Moscow sights, attractions and museums to visit during your stay

Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow (Red Square)

Saint Basil’s Cathedral tour

This cathedral is arguably the most famous portrayal of Moscow. It is impossible to simply walk past it, and few people decline to take the classic photograph with it in the background. Still, we...

Kolomenskoye Park and Church of the Ascension

Kolomenskoye Village and Park

This park – its history and outskirts – is now part of the city. This remarkable architectural ensemble and the Church of the Ascension (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) carry us back to the...

Novodevichy Convent guided tour

Moscow’s most famous monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is in every guidebook. It is, arguably, the most popular sight in Moscow after the Kremlin and the Moscow Metro. Nonetheless, we...

Konstantin Melnikov's house in Krivoarbatsky Lane

Konstantin Melnikov

The main architect of Soviet avant-garde (mainly Constructivism), Melnikov, gave Moscow and the world several masterpieces that it is still possible to find despite how the city’s space has...

Monomakh's Cap - Kremlin Armoury Chamber guided tour

Ivan IV the Terrible Throne in Armoury Chamber

The Kremlin Armoury Chamber guided tour

A visit to the Kremlin Armoury Chamber can be included in your tour to the Moscow Kremlin. The Armoury Chamber has an extremely extensive collection of househould items and finery...

the Monument to the Conquerors of Space - visible from afar

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) at VDNKh - guided tour in English, French and other languages

Cosmonauts Alley - Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) at VDNKh

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Space Museum) exhibition

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow

This is one of Moscow’s favorite museums for its visitors – both among the younger generation and adults.

Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts in 1912 (before the title's change)

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Tour through one of Moscow's main galleries, rich with European paintings, including an impressive number of works from the collectors of impressionist art Shchukin and Morozov

Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, 1927, architect Konstantin Melnikov

Guided Tour to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

Tolerance Museum tour

Guided Tour to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center This is an important center dedicated to keeping the memory of one of the country's most important problems alive. At the same time, it is a...

Guided tour of the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val - excursion in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German

Bathing of a Red Horse, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1912, the New Tretyakov Gallery exposition

New Tretyakov Gallery

Guided tour of the New Tretyakov Gallery (20th century) on Krymsky Val. This tour is to the branch of the Tretyakov Gallery that has collections of twentieth-century art, starting with avant-garde...

GULAG History Museum in Moscow - guided tour in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese

Gulag History Museum exposition and guided tour

A tour through this museum will help you get an understanding of that frightening phenomenon in Soviet history called the GULAG. Although it is paradoxical, this legacy is still disputed or denied by...

Leo Tolstoy house museum in Khamovniki, guided tour

Leo Tolstoy's writing desk in house museum in Khamovniki

Living room (salon) in house museum in Khamovniki

Leo Tolstoy house museum in Khamovniki

World-famous Leo Tolstoy (quite possibly Russia's most famous writer) lived in Moscow for a lengthy period of time, and wrote some his greatest novels there. A guided tour to his house museum in...

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Sculpture

This is perhaps the most well-known sculpture in the USSR, recently celebrating its 80th anniversary. It is a symbol of the fanfare of socialist labor and of an era long gone. It is one of Moscow’s...

Moscow State University’s main building on Sparrow Hills

Sparrow Hills and its observation platform

This is a classic place to take in a panoramic view of Moscow, both during the day and at night. It is a must-see during our Moscow sightseeing tour.

Arbat street

One of the first pedestrian streets in Moscow, it saw Pushkin, Bunin, and Tolstoy in the flesh. It is the meeting place of all architectural styles in Moscow. And, no less important, there are the...

House on the Embankment

A guided tour to the “Ship Building”, a symbol of prosperity in the 1920’s – and of Stalin’s repressions in the 1930’s.

Ivan the Great Bell Tower (Moscow Kremlin)

Ivan the Great Bell Tower

Many say that it is a pioneer in high-rise construction in Moscow. In this sense, it is the precursor to Stalin’s skyscrapers and the high-rise buildings in Moscow City.

Cathedral of the Assumption of Moscow Kremlin

Cathedral of the Assumption of Moscow Kremlin - private tour in English

Cathedral of the Assumption (Dormition) of Moscow Kremlin

We will definitely visit this, the Kremlin’s main cathedral, during a tour of the Kremlin’s premises.

Ryabushkinsky Mansion in Moscow, designed by Fyodor Schechtel

The central staircase at Ryabushkinsky Mansion

Maxim Gorky House-Museum

Taking a tour of this museum is not as much about the writer Maxim Gorky as it is about the style of Art Nouveau as performed by the leading architect representing this trend in Moscow, Fyodor...

Nadezhda Alliluyeva (Stalin's wife) grave at Novodevichy Cemetery

Nikita Khrushchev grave at Novodevichy Cemetery (monument designed by sculptor Ernst Neizvestny)

Leonid Sobinov grave - monument by Vera Mukhina

Novodevichy Cemetery

This is the most important necropolis for both Moscow and the whole country. We recommend this guided tour to Novodevichy Cemetery to review the lives of the greatest people who have ever lived in...

Komsomolskaya station of Moscow Metro, architect Alexey Shchusev

Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro is a must-see as a unique facility in terms of its complexity – a network of underground palaces that were both “cathedrals” and “train stations” for Soviet residents.

Moscow sights and attractions