Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #16 in Moscow, Russia

The State Biological Museum named after K. A. Timiryazev in Moscow is a natural science museum founded on April 24, 1922. Since 1934, the museum has been located within the walls of an architectural monument of federal significance - a complex of buildings of the former Museum of Russian Antiquities of Pyotr Ivanovich Shchukin, built in the Russian style in 1892-1915 in the possession of Shchukin at Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, 15, bldg. 1, 2, 3, 7.

Wikipedia: Биологический музей имени К. А. Тимирязева (RU), Website

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary is a neo-Gothic Catholic church at Moscow's center, that serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Moscow. Located in the Central Administrative Okrug, it is one of three Catholic churches in Moscow and the largest in Russia.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Moscow) (EN), Website

The Gorbunov Mansion is a house in Moscow at 17 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, bldg. 1. An object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Особняк Горбуновых (Москва) (RU)

The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) in Moscow, Russia, is a museum, exhibition and research organization which primarily aims its efforts at the development of Contemporary Russian Art within the context of the global art process.

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The Church of the Holy Martyrs Sophia and Tatiana at the Filatov Children's Clinical Hospital No 13 is an Orthodox church in the Presnensky district of Moscow. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Святых Мучениц Софии и Татианы (RU)

The monument to Ivan Andreevich Krylov in Moscow was erected near the Patriarch's Ponds in Yermolaevsky Lane.

Wikipedia: Памятник И. А. Крылову (Москва) (RU)

Praktika is a Moscow theater created as an experimental center for new drama in 2005 on the initiative of director Eduard Boyakov.

Wikipedia: Практика (театр) (RU), Website

Schechtel's mansion in Yermolaevsky Lane is a building erected at the intersection of Trekhprudny and Yermolaevsky lanes by Fyodor Schechtel in 1896 for his family. Architect Vladimir Adamovich also took part in the construction. Since 1944, the house has been under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, since the 50s the estate has served as the residence of the ambassadors of Uruguay.

Wikipedia: Особняк Шехтеля в Ермолаевском переулке (RU)

The MOST Theater is a state budgetary institution of culture in the city of Moscow. It was created on the basis of the Student Theater of Moscow State University in 1999 by a decree of the Moscow Government at the request of the All-Russian Theater Society, in fact, it began to work in June 2000.

Wikipedia: МОСТ (театр) (RU), Website

The Bulgakov Museum in Moscow is a writer's house museum which commemorates the life and work of author Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov in an apartment where he lived in Moscow, Russia, and in which he set portions of his novel The Master and Margarita. Graffiti, including text from the novel and drawings of its characters, have decorated the external walls and stairwells of the apartment building since the beginning of perestroika. It is located about two blocks from Patriarch Ponds, the scene of the opening chapter of the novel, where the Moscow city government had planned to erect statues commemorating the novel. It is close to Mayakovskaya metro station

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The monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky was erected in 1958 in Moscow on Mayakovsky Square. The authors of the monument are sculptor Alexander Kibalnikov and architect Dmitry Chechulin. The sculpture is a monument of monumental art of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Памятник Маяковскому (Москва) (RU)

Lenkom Theatre, formerly known as Lenin’s Komsomol Moscow Theatre or Moscow Leninist Komsomol Theatre is the official name of what was once known as the Moscow State Theatre named after Komsomol, a Communist youth league set up by Vladimir Lenin.

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The Children's Musical Theater of the Young Actor (DMTYUA) is a Russian state theater founded in 1988 by the Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Fedorov.

Wikipedia: Детский музыкальный театр юного актёра (RU), Website

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki is an Orthodox church in the Tverskoy district of Moscow. He belongs to the Iveron Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Успения Пресвятой Богородицы в Путинках (RU), Website

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

Wikipedia: Victor Hugo (EN)