Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in Moscow, Russia

The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord on Chistom Vrazhka is an Orthodox church in Moscow, belonging to the Central Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is located at 8 First Truzhenikov Lane.

Wikipedia: Храм Воздвижения Креста Господня на Чистом Вражке (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 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 Okhotnikov City Estate, the Stepanov City Estate is an estate in Moscow at 32/1 Prechistenka Street. An object of cultural heritage of federal significance. The estate complex includes the main house, facing Prechistenka Street, a fragment of the original manor fence and a closed unfenced courtyard, along the perimeter of which there are two wings and two service buildings that are unique in their architecture on the scale of Moscow. The estate is best known for the fact that before the revolution it housed the Polivanovskaya gymnasium.

Wikipedia: Усадьба Охотниковых (RU)

The Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center is an educational institution in Moscow, including an opera house. It is located in a specially built building on Ostozhenka Street.

Wikipedia: Центр оперного пения Галины Вишневской (RU), Website

The State Museum of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is the State Literary Museum dedicated to the memory of the writer Leo Tolstoy. Founded in 1911 by members of Tolstoy Society. Since 1920, the museum has been located in the former mansion of the Lopukhin-Stanitskaya mansion, built in 1817-1822 in the Empire style by architect Athanasy Grigoryev.

Wikipedia: Государственный музей Л. Н. Толстого (RU)

The White Chambers on Prechistenka Street are an architectural monument of the XVII century and a museum in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Белые палаты на Пречистенке (RU)

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 Church of Elijah the Prophet is a parish Orthodox church in honor of the Prophet Elijah in Moscow, located at 6 2nd Obydensky Lane. It was built in 1702-1706 (?) on Ostozhye, near Chertolye.

Wikipedia: Храм Илии Пророка Обыденного (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 Church of St. Nikola on Bersenevka is a Edinoverie Orthodox church in the Yakimanka district of Moscow. It belongs to the Moskvoretsky Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is the architectural ensemble with chambers of Averky Kirillov.

Wikipedia: Храм Николая Чудотворца на Берсеневке (RU)

The Moscow State Variety Theater is a Moscow theater founded in 1954. Since 1961, it has been located in the Government House at 20/2 Bersenevskaya Embankment. The auditorium is designed for 1300 people. It hosted performances by pop artists, performances of both the theater itself and other troupes. Closed in 2020 for repairs, the theater is scheduled to open in 2022.

Wikipedia: Московский театр эстрады (RU)

The House on the Embankment Museum is a Russian museum institution dedicated to the building of the same name. Department of the Museum of the History of the Gulag.

Wikipedia: Музей «Дом на набережной» (RU)

Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices is a group of bronze sculptures created by Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin. The sculptures are located in a park in Bolotnaya Square, Balchug, 2,000 feet south of the Moscow Kremlin behind the British Ambassador's residence.

Wikipedia: Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices (EN)

The Monument to Repin is a monument to Ilya Efimovich Repin on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. It is located near the embankment of the same name and the Luzhkov Bridge; the nearest metro station is Tretyakovskaya.

Wikipedia: Памятник Репину (Москва) (RU)

"Tree of Love" is a sculptural composition in the form of a tree, specially designed for newlyweds or just people in love to hang locks on it, symbolizing the strength of relationships.

Wikipedia: Дерево любви (RU)

The Resurrection Church in Kadashi Sloboda is a major Naryshkin Baroque church in Moscow, formerly the tallest building in Zamoskvorechye. It may still be seen from Red Square.

Wikipedia: Kadashi Church (EN), Website