Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #17 in Moscow, Russia

The Okhotnikov City Estate, the Stepanov City Estate is an estate in Moscow at 32/1 Prechistenka Street. An object of cultural heritage of federal significance. The estate complex includes the main house, facing Prechistenka Street, a fragment of the original manor fence and a closed unfenced courtyard, along the perimeter of which there are two wings 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.

Wikipedia: Усадьба Охотниковых (RU)

The Museum of I. S. Turgenev is a wooden mansion built after the Moscow fire of 1812 at 37 Ostozhenka Street, where in 1840-1850 I. S. Turgenev's mother, V. P. Turgenev, lived, and where the events that formed the outline of the story "Mumu" took place. In 2007, the writer's museum was founded in the house.

Wikipedia: Музей И. С. Тургенева (RU), Website

The Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center is an educational institution in Moscow, including an opera house. It is located in a specially built building on Ostozhenka Street.

Wikipedia: Центр оперного пения Галины Вишневской (RU), Website

The State Museum of Leo Tolstoy 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.

Wikipedia: Государственный музей Л. Н. Толстого (RU)

The Church of the Reigning Icon of the Mother of God is a wooden Orthodox church-chapel in Moscow, part of the complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the Moscow Diocese.

Wikipedia: Храм Державной иконы Божией Матери (Москва) (RU)

Big clay No. 4 - sculpture of the Swiss artist Urs Fisher, presenting the act of creation, creation, transformation. Created in 2013-2014 was exhibited in New York (2015) and Florence (2017). In August 2021, shortly before the opening of the Center for Contemporary Art “House of Culture GES-2”, was installed in front of its entrance complex, in the Moscow Bolotnaya embankment, and caused an extremely ambiguous assessment.

Wikipedia: Большая глина № 4 (RU)

The Church of St. Nikola on Bersenevka is a Edinoverie Orthodox church in the Yakimanka district of Moscow. It belongs to the Moskvoretsky Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is the architectural ensemble with chambers of Averky Kirillov.

Wikipedia: Храм Николая Чудотворца на Берсеневке (RU)

The Moscow State Variety Theater is a Moscow theater founded in 1954. Since 1961, it has been located in the Government House at 20/2 Bersenevskaya Embankment. The auditorium is designed for 1300 people. It hosted performances by pop artists, performances of both the theater itself and other troupes. Closed in 2020 for repairs, the theater is scheduled to open in 2022.

Wikipedia: Московский театр эстрады (RU)

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.

Wikipedia: Музей «Дом на набережной» (RU), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices (EN)

Monument to Repin is a monument to Ilya Efimovich Repin on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. Located near the embankment of the same name and Luzhkov bridge; The nearest metro station is Tretyakovskaya.

Wikipedia: Памятник Репину (Москва) (RU)

"Tree of Love" is a sculptural composition in the form of a tree, specially designed for newlyweds or just people in love to hang locks on it, symbolizing the strength of relationships.

Wikipedia: Дерево любви (RU)

The Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment is a new building of the Tretyakov Gallery under construction, located at 10 Kadashevskaya Embankment, next to the historical buildings of the museum in Lavrushinsky Lane. The new museum building was designed by Mosproekt-4 and supplemented by a competition project of facades from the SPEECH architectural bureau. Construction began in the summer of 2014, completion of work is scheduled for 2024.

Wikipedia: Третьяковская галерея на Кадашёвской набережной (RU)

The Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi is both a Russian Orthodox house church and museum that is part of the State Tretyakov Gallery located in Moscow. The church is home to several religious relics and icons, including the culturally important Our Lady of Vladimir.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi (EN)

The Resurrection Church in Kadashi Sloboda is a major Naryshkin Baroque church in Moscow, formerly the tallest building in Zamoskvorechye. It may still be seen from Red Square.

Wikipedia: Kadashi Church (EN), Website