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Armory Chamber - Nowadays the Armory Chamber features ancient state regalia, festive royal garments decorated with silver, gold and precious stones, a collection of arms, jewelry and a collection of royal carriages. More than 4000 of unique specimens of Russian, Western European and Oriental applied art of the V-XX centuries are exhibited in the halls of the Armory Chamber. One of the shop-windows is occupied by the authentic pieces of the world famous Faberge company: watches, cigarette-cases, jewelry, silverware, tea and coffee sets and colored stone miniatures.

Pushkin Fine Arts Museum - Moscow's equivalent to St. Petersburg's enormous Hermitage Museum. It houses an extensive collection of ancient art and artifacts from the Ancient times to the New Age, including Egyptian, Assyrian, Ancient Greek and Roman pieces. The museum was established by the father of the famous Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

Novodevichy Convent - one of the most beautiful Moscow convents, founded at the beginning of 16th century, for 400 years the Novodevichy Convent was the witness and the participant of important historical events, connected with the names of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, Sofia and Peter I.

Museum Panorama of the Borodinskaya Battle -

Moscow Metro - one of the most beautiful underground railway systems in the world. The stations built in the Stalin era are remarkable for their pompous ornamentation and uniques architecture and look more like temples and palaces . Most of them are decorated with sculptures, glass, colored marble and bronze chandeliers.

Moscow Kremlin and Kremlin Cathedrals - the Kremlin has always been perceived as a symbol of power and might of the Russian land. Each era of Russian history lefts it’s architectural mark on the Kremlin; within the Kremlin walls there are many architectural monuments, churches, cathedrals, museums, etc.

Moscow City Tour - main streets, squares and places of interest: the Tverskaya street the most animated and saucy, the former headquarters of the KGB, Russian White House, the Red Square, the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, the Cathderal of Christ the Saviour, the Bolshoy Theatre, etc.

Kolomenskoye - a Great Princes’ mansion in the XIV-XVII centures. It is the unique art, historical, architectural and nature-landscape museum-reserve, situated in the South region of Moscow. Nowadays it is a remarkable place to enjoy Russian folklore performance such as wedding-game, skomorokhs-buffoons and songs.

Historical Museum -

Diamond Fund - the collection of regalia in the Diamond Fund consists of the Great and Small crowns, maces, scepters, the Great Chain with the cross and star of the Order of St Andrew the First-Called and clasps to fasten the coronation mantle. The Great Imperial Crown made in 1762 for the coronation of Catherine the Great by the court jeweler J.Pauzie represents the height of creative imagination, lavish beauty and skilled workmanship. It is adorned with five thousand diamonds arranged in a splendid pattern of laurel wreaths and oak branches.

Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed - commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built on the edge of Red Square between 1555 and 1561. Legend has it that on completion of the church the Tsar ordered the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, to be blinded to prevent him from ever creating anything to rival its beauty again. St. Basil's is a delightful array of swirling colors and redbrick towers. Its design comprises nine individual chapels, each topped with a unique onion dome and each commemorating a victorious assault on the city of Kazan.

Tretyakov State Gallery - one of the world’s largest museums, a treasure house of old Russian art from the XXI century till our days. The gallery bears the name of its founder, Pavel Tretyakov, a rich Russian manufacturer and patron of art. Now the Tretyakov Gallery holds more than 50000 works of painting, graphic art and sculpure.

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