What to see in Moscow, if little time: a brief guide to interesting places
Sitihaker A Life / / December 19, 2019
Sometimes people come to Moscow for a short time: come to the conference, business meeting, or waiting for the flight to another destination in the world. When time is limited, difficult to choose what to spend it. In this selection advise, where to walk, what to see and what to eat institutions.
Parks and nature
The best places for spending time in the air: it concentrated various activities, and in some areas growing exotic plants.
1. Gorky Park and the Boring garden
Address: Krymsky Val Street, 9.
Gorky Park is probably the most comfortable in the center of Moscow. Here you can ride on roller skates and bicycles in the flow of people to participate in activities or just lie on padded stools in the shade of trees. View of the Moscow River with the Frunze Embankment, dozens of catering establishments, a children's area with fountains and a rope ladders, exhibitions, concert halls and theater - and all this on a fairly large area, which will not closely.
If you go deep into the side of Lenin Avenue, you can go to Neskuchniy garden - park with the forest thicket and stone bridges.
2. Park "charges"
Address: Street Barbarian, 6, building 1.
It is the youngest major Moscow park, which opened in late 2017. Bypass "charge" can be less than an hour. Inside is not much interesting: a small gastrorynok, several areas with shows and rides like a cave of ice, and of the bridge over the Moscow River. But in the "charge" can be viewed on the young birch in the center of Moscow and photographed against the backdrop of spectacular views of the capital.
3. Botanical Garden
Address: Botanical street, 4.
Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences named after N. IN. Tsitsin - the largest in Europe. 360 hectares of land are growing thousands of species of exotic plants, but come here, as a rule, not scholars, and ordinary citizens and tourists. Botanical Garden RAS ideal for single hiking and biking. And if you like to learn nameplate plant species, visit the "Apothecary Garden" MSU.
4. Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"
Address: Street Dolsky, 1.
The palace and park ensemble was built more under Catherine II - at the end of the XVIII century. A special place in the "Tsaritsyno" takes architecture. Buildings Museum-Reserve are the main examples of the so-called Russian Gothic. The architectural ensemble includes palaces, bread house, Cavalry Building, gates and bridges.
Admire the buildings of two centuries ago and a walk through the quiet alleys of lime - a great plan if you do not like the noisy city parks and you are willing to walk a few hours.
5. Museum-Reserve "Kolomenskoye"
Address: Andropov Avenue, 39.
Another Park Estate, which will have to visit to get away from the city center. "Kolomenskoye" like, first of all, fans of ancient Russian culture. The buildings here are made of wood. The most interesting - the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, which hosts exhibitions, peasant house, showing the life of the common man, and working blacksmith shop, where master-classes.
Also in the "Kolomenskoye" you can walk along the embankment of the Moskva River and enjoy all the benefits of a modern city park: it holds the largest music festivals and work shops with food.
Classic museums and galleries
Go to such places is not boring, especially if you are never in them were not.
1. Tretyakov Gallery
Address: Lavroushinsky lane, 10.
One of the main galleries of the country presents the work of Russian artists of XII-XX centuries. This is where you can see the original paintings that are familiar to anyone with a childhood, "Morning in a Pine Forest" Shishkin's "Heroes" Vasnetsov, "Unknown" Archeology and "The Rooks Have Arrived" Savrasov. All in the Tretyakov Gallery exhibits more than 7000 works, so a visit to the museum requires a lot of time. For a couple of hours to examine everything does not work, but this is not mandatory. Visit here for sure worth it.
2. Pushkin Museum
Address: Volkhonka street, 12.
Not all know, but the Pushkin Museum on Volkhonka was not about Pushkin. Rather, it is about the history of art from ancient Egyptian state culture to the art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance figures. The museum exhibits more than 7000, but exhibited only the most interesting, among which we can find as unique artifacts and copies. If you happen to be in Moscow at the weekend, it is better to choose something else: in the Pushkin Museum in long lines these days.
