Moscow City Tour
Our city tour provides a good overview of Moscow and lavishly presents its landmarks: Red Square with fairy-tale St. Basil Cathedral and Lenin's tomb, the KGB's headquarters and the Bolshoi Theatre, the White House and the State Duma (government's and parlament's offices), dwellings of ordinary Muscovites and Russian elite, showy Tverskaya Avenue and old city quarters. We make some stops to see the sights closer, visit the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and enjoy a panoramic view of the city
from the Sparrow Hills lookout point.
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upMetro Tour
Started in 1935, today's Moscow metro has the biggest passanger capacity in the world, serving about nine million people daily. Many of its over 180 stations are more like underground palaces as the USSR spared no expense in constructing the subway, which served a splendid showcase for the first communist country's successes and inspired Russians for new heroic deeds for the sake of the future. Each station has its own design and ideological concept, some demonstrate an impressive achievement in engineering of the day.
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Communist Heritage Tour
Comminist era in Russia started in 1917 and lasted over 70 years, having left Moscow with hundreds of monuments. We surely visit Red Square as well as the Lenin's Mausoleum and the Kremlin necropolis. The Novodevichy Cemetery also should not be missed as burial stones of its high-ranked inhabitants (N.Khrushchev, B.Yeltsin etc) vividly reflect metamarphosises of Russian history. The Central Communist Party's Office, the KGB's and the White House, which witnessed the bloody end of the USSR, are all among sights to meet in the tour. We finish at the Fallen Idols Park, where some communist sculptures were brought
to from all over Moscow in the 1990s.
Moscow by Night
Nikolai Gogol, prominent Russian novelist, once compared Moscow with a lady who spends her whole day at home carefully preparing herself for going out at night time. These days when electricity and light designers transform night cities into amazing fairy tales, Gogol's words sound even more true. There is no another time in Moscow life when the city is so charming, mysterious and calm. Traffic gets lighter, people are relaxed and smiley, youngsters hang out in parks and boulevards. Moscow skyscrapers adorn the city's horizon with its beautiful crown spires.
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Jewish Heritage Tour
Moscow has no obviously discernible Jewish district but there is plenty of sites bearing memories of long-existing local community. In present-day Moscow there are some Jewish cultural and religious centers, schools, kindergartens and kosher restaurants. In the Moscow Jewish University students study Jewish languages and history. The community boasts of theatre Shalom, maybe the last Jewish theatre in the world to retain a broad appeal to non-Jewish audiences. Would you believe that 2012 Hanukka was celebrated in a step from Red Square? In our tour we visit the Moscow Choral Synagogue, the Chabad Cultural Centre and the Jewish Museum & Tolerance Centre (or the Holocaust Museum).
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Walks around Moscow
Red Square has always been a place where Russians came to be together in joy and sorrow. Apart from soaking in the atmosphere, there are a number of things to do in and around the square. Visit to the St. Basil's Cathedral helps you learn why Muscovites used to call it the town of churches. Lenin's Mausoleum is another must-see of the tour. The imposing edifice of the 19th century's GUM Department Store reveals a shady promenade and the most delicious ice-cream in the city. Come down to the Alexander Garden to look at beautiful flowerbeds and pay respect to the unknown Soviet soldier buried there by the Kremlin wall. You may also take into consideration visiting the Russian History Museum in
the north of the square. If you wish to visit the Kremlin pls check Kremlin & Armoury Chamber.
This walk is the best way to get in touch with what is a must of Moscow. After strolling along Tverskaya street, main city avenue, and visiting splendid Eliseev Grocery Store, we come down to Red Square and its striking sights St. Basil Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum and the GUM Department Store. Then we visit the Alexander Garden, laid out by the Kremlin wall, and the Eternal Flame memorial over the Grave of the Unknown Soldier. Moving toward the Russian State Library we stop at Volkhonka Street to get into the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
This route gives an excellent introduction to the city life if you love exploring on foot. Alonside with such historical monuments like the KGB's edifice, the Assembly of the Nobles, the Bolshoi Theatre and Karl Marx's monument you will see the biggest kids store in the world and the most luxurious shopping areas of Moscow, the huge Polytechnic Museum and bustling central streets. You may combine with walk with visiting either the GULAG history museum or Red Square.
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The tour opens up a very special world of Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Exploring boulevards, squares and lanes of the historical centre of Moscow, we may see the environs where Russian writers lived and worked as well as some settings of their novels and poems. Even if the names of Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Michail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Marina Tsvetaeva don't ring any bells, you will be enchanted with the atmosphere of old good Moscow. The tour icludes a visit to the Maxim Gorky House-Museum.
Its present name came to Red Square only in the 18th century as before it was the Market Place crowded with street traders and customers. We will visit St. Basil's Cathedral (the Intercession Cathedral) and will plunge into the Kitai Gorod district, the ancient settlement of Russian and foreign traders and diplomats. We will walk along Varvarka (St. Barbara Str.) and enter the Romanovs boyars Chambers where you will learn about lifestyle and traditions in Medieval Russia.
Boat Ride
Navigation on the Moscow River opens at the end of April and closes at the beginning of October. As the river served the most ancient transport route of the city, many of historical sights are to be found along its banks. Boats usually start from the dock in the west of Moscow and travel through the center towards the Novospassky Monastery in the east. One way ride takes 1.5 hours. In winter you may admire snowy city from the deck of ice-breaking cruise ships docked by the Ukraine Royal Radisson Hotel; these cruises are available all year around. Radisson boat cruise takes 2 hours, drinks and dinner are available on board. Preliminary reservation is recommended.
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