Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Moscow, Russia
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6.9 km
102 m
Explore Moscow in Russia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in MoscowIndividual Sights in MoscowSight 1: The Children — Victims Of Adult Vices
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.
Sight 2: Дом на набережной
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.
Sight 3: Александру II
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.
Sight 4: Prince Golitsyn Family Estate
The Golitsyn Estate in Znamensky Lane is a manor complex built in 1759-1766 for Prince Mikhail Golitsyn according to the project of architect Savva Chevakinsky. From 1775 to 1776, Catherine II lived in the Golitsyn estate, who came to Moscow to celebrate the conclusion of the Küçük-Kainarji peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. Especially for the Empress, a wooden Prechistensky Palace was erected on the territory of the estate, connected to the main building and neighboring estates by long corridors. After the departure of Catherine II to St. Petersburg, the structure was dismantled.
Wikipedia: Усадьба Голицыных в Знаменском переулке (RU), Website
Sight 5: Gallery of European and American Art
The Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th and 20th centuries is an art gallery that presents works by Western European and American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including collections of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the collections of patrons of the arts Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. The museum is located in the left wing of the Golitsyn estate in Znamensky Lane, which has been part of the Pushkin Museum since the early 1980s. The gallery was opened in 2006 as a branch of the gallery.
Wikipedia: Галерея искусства стран Европы и Америки XIX—XX веков (RU)
Sight 6: Ступа трёх драгоценностей
The Stupa of Enlightenment or Stupa of the Three Jewels, located in the courtyard of the Lopukhin estate in Moscow, was built in 2008. Before the opening in 2017, the stupa in Otradnoye was the only non-decorative stupa in Moscow.
Sight 7: Усадьба Лопухиных
The Lopukhin Estate is a manor complex built in the late 17th century by Fyodor Lopukhin on the territory of the White City. In 1775-1776, the mansion was part of the temporary Prechistensky Palace, created to house the imperial court at the time of the celebration of the Küçük-Kaynarji peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. At that time, the building was home to Catherine II's favorite Grigory Potemkin. After the October Revolution, the site was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Cheka, and in the 1960s, a branch of the Museum of Marx and Engels began to operate on the basis of the estate. At the end of the 20th century, the building was renovated under the leadership of the International Centre of the Roerichs and re-equipped to house the Roerich Museum, which since 2016 has been a branch of the Museum of Oriental Art. In 2019, the estate was transferred to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
Sight 8: М. А. Шолохову
A monument to the Soviet writer, public figure, Nobel Prize winner in literature Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov was erected in Moscow on Gogolevsky Boulevard.
Wikipedia: Памятник Шолохову (Москва, Гоголевский бульвар) (RU)
Sight 9: The Bourganov House
The Burganov House is a Moscow state museum established in 2001 on the basis of the workshop of sculptor Alexander Burganov. It is located at Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane, 15, bldg. 9.
Sight 10: А. М. Василевскому
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky was a Soviet career-officer in the Red Army who attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (1942–1945) and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, and as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953. As the Chief of the General Staff from 1942 to 1945, Vasilevsky became involved in planning and coordinating almost all the decisive Soviet offensives in World War II, from the Operation Uranus of November 1942 to the assaults on East Prussia, Königsberg and Manchuria.
Sight 11: Friedrich Engels
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.
Sight 12: Белые палаты на улице Пречистенке
The White Chambers on Prechistenka Street are an architectural monument of the XVII century and a museum in Moscow.
Sight 13: Государственный музей Л. Н. Толстого
The Leo Tolstoy State Museum is a state literary museum dedicated to the memory of the writer Leo Tolstoy. It was founded in 1911 by members of the Tolstoy Society. Since 1920, the museum has been located in the former mansion of the Lopukhins-Stanitskaya, built in 1817-1822 in the Empire style by the architect Afanasy Grigoriev.
Sight 14: Усадьба Давыдова
The Davydov Estate is an estate in Moscow at 17/10 Prechistenka Street. Identified Cultural Heritage Site.
Sight 15: Усадьба Охотниковых
The Okhotnikov City Estate, the Stepanov City Estate is an estate in Moscow at 32/1 Prechistenka Street. A cultural heritage site of federal significance. The estate complex includes the main house, facing Prechistenka Street, a fragment of the original estate fence and a closed unfenced courtyard, along the perimeter of which there are two outbuildings 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.
Sight 16: Музей-мастерская А. С. Голубкиной
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 museum was opened 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. In 1986, Anna Golubkina's studio became part of the Tretyakov Gallery.
Sight 17: Особняк Маргариты Морозовой
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.
Sight 18: Дом Палибина
The Palibin House is a one-story mansion on Burdenko Street in the Khamovniki district of Moscow. It was part of the ensemble of the small city estate of Gavriil Palibin. The building is recognized as an object of cultural heritage of Russia and is one of the oldest wooden buildings in the capital. The total area of the interior is 328.1 m².
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