3. Moscow Kremlin Museums
Address: Kremlin.
The complex of the Kremlin museums includes seven sites, most of which are churches. Of particular interest to tourists is usually the Armory and located in her exhibition "Diamond Round". The Armory can be found on the armor and weapons of Russian and European masters. Here it is, for example, mail Peter Shuisky and ceremonial weapons Mikhail and Alexey Romanov. And in the "Diamond Round" you can see jewelry XVIII-XX centuries, such as the crown and orb of Catherine II.
4. Moscow planetarium
Address: Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, 5, building 1.
People come here not only Russian tourists and Muscovites, for which see the stars in principle uncommon. Visit the planetarium and foreigners, the reason for that - the largest dome in Europe with a diameter of 25 meters. Area under the dome is called the great starry hall. There usually show two short films per session.
Also working at the planetarium exhibition "Uranium" with a great layout of the solar system and a collection of meteorites and "Lunarium" interactive robotic arm and the largest in Russia, the Foucault pendulum. In good weather you can enjoy the outdoor observatory and watch the stars in the dome screen.
5. Bulgakov Museum in Moscow
Address: Bolshaya Sadovaya, 10.
This museum is also called bad apartment, as well as a location of "The Master and Margarita"Which was held in part the great ball of Satan. The museum is a courtyard entrance and the apartment house where he once lived Bulgakov. At the entrance guests are greeted by sculptures Koroviev and cat Behemoth, continued exposure to the entrance are painted based on the book. In the same apartment at number 50 recreated wardrobe, kitchen, living room and a study author.
This is one of the most atmospheric and chamber of Moscow museums. Fans of "The Master and Margarita" definitely recommend to place him on the list to visit one of the first points.
Unusual museums and museums of contemporary art
If classical art and biographies of the writers you are not very interested, you can find something interesting.
1. Museum of the History of the Gulag
Address: 1st Gravity Lane, 9, building 1.
Gulag - a heavy, but at the same time fascinating for their brutality of the history of our country. This museum contains photographs and documents, thematic sculptures and art, journalism and posters 1930-1960's, as well as the prison everyday objects. Here unvarnished talk about the fate of the repressed, show how they lived, and cause terrible figures of Stalin's victims.
2. Darwin Museum
Address: Vavilov Street, 57.
One of Europe's largest zoological museum that illustrates the life of our planet from the Big Bang until the present diversity of terrestrial fauna. On 5000 square meters unfolded expositions devoted to the life and the life of people and the evolution of living beings. Museum impresses with its diversity: There are more than 400 000 exhibits. If you decide to look here, be prepared to spend a few hours.
3. new Tretyakov Gallery
Address: Krymsky Val street, 10.
The new branch of the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition focused artists of the XX century. If you are interested in the work of Soviet artists such as suprematists and abstract, the exposure is likely to be presented here. Also in this branch exhibitions and installations of contemporary art from around the world. The program is best read before the visit to the capital.
4. Museum of Contemporary Art "Garage"
Address: Krymsky Val Street, 9, the structure 32.
Another museum in Krymsky Val, it seems, who denies all the trivial and formulaic. There are exhibitions of contemporary Russian and foreign artists, as well as performances, concerts and film screenings. Taking an unusual exhibition in the "Garage", you're always a little risk, but it is perhaps the only place which so clearly shows that art is not static: it is in motion and develops.
5. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Address: 25 Petrovka Street; Ermolaevskiy lane 17; Tverskoy Boulevard, 9; Gogol Boulevard, 10; Bolshaya Georgian, 15.
This museum is dedicated to the art of Russia and the Soviet Union: the work of avant-garde artists, nonconformists and contemporary artists. Permanent basis the exhibition are works of the XX century, so the museum can be seen partly as a historical, which, however, does not make it less interesting. The museum has several branches, the main of which are within walking distance of each other. You can enter one ticket.
Food & beverage
In Moscow you can find dishes of different levels of authenticity from almost anywhere in the world and a lot of interesting alcohol, which, recall, does harm to your health.
