classic empire architecture.

Iconic monument of Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet & author, inscribed with one of his verses.

Titanium statue of Yuri Gagarin atop a giant column, with a model of the Vostok spacecraft.

👍👍 A great place for memories, the best in Moscow, warmly spacious, beautiful, convenient, metro right on the square. top class

Grand country estate with a majestic 18th-c. palace, landscaped gardens & a ceramics museum.

👍👍 Nice place to spend evening In the 18th century, the Russian nobility came to regard the Arbat as the most prestigious living area in Moscow. Almost completely destroyed by the great fire of 1812 associated with Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, the street required rebuilding. In the 19th and early 2...

Built in 1491, this historic 10-story clock tower at the Kremlin overlooks Red Square.

👍👍 A monument to our soldiers and officers who died 135 years ago during the heroic siege of the Bulgarian city of Plevna, occupied by the Turkish army. The famous chapel, popularly called simply - a monument to the heroes of Plevna. In Moscow, the monument was erected in 1887 and restored in 2022.

👍👍 The Milovid Pavilion was built in 1803-1804. presumably based on the design of the architect Ivan Egotov, a student of Vasily Bazhenov. The pavilion stands in a picturesque part of the Tsaritsyno park, offering a magnificent view of the Upper Tsaritsyno pond with an artificial island. After reconstr...

👍👍 Very beautiful outside. They didn’t get inside, they arrived late (they let you in until 15.30)

Unveiled in 2007, this bronze statue is a monument to Soviet writer Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov.

👍👍 Temiryazov's monument, beauty

👍👍 The most amazing exhibit of the museum exhibition is an icon depicting St. Trinity. When Tsarevich Peter was born, his father, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, ordered an icon painter to depict the angel of the Tsarevich, the Apostle Peter and St. Trinity. Peter the Great himself did not part with this ico...