Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #13 in Moscow, Russia

Khitrovo House. A valuable object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Дом Хитрово (RU), Website

The Central Border Museum of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation is a museum in the city of Moscow, structurally part of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia.

Wikipedia: Музей пограничных войск (RU), Website

The Church of Peter and Paul at the Yauza Gate is an Orthodox church in the Tagansky district of Moscow. It is part of the Pokrovsky Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Metochion of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; metochion of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Святых Апостолов Петра и Павла у Яузских ворот (RU)

The Shuisky Palaces are an example of residential development in the White City, an Object of Cultural Heritage of Federal Significance in Moscow. At the end of the XVI century, the property presumably belonged to the Shuiskys - hence their common name, but the so-called "Shuisky court" belonged to Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Baryatinsky.

Wikipedia: Палаты Шуйских (RU)

The Romanov Boyars is a museum of the Moscow boyars of the XVI-XVII centuries, is a branch of the State Historical Museum. The only surviving building of the large estate of the Romanov boyars.

Wikipedia: Палаты Романовых (RU), Website

The Znamensky Monastery in the Old Tsar's Court is a former monastery in Moscow. It was founded in 1629-1631. It was consecrated in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign". After 1923, the monastery was closed. The monastery cathedral has survived to this day. The buildings of the monastery are located at 8-10 Varvarka Street.

Wikipedia: Знаменский монастырь (Москва) (RU)

The Znamensky Cathedral is an Orthodox church in Kitay-Gorod in Moscow, the former cathedral of the Znamensky Monastery. It belongs to the Iveron Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Знаменский собор (Москва) (RU)

The Old English Court is an architectural and historical landmark of Moscow. A monument of civil architecture of the XV-XVII centuries, the residence of the English trading Moscow Company, and during ambassadorial missions - the English Embassy House. It is considered the first official representation of a foreign power to survive in Moscow. The building in which the museum is located was previously part of the Museum Association "Museum of Moscow", since September 2020 it has been an object of the landscape and architectural complex of Zaryadye Park.

Wikipedia: Старый английский двор (RU), Website

The German Bridge is an improvised memorial on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow, which arose at the site of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov and is mainly supported by volunteers.

Wikipedia: Немцов мост (RU)

The Monument to Minin and Pozharsky is a bronze statue designed by Ivan Martos and located on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. The statue commemorates two Russian national heroes Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who in 1612 organized a popular uprising that ultimately led to the end of the Polish occupation of Moscow during Polish intervention in Russia, thus putting an end to the Time of Troubles.

Wikipedia: Monument to Minin and Pozharsky (EN)

The Italian Grotto is a memorial and decorative structure in the Alexander Garden at the foot of the Middle Arsenal Tower of the Moscow Kremlin. The grotto was designed by architect Osip Bove in 1821 to commemorate the Moscow destruction of 1812. The building received its name - "Ruins" - due to the fact that the wreckage of buildings destroyed by French troops was used in its construction.

Wikipedia: Итальянский грот (RU)

The Tsarina's Golden Chamber is the official reception room of the Russian tsarinas, where they held formal celebrations of Russian monarchs' weddings, meetings with Russian and foreign clergy, and receptions for relatives of the imperial family and for ladies of the court. It is part of the tsar's palace in the Moscow Kremlin. Золотая Царицына Палата is also the name of the building that houses the chamber, this time using Палата in the sense of "palace".

Wikipedia: Tsarina's Golden Chamber (EN)

Terem Palace or Teremnoy Palace is a historical building in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia, which used to be the main residence of the Russian czars in the 17th century. Its name is derived from the Greek word τέρεμνον. Currently, the structure is not accessible to the public, as it belongs to the official residence of the President of Russia.

Wikipedia: Terem Palace (EN)

The Monument to Vladimir the Great is a 17.5-metre-high monument to Vladimir the Great, located in Borovitskaya Square in central Moscow. It was designed by the designer Salavat Scherbakov on the initiative of the Russian Military Historical Society and the city government. The opening ceremony was held on 4 November 2016.

Wikipedia: Monument to Vladimir the Great (EN)

The Alexander Shilov Gallery is an art gallery created in 1997 on the basis of the author's works of the People's Artist of the USSR Alexander Shilov. The main exhibition spaces of the gallery are located in a 19th-century mansion at 3 Znamenka Street, built by architect Yevgraf Tyurin. In 2003, the exhibition halls were expanded: restoration was carried out in the neighboring mansion, as a result of which the house acquired Empire features, and a basement complex connecting the two buildings was erected underground. As of 2019, the complex of buildings of the gallery is a single architectural ensemble, which includes 22 halls with paintings and graphic works. The museum's exposition includes more than 1200 works by Alexander Shilov, donated by the artist to Moscow.

Wikipedia: Галерея Александра Шилова (RU), Website

The Church of St. Nicholas in Old Vagankovo is an Orthodox church that was once located in the village of Vagankovo, which became part of Moscow in the XVI century.

