State Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin
The State Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin used to be a deposit of state treasury. The building is an architectural monument of the middle of the XIX century decorated with 58 marble bas-reliefs and portraits of ... ►Continue reading
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The Patriarch’s Palace and the Twelve Apostles’ Church
The Patriarch’s Palace was built in 1653-1655 by Russian craftsmen for Patriarch Nikon. On the palace’s ground floor there were household services, the second floor housed living quarters of the Patriarch. ►Continue reading
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The Annunciation Cathedral
For more than one and a half century the Annunciation Cathedral had been the Moscow Great Princes’ and Tsars’ home church. It was a part of the Great Princes’ palace connected with its ceremonial and living quarters …►Continue reading
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The Ivan the Great Bell-Tower Complex
The Ivan the Great Bell-Tower complex had been formed for two centuries. The Bell-Tower was erected in 1505-1508 by Italian architect Bon Friazin. A century later another one arcade for bells was added to the Bell-…►Continue reading
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The Assumption Cathedral
For six centuries the Assumption Cathedral had been the state and cultural center of Russia: Great Princes were set for reigning and local princes swore fealty, inaugurations of Tsars and coronations of Emperors took … ►Continue reading
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The Archangel’s Cathedral
The history of the Archangel’s Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin dates back to the XIV century: in 1333, the first Great Moscow Prince Ivan Kalita (Money-bag) ordered to lay the foundation of a white-stone church... ►Continue reading |
The Church of Laying Our Lady’s Holy Robe
The Church of Laying Our Lady’s Holy Robe was a home church of Russian Metropolitans and Patriarchs. It was built in 1484-1485 by Pskov’s stone-layers. The name of the church is linked with a Byzantine festival known since .... ►Continue reading
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The History of Moscow Museum
The Museum of History of Moscow is one of the oldest museums of the city. Its collection was based on the exhibits of the pavilion "Moscow" at the All-Russian Artistic and Industrial exhibition, which was held in ... ►Continue reading
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Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has one of the most representative collection in Russia of foreign art dated from ancient times to modern days. The exposition of the Museum includes today a vast collection of tinted …. ►Continue reading
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The Pushkin Memorial Museum
The museum is situated in one of the oldest and most beautiful streets of Moscow Arbat. Earlier, in the XIX century that region of the capital used to be an ristocratic one. ►Continue reading
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The Cinema Museum
The Cinema Museum collects, describes, restores and preserves documents and materials on the history of the Russian and Soviet cinema. The Museum arranges exhibitions on the basis of its fund and collections that ►Continue reading
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Orlov Paleontology Museum of Paleontology Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences)
The Orlov paleantography museum is rightly considered one of the largest natural history museums in the world. The history of the museum, in part, is based on the foundation, in 1716, of Peter the First’s Kunstkammer, in ►Continue reading
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The State Historical Museum
The collections of the Museum were gathered due to the efforts of scientists of all Russia and collectors. There are archeological monuments of all ancient times, collections of coins, manuscripts, old books, pictures, Russian and ►Continue reading
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The State Darwin Museum
The State Darwin Museum was founded in 1907 by Alexander Kots (1880-1964), a professor at the Moscow Higher Women's College. It became the first world's museum of evolution. The basic purpose of the museum .... ►Continue reading
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The State Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is a national art museum. It is one of the most outstanding museums in the World. The Gallery was founded by P.Tretyakov, Moscow merchant and textile manufacturer, and it was named …►Continue reading
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State Polytechnical Museum
The State Polytechnical Museum in Moscow is considered to be one of the oldest museums all over the world. Hard work of many Russian scientists-enlighteners, members of the Imperial Society ►Continue reading
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