Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in Moscow, Russia

The Narkomfin Building is a block of flats at 25, Novinsky Boulevard, in the Central district of Moscow, Russia. Conceived as a "transitional type of experimental house", it is a renowned example of Constructivist architecture and avant-garde housing design.

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The Monument to Joseph Brodsky was installed in 2011 in Moscow on Novinsky Boulevard near the United States embassy building. The authors of the monument are the sculptor Georgy Frangulyan and the architect Sergey Skuratov.

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The Cherkasskaya-Baskakov City Estate is an architectural monument located in the city of Moscow.

Wikipedia: Городская усадьба Черкасской — Баскакова (RU)

The Greater Church of Christ's Ascension is one of the largest parish churches in downtown Moscow. It is a major landmark of Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street and Nikitskiye Vorota Square. It is named "greater" to prevent confusion with a nearby church of the same name.

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The monument to the writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy is a sculptural monument in Moscow. It is located at the intersection of Bolshaya and Malaya Nikitskaya streets. The authors of the monument are the sculptor G. I. Motovilov and the architect L. M. Polyakov. An object of cultural heritage of Russia of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Памятник Алексею Толстому (Москва) (RU)

The monument to Alexander Blok is a monument to the Russian poet Alexander Blok, the work of sculptor Oleg Komov, installed in 1993 in Moscow, in the square near house 6 on Spiridonovka.

Wikipedia: Памятник Александру Блоку (Москва) (RU)

The Moscow Musical Theater "Amadeus" is an opera house in Moscow. Not having its own stage, it carries out productions at various venues.

Wikipedia: Музыкальный театр «Амадей» (RU), Website

The Gorky Museum is an architectural landmark of the "Moderne" style, the Russian term for Art Nouveau. It was built in Moscow in 1900–02 by the architect Fyodor Schechtel. It is also known as the Ryabouchinsky House, for the young Russian industrialist and art collector who built it. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Ryabouchinsky family emigrated to France. In 1931 the Soviet government offered the house to the writer Maxim Gorky and his family. It was his home until his death in 1936. The widow of Gorky's son continued to live in the house until her death in 1965. It then became the Gorky Museum, dedicated to his life and work. It is located in the historic center of Moscow, at 6 Malaya Nikitskaya. Admission is free.

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Ryabushinsky Mansion is a city estate built by architect Fyodor Schechtel for entrepreneur Stepan Ryabushinsky in 1900-1903. It is one of the most representative examples of early Art Nouveau in Russian architecture. Since 1965, the building has housed the Gorky Museum-Apartment.

Wikipedia: Особняк С. П. Рябушинского (RU)

The monument "Blessed is the Friendship of the Peoples of Russia and Armenia for Centuries" is a monument to the friendship of the Christian peoples of Armenia and Russia. The statue consists of two female figures clinging to each other, and between them there is a cross.

Wikipedia: Благословенна в веках дружба народов России и Армении (RU)

The House-Museum of M. N. Ermolova is a museum in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Дом-музей М. Н. Ермоловой (RU), Website

Timiryazev monument is a monumental sculpture in Moscow of the scientist Kliment Timiryazev. The statue was made by renowned Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov. It was installed in 1923 at the end of Tverskoy Boulevard.

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The State Museum of Oriental Art is one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world for preservation, research, and display of Oriental art. The museum was founded in 1918 as a part of soviet programme to support unique cultures of USSR subdivisions. Since 1970 the museum is located in the centre of Moscow in the historical building known as the Lunins' House, a private residence built in the early 19th century by the famous architect Domenico Gilardi.

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The Near the Stanislavsky House Theater is a Russian theater located next to the Stanislavsky House-Museum. Artistic director — Y. N. Pogrebnichko.

Wikipedia: Около дома Станиславского (RU), Website

The Yermolova Theatre is a theatre company in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. It is under the artistic direction of Vladimir Andreyev.