Wikipedia: Храм Святителя Николая в Старом Ваганькове (RU), Website

The Stupa of Enlightenment or the Stupa of the Three Jewels, located in the courtyard of the Lopukhins' estate in Moscow, was built in 2008. Before the opening in 2017, the stupa in Otradnoye was the only non-decorative stupa in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Ступа Просветления в усадьбе Лопухиных (RU)

The Lopukhin Estate is a manor complex built at the end of the XVII century by Fyodor Lopukhin on the territory of the White City. In 1775-1776, the mansion was part of the temporary Prechistensky Palace, created to house the imperial court at the time of the celebration of the Kuchuk-Kainarji peace with the Ottoman Empire. At that time, the favorite of Catherine II, Grigory Potemkin, lived in the building. After the October Revolution, the site was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Cheka, and in the 1960s, a branch of the Marx and Engels Museum began to operate on the basis of the estate. At the end of the 20th century, the building was repaired under the leadership of the International Centre of the Roerichs and converted to accommodate the Roerich Museum, which has been a branch of the Museum of Oriental Art since 2016. In 2019, the estate was transferred to the use of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

Wikipedia: Усадьба Лопухиных (RU)

The Gallery of Art of Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries is an art gallery that presents works by Western European and American artists of the XIX-XX centuries, including the collections of impressionists and post-impressionists from the collections of patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. The museum is located in the left wing of the Golitsyn estate in Znamensky Lane, which has been part of the Pushkin Museum (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts) since the early 1980s. The opening of the gallery took place in 2006 as its branch.

Wikipedia: Галерея искусства стран Европы и Америки XIX—XX веков (RU), Website

The Monument to Alexander II, officially called the Monument to Emperor Alexander II, the Liberator Tsar, is a memorial of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, situated in the immediate surroundings of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Completed in 2005 and partly inspired by a destroyed imperial monument from 1898, the statue itself was paid for by private donations, with the rest of the monument mainly financed by public funding. The site for the new monument was chosen in part because Alexander helped lay the foundation for the original Christ the Savior Cathedral and ruled during its construction.

Wikipedia: Monument to Alexander II (Moscow) (EN)

The Golitsyn Estate in Znamensky Lane is an estate complex built in 1759-1766 for Prince Mikhail Golitsyn according to the project of the architect Savva Chevakinsky. From 1775 to 1776, Catherine II lived in the Golitsyns' estate, who came to Moscow to celebrate the conclusion of the Kuchuk-Kainarji peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. Especially for the Empress, a wooden Prechistensky Palace was erected on the territory of the estate, connected to the main building and neighboring estates by long corridors. After the departure of Catherine II to St. Petersburg, the structure was dismantled.

Wikipedia: Усадьба Голицыных в Знаменском переулке (RU), Website

The Vyazemsky-Dolgorukov estate is a former city estate of the Vyazemsky-Dolgorukov princes, built in the 1720s on the basis of stone chambers of the XVII century. After the revolution of 1917, the estate was nationalized, and the Institute of Marxism-Leninism was opened in the main building. In 1925-1926, two wings in the style of classicism were added to the building according to the project of architect Sergei Gruzenberg. From 1962 to 1992, the house housed the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Museum.

Wikipedia: Усадьба Вяземских-Долгоруковых (RU)

A monument to the Soviet writer, public figure, Nobel Prize winner in literature Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov was erected in Moscow on Gogolevsky Boulevard.

Wikipedia: Памятник Шолохову (Москва, Гоголевский бульвар) (RU)

The Chess Museum of the Russian Chess Federation is the world's first chess museum; Its unique collection reflects the history of world and Russian chess culture. The museum's collection includes about 3000 exhibits, including several hundred chess sets, award cups, paintings, graphics, documents, awards and personal belongings of famous Russian and Soviet chess players. The museum is located in the center of Moscow, in the building of the Central House of Chess Players named after M. M. Botvinnik, at Gogolevsky Boulevard, 14. As of 2019, the exposition is open to the public on weekdays, by appointment with the Russian Chess Federation.

Wikipedia: Музей шахмат (RU), Website

The Church of the Resurrection on the Arbat is an Orthodox church in the historical center of Moscow. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese. The temple has a metochion of the Jerusalem Patriarchate in Moscow. Dedicated to the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord.

Wikipedia: Храм Воскресения Словущего на Арбате (RU)

The Burganov House is a Moscow state museum created in 2001, based on the workshop of sculptor Alexander Burganov. It is located at Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane, 15, building 9.

Wikipedia: Дом Бурганова (RU), Website

The Monument to Friedrich Engels was installed in 1976 in Moscow near the metro station "Kropotkinskaya". The authors of the monument are sculptor I. I. Kozlovsky, architects A. A. Zavarzin and A. A. Usachev. The monument has the status of an identified cultural heritage site.

Wikipedia: Monument to Friedrich Engels (EN)

The Anna Golubkina Museum is a museum in memory of the sculptor Anna Golubkina in Moscow. It is located in the former art studios that Golubkina rented from 1910 until her death (1927). The opening of the museum took place seven years later, in 1934, but due to changes in the cultural policy of the USSR, it was closed in 1952. By decree of the city authorities, the museum was reopened in 1972, and in 1986, Anna Golubkina's studio became part of the Tretyakov Gallery.

Wikipedia: Музей-мастерская А. С. Голубкиной (RU)

The mansion of Margarita Morozova is a building, a monument of history and architecture in Moscow. An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Особняк Маргариты Морозовой (RU)

The Monument to Yevgeny Primakov is a monument by sculptor Georgy Frangulyan, dedicated to the Soviet and Russian politician and statesman, economist and orientalist-Arabist Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov. It is installed on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Памятник Евгению Примакову (RU)