Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #17 in Moscow, Russia
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4.1 km
70 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: Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers laid down in September 1947 and completed in 1952, designed by Dmitry Chechulin and Andrei Rostkovsky. The main tower has 32 levels and is 176 metres (577 ft) tall. At the time of construction it was the tallest building in Europe.
Sight 2: Храм Троицы Живоначальной в Серебряниках
The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Serebryaniki is a parish church belonging to the Intercession Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is located at Serebryanichesky Lane, 1a.
Sight 3: Gary Tatinsian Gallery
Gary Tatintsian Gallery (Tatintsian Gallery) is one of the leading private contemporary art institutions dedicated to exhibiting key representatives of the global art scene.
Sight 4: Дмитрию Донскому
Pummy Dmitry Donskom is a bronze sculpture on a granite pedestal in the square at the intersection of the Nikoloyamskaya and Yauz streets of Moscow, established in 2013 in honor of Prince Dmitry Donskoy. The author is the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov.
Sight 5: Храм Симеона Столпника за Яузой
The Temple of Reverend Simeon Pillopnik behind Yausa is an Orthodox temple in the Tagansk district of Moscow. It relates to the Pokrovsky Greeting of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Sight 6: Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы
The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on Lyshchikova Hill is an Orthodox church in the Tagansky district of Moscow. It belongs to the Intercession Deanery of the Moscow Diocese.
Wikipedia: Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы на Лыщиковой горе (RU)
Sight 7: Андрей Рублёв
The Monument to Andrei Rublev is a monument in Moscow, Russia, erected in 1985. It is located in front of the entrance to the former Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. The monument is dedicated to the most famous and revered Russian iconographer of the Moscow school of icon painting, book and monumental painting of the 15th century, a monk of this monastery, Andrei Rublev. The authors of the monument are the sculptor O. K. Komov, the architects V. A. Nesterov and N. I. Komova. The monument is located in front of the building at 10 Andronyevskaya Square.
Sight 8: Центральный музей древнерусской культуры и искусства им. Андрея Рублева
The Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art of Andrei Rublev is a museum of Russian church art of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. It was founded in 1947 by scientists Pyotr Baranovsky, Igor Grabar, Nikolai Voronin and Pyotr Maksimov, on whose initiative the restoration of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery began. The official opening of the museum took place on September 21, 1960 and was timed to coincide with the 600th anniversary of the birth of icon painter Andrei Rublev. The collection consists of more than thirteen thousand icons of the 12th-20th centuries, frescoes, wooden sculptures, manuscripts and early printed books, items of copper artistic casting, embroidery, tiles, as well as archaeological finds.
Wikipedia: Центральный музей древнерусской культуры и искусства имени Андрея Рублёва (RU), Website
Sight 9: Cathedral of the Savior
The Cathedral of the Savior of the Image Not-Made-by-Hands is an Orthodox church in the Tagansky district of Moscow, in the former Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. A monument of early Moscow architecture of the XV century. It is the oldest partially preserved building in the city, as well as the oldest functioning church in the city outside the Moscow Kremlin.
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