After a major reconstruction in 2011, Gorky Park became the most popular place to go for a stroll in Moscow. There's a plethora of cafes, restaurants and activities. Free Wi-Fi is available.
More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, Russia's space industry has re-emerged as leader of the global space programme and the renovated Moscow Planetarium show us why.
Winzavod means Wine Factory, which is exactly what it used to be in it's heydays. Now turned into a neighbourhood of galleries, contemporary art houses and concept stores.
MAMM's current position as one of the city’s most respected and popular art spaces is the result of years of careful operation and ambitious, long-running and perfectly balanced exhibitions.
The Bolshoi, which has been regarded as one of Moscow’s main sights, was opened on Tsar Alexander II’s coronation day (1856). Make sure to book tickets for the Main Stage in advance on official site.
Monet, Matisse, Korovin, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Vuillard, Aivazovsky, Repin, Cezanne, Manet, Rousseau, Pissarro. Just go.
Russian art gallery. Surikov, Levitsky, Semiradsky, Kramskoy, Makovsky, Moller, Levitan, Serebryakova, Ryabushkin, Serov, Vasnetsov, Savrasov, Sapunov, ceramics by Vrubel, and early Russian icons.
First private gallery in Moscow devoted exclusively to fine art photography. It specializes in 20th century soviet photography, photo-journalism, fashion and works by Russian contemporary artists.
The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory was founded in 1866 by Nikolay Rubinstein, a brilliant pianist and conductor. The Great Hall today is one of the famous concert venues in the world.
One of the newly born theatres of Moscow, opened in 1993. Today the Fomenko Theatre is an experimental venue of intensive creative research drawing inspiration from Russian classics.
Sovremennik (means «Contemporary») was founded in 1956 by a group of young soul-mate actors. Loved by muscovites, it was also the first foreign theatre to win an American Drama Desk Award.
Tourists come to the cathedral for its impressive architecture and design, as well as for it's equally impressive (and strange) history. There's a nice pedestrian bridge at the back of the building.
Surrounded by modern restaurants like Uilliam's, «I Love Cake» and Pavilion, Patriarch Ponds area is also one of the main settings of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
Perhaps the cosiest park in the city centre. This oldest botanical garden was created in 1706 according to decree of Peter I and was used for cultivation of medicinal herbs.
Besides the great view it's a meeting point for motorcycle clubs and street racers. There's a walkway down to the Moskva River only a few hundred meters away to the right.
Sunset is a perfect time to take in the great views of the Kremlin, GUM and Saint Basil's Cathedral, as the last rays of the sun cast reflections over this legendary area.
As the city's oldest and most exclusive bathhouse, the 19th-century Sanduny Banya has rejuvenated everyone from dramatist Anton Chehkov to billionaire tycoon Roman Abramovich in it's time.
It's a captivating two-hour cruise on the Moskva River aboard a modern 50-metre yacht. Two promenade decks offer panoramic visibility of Moscow and large restaurant and bar available on board.
Constructed in 1956 as a Soviet army command centre and nuclear bomb shelter, the location of this top-secret bunker was only revealed in 2006 when it became a museum. Book tickets in advance via web.
The famous Russian writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky jokingly called this venue «the temple of gluttony». Just enter the store and you will find yourself shopping in a museum.
Opened in 1953, this place shows us how every grocery store in Moscow might have looked like today if the Soviet Union still existed.
Looking for soviet spies? That's the right building for that. FSB is the main domestic security agency of Russia and the main successor of the Soviet Committee of State Security (KGB).
Ostozhenka always listed in top 10 most expensive streets in the world. Gorgeous Art Nouveau buildings show how Moscow would've looked like if the Soviet Era never started in Russia.
The Bulgakov Museum is set in his old Moscow apartment where he lived from 1921 until 1924, and where parts of his great novel, The Master and Margarita were set.
The venue has been here for more than 20 years, and it is also the site of a former pre-revolutionary tavern. There are regular poetry readings and sometimes actors from nearby theatres drop by.
The group of friends operate this Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, where about 40 games click, whirr, whistle, flash and beep to the delight of visitors from around the world.
Founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova, who is also an Art.sy investor, Garage today is much more than just a gallery space. It's a compulsory destination for Russia’s growing art community.