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The monument to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in Kamergersky Lane was installed in the pedestrian zone near house No 2 Tverskaya Street in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. П. Чехову (Москва) (RU)

The Moscow State Academic Theatre of Operetta, abbr. Titles. The Moscow Operetta or simply Mosoperetta is a musical theater in Moscow, the first state operetta theater in the USSR.

Wikipedia: Государственный академический театр «Московская оперетта» (RU), Website

The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg.

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The Monument to Karl Marx in Moscow is a monument completed in 1961 by Soviet sculptor Lev Kerbel. It is located near the Bolshoi Theatre in Theatre Square.

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The Monument to Vaclav Vorovsky is a monument to one of the first Soviet diplomats, Vaclav Vorovsky. It was installed in 1924 in Moscow on Vorovsky Square. The author of the monument is sculptor Mikhail Katz. The monument has the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance.

Wikipedia: Памятник Воровскому (RU)

The Golitsyn Chambers in Krivokolenny Lane is a two-story building of the XVII century, located in Moscow at the address: Central Administrative District, Krivokolenny Lane, 10, building 1. It is an architectural monument of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Палаты Голицыных в Кривоколенном переулке (RU)

"Lights of Moscow" is a Moscow museum dedicated to the history of lighting fixtures. The museum was opened in 1980 in Armyansky Lane in the building of the Protopopov (Miloslavsky) chambers of the XVII century.

Wikipedia: Огни Москвы (RU), Website

Menshikov Tower, also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthodox Church in Basmanny District of Moscow, within the Boulevard Ring. The church was initially built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Fribourg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl. The earliest extant Petrine Baroque building in Moscow, Menshikov Tower was substantially altered in the 1770s. The church traditionally functioned in summer only; in winter the congregation assembled in nearby Church of Theodor Stratelates, built in 1782–1806. Church of Saint Theodore also provides the bells for ritual ringing: despite its height, Menshikov Tower does not have bells.

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The Griboyedov Monument is a sculptural image of the playwright Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov in Moscow, at the beginning of Chistoprudny Boulevard, not far from the exit of the metro station of the same name.

Wikipedia: Памятник Грибоедову (Москва) (RU)

The Oleg Tabakov Moscow Theater is a theater complex founded in 1987 by People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov. The theater includes two stages on Malaya Sukharevskaya Square and Chaplygin Street, an art and production plant and a theater school. The theater officially opened in 1987.

Wikipedia: Московский театр-студия под руководством Олега Табакова (RU), Website

The Volkov-Yusupov Palaces are a landmark building in the Basmanny district of Moscow, one of the oldest civil buildings in the city. They are located at Bolshoy Kharitonievsky Lane, 21, building 4. They are an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Палаты Волковых — Юсуповых (RU)

The Stakheev House is a city estate in Moscow at 14 Novaya Basmannaya Street, building 1. An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia of federal significance. Currently, the estate houses the Central House for Children of Railway Workers.

Wikipedia: Дом Стахеева (RU), Website

The Epiphany Cathedral at Yelokhovo, Moscow, is the vicarial church of the Moscow Patriarchs. The surviving building was designed and built by Yevgraph Tyurin in 1837–1845.

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The Moscow Children's Variety Theater is a children's theater in Moscow, in the Basmanny district. It was founded in 1989.

Wikipedia: Московский детский театр эстрады (RU), Website

The Moscow Puppet Theater is the first of the currently operating state puppet theaters in Moscow and one of the oldest in Russia. It was founded in 1929 in the State Publishing House system by director Viktor Shvemberger. The theater uses various puppet techniques: from ancient puppets to large-sized frame puppets, conducts musical performances with the participation of a live orchestra. His repertoire also includes "performances with closed eyes", the events of which unfold in complete darkness, and all the action is based on sounds, smells, tactile sensations, which makes the performance accessible to blind people. The theater is the base site of the Moscow International Festival of Puppet Theaters.

Wikipedia: Московский театр кукол (RU), Website