1. Central market
Address: Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, 1.
Gastronomic markets - it is a large area with a food court where the focus dozens of small cafes. The chefs here prepare dishes from different countries. Perhaps only in such institutions may be included in the dinner well cooked tom yum with authentic Italian pasta or authentic Chinese pastries baozi. Central Market on Christmas Boulevard (also known as the market in Color) - one of the earliest and largest gastronomic markets in Moscow.
2. Bar "under the weather"
Address: Passion Blvd., 6, Building 2.
"Under the fly" working around the clock, but if you come here on a Friday or Saturday after eight in the evening, you may not be allowed. Just because there will be no seats. Guests institutions not only hold tables, but sometimes sit in several rows near the bar: it is interesting to communicate and pour faster. The main advantages of facility: not very high prices for cocktails, a good drink, a casual atmosphere and branded noodles with additives to taste guest.
3. Pizzeria Camorra Pizza e Birra
Address: Big Spasoglinischevsky Lane, 9/1, building 10.
It may seem that this is a common, cozy and a bit cramped cafe with pizza and beer, which in Moscow tens. But it is not so. Firstly, the pizza here, in the opinion of many Muscovites, could compete with the one that is prepared in Italy. And secondly, the range of beers is St. Petersburg's team AF Brew - one of the most popular crafting breweries country.
4. Vodkaroom "Zinziver"
Address: Pokrovsky Boulevard, 2/14.
If the word "Vodka Room" makes you frown, discard prejudices. To this type of establishments in the capital are in a special way. For example, "Second Breath" in Novokuznetsk until closing time was called the last place, which preserved the spirit of old Moscow. And now one of the most popular rumochnaia city - "Zinziver" on Chistye Prudy.
5. Brasserie Rule Taproom
Address: Starovagankovsky lane, 19.
If you are looking for a bustling brasserie with good music, in which the rest Muscovites, rather than tourists, pass places on the Arbat and walk to the alley Starovagankovsky. Rule Taproom, or simply "Wheel" can boast a record number of beers, but just to offer something to your taste. Kitchen not, but on the other hand is the "Corner" - a vegan cafe in which prepare delicious burgers cutlet with lentil.
Standard set for the first visit to the capital
A small list for lovers of classical music, who want to bring home a packet of typical pictures on the background of the Kremlin walls and the skyscrapers "Moscow-City".
1. Red Square
Address: Red Square.
Here it is concentrated several classical landmarks: the place of execution, a monument to Minin and Pozharsky, the Lenin Mausoleum, Kremlin Wall Necropolis, St. Basil's Cathedral and GUM. Winter ice rink. There is nothing special to do, but for classic pictures "for Mom" - what you need.
2. Old Arbat
Address: Old Arbat Street.
Each building is equipped with some tablet and has its own history, which, however, does not Arbat particularly interesting. There are always crowds of tourists, not so many good cafes and almost completely absent any activity. Endless cabinets and crowds diluted unless the street musicians or fakirs. The Arbat you can walk once: to study plaques reach a monument to Bulat Okudzhava, the museum-apartment of Pushkin or a wall in memory of Viktor Tsoi.
3. ENEA
Address: Prospect Mira, 119.
Exhibition of Economic Achievements lost its meaning: many pavilions are closed and turned into a vast area of the park is absolutely normal. But something interesting could be found, such as Cosmonautics Museum, panoramic movie theater or amusement.
4. Moscow City
Address: Presnenskaya embankment.
Oddly enough rest where local used to work, but the scale of architectural ambition quarter still fascinates. Visit the "Moscow City" may be for the sake of viewing platforms overlooking the city or "Afimall" - a six-story shopping mall with 450 shops and cafés.
5. Victory Park
Address: Victory Square, 3g.
If you are inspiring story Great Patriotic WarDo not forget to visit the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill, where there is a memorial complex, military equipment and themed sites. Also in the park can be reached by small train tour.
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