Moscow sights, attractions and museums to visit during your stay

Guided tour to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Mikhail Vrubel hall in the State Tretyakov Gallery

Vasily Surikov - Boyaryna Morozova (1887), exposed in State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Ilya Repin - Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1885)

Tretyakov Gallery guided tour

A tour with an expert guide from the IdeaGuide team to Moscow’s main museum with Russian paintings, the State Tretyakov Gallery, is a mandatory item on the program if you desire to become familiar...

Cathedral of Christ the Savior before its demolition in 1931

Cathedral of Christ the Savior

This cathedral is famous for the tragic fate that befell it as well as its metamorphosis: it was built through an agonizing process on money collected from common citizens, and was blown up during...

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Moscow

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Moscow’s main Catholic cathedral, built by its Polish community at the start of the 20th century.

Zaryadye Park

Today, this is a new park in the very center of Moscow, which opened up only in 2017. From a floating bridge, stunning panoramic views open up on the riverbanks. The park connects Red Square...

Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy's Moscow is a well-established concept in Russian culture. Luckily, his legacy persists, and not only on paper - you can explore it first-hand.

This famous tomb on Red Square is Lenin's burial vault, and a sarcophagus with his embalmed body has been put on display. It is open to visit free of charge from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays,...

Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky

Red Square

This is the most important square not only in Moscow, but in the whole country. It is the main sight of Russia, its calling card, a central symbolic and somewhat mystical place, whose turns...

Maxim Gorky

Yet another writer who is a symbol, the main writer of his time whose name Moscow’s main street bears, became a hostage of the system. He spent his last years virtually under unofficial house arrest...

High Monastery of Saint Peter (Vysokopetrovsky) in Moscow, guided tour

High Monastery of Saint Peter (Vysokopetrovsky)

For some unknown reason, the monastery does not get coverage in the popular guidebooks, which has its pluses – in this unique and bona fide historical location you will not see numerous tour groups.

Bunker 42 (the Cold War Museum)

This Bunker is from the middle of the last century. In our subjective opinion, in many ways "Disneyland" is not with the most interesting excursion in terms of content. This does not change its...

the Palace of the Soviets project by Boris Iofan

the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow (project)

Boris Iofan

Boris Iofan, bringing ideas from his studies in Rome for Communism’s grandiose projects, never managed to see his project realized in the place occupied by the demolished Cathedral of Christ the...

Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square designed by Alexei Shchusev

Lubyanka Building (former NKVD and KGB, nowday - FSB), rebuilt by Alexei Shchusev

Moskva Hotel by Alexei Shchusev (before reconstruction)

Alexey Shchusev

An architect with an incredible destiny, he started with religious architecture (the Intercession Cathedral of the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent), shortly thereafter designed the “atheistic” Lenin’s...

“Sky” series of mosaics in Mayakovskaya Station, Alexei Dushkin

Mayakovskaya station of Moscow Metro, deisgned by Alexei Dushkin

Alexey Dushkin

The creator of the most well-known Moscow metro stations in terms of their beauty and architectural design solutions.

Moscow Yaroslavskaya railway station, 1902, designed by Fyodor Schechtel, Moscow

Levinson printhouse, Fyodor Schechtel, Moscow

Fyodor Schechtel

Russia’s most famous Art Nouveau architect.

the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, historical building

Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theater remains a legend to this day. In addition to ballet and opera, it is now possible to visit its backstage as part of a special tour inside the Bolshoi Theater.

GUM, Main Department Store on Red Square of Moscow

GUM - Main Department Store

GUM – the classic mall for souvenirs, a cup of coffee with a view on Red Square, and simply a landmark building for Moscow. We suggest visiting it during a sightseeing tour, or after a visit to the...

Stalin’s Skyscrapers - Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building

Stalin’s Skyscrapers - Moscow State University (Lomonosov) main Building

Moscow State University (Lomonosov) main Building construction

Stalin’s Skyscrapers (Seven Sisters) in Moscow

The renowned “Seven Sisters” defined the look of modern Moscow, outliving their creator. Their tale can be heard during sightseeing and themed guided tours around Moscow.

Monument to victims of Stalinist repression in Muzeon Park in Moscow

Monument to victims of Stalinist repression in Muzeon Park in Moscow, Stalin's sculpture

Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky (the Iron Felix) - famous statue of Dzerzhinsky in Muzeon Park

Muzeon (park of arts)

A park with a symbolic graveyard of Soviet-era monuments that were gathered together there after the fall of the USSR. The park today is a work of art, and one of the most popular places in the...

Izmaylovo flea and crafts Market in Moscow

Izmaylovo Market

This is the best place in Moscow to buy souvenirs and authentic Russian folk handicrafts from far-away regions. There is an extensive choice, and people do haggle. This is unequivocally a better...

The Friendship of Nations fountain in VDNKh - guided tour

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Sculpture designed by Vera Mukhina in 1937

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics - guided tour

VDNKh – Back in USSR

This is a tour to the Park of the Soviet Dream – a springboard of pride in front of the entire world, whose entrance is symbolically graced by the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture that won the...

Moscow sights and attractions