Museums
The Kremlin
The Moscow Kremlin is the centre of the Russian State, a former residence of Russian Tsars. The Russian historian Nicolay Karamzin said: “the Kremlin is a place of great historical recollections.” No doubt the Kremlin and Red Square are the most important sights and at the same time symbols of the whole Russia. Since 1992 the Kremlin has been housing the residence of the president of the ...
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The Novodevichy Convent
The convent was founded at the beginning of the 16th century and was originally one of the most important “guards” of Moscow in the south-west. It is a beautiful architectural monument and one of the most famous convents of Russia. It was established by Basil III, the father of Ivan the Terrible, in commemoration of the reconquering of the old Russian town Smolensk by Russia in 1524 after the ...
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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The museum is situated in the premises of the former Museum of Fine Arts in the old Moscow street Volkhonka. The building of the museum was constructed to the design by the architect R.Klain in 1898-1912. The museum is named after the greatest Russian poet and writer Pushkin. The museum constantly increases its collection. The collection of the museum numbers about 5000 paintings, 35000 ...
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The State Armoury Chamber
The State Armoury Chamber is one of the oldest museums in Russia. The building of the Armoury Chamber was constructed in 1851 by the architect K.A.Ton especially to house the museum with its world famous collection of jewels. The first mention of the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin was in 1508. The museum possesses a supremely rich collection of masterpieces of home and foreign...
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The State Tretyakov Gallery
It is a world known museum that stores thousands of works of art from ancient Russian icons to modern paintings. Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov,the founder of the gallery, started to collect the best works by Russian artists in 1856 and continued to do it for 40 years till his death. At the beginning of the 80s of the 19th century he ordered that a building for the art collection should be ...
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