Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #18 in Moscow, Russia

The Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov House Museum is a museum dedicated to the work of the poet Mikhail Lermontov. It is located in Moscow at 2 Malaya Molchanovka Street and is part of the State Literary Museum. Lermontov lived in this mansion with his grandmother Elizaveta Arsenyeva from 1829 to 1832. The museum was opened in 1981 thanks to the initiative of the writer and TV presenter Irakli Andronikov. As of 2018, the collection includes antique furniture from the 19th century, a collection of lifetime publications, photographs and images of the poet's family and friends.

Wikipedia: Дом-музей М. Ю. Лермонтова (Москва) (RU)

Alexander Ivanovich Zenin was a Soviet military pilot, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Hero of the Russian Federation (28.02.1994). Colonel.

Wikipedia: Зенин, Александр Иванович (RU)

The House of Porokhovshchikova is a mansion in the center of Moscow, at the address: Starokonyenny Lane, 36. Built in 1871-1872 for the Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist A. A. Porokhovshchikov, the owner of the Slavic Bazaar and the same name restaurant. The building, built on an ancient foundation made of wood, successfully synthesized the techniques of the national architectural tradition. Breath, composed of thick logs, decorated with carved platbands, cornices and puzzles, the mansion combines large volumes and the appearance that is not devoid of picturesqueness. The project of the house in 1873 received a prize at the World Exhibition in Vienna.

Wikipedia: Дом Пороховщикова (RU)

The State Academic Theatre named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov is a drama theater in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1913 as the Student Drama Studio, headed by Yevgeny Vakhtangov. The official date of the opening of the 3rd studio of the Moscow Art Theater (MKAT) is November 13, 1921, on this day the play "The Miracle of St. Anthony" was shown. In 1926, the studio was renamed the Vakhtangov Theater, named after its founder and first director. In 1956, the theater was given the status of an academic theater.

Wikipedia: Государственный академический театр имени Е. Вахтангова (RU), Website

The Melnikov House is a one-apartment residential house, a landmark building of the Soviet avant-garde. It was built in 1927–1929 in Krivoarbatsky Lane in Moscow by the outstanding Soviet architect Konstantin Melnikov for himself and his family.

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The House Museum of Alexander Ivanovich Görzen is a museum dedicated to the work of the writer Alexander Herzen. Located in Moscow at Sivtsev Vrazhek, 27, is a branch of the State Literary Museum. The exhibition is in a wooden Empire-style mansion built in the 1820s, where Herzen lived from 1843 to 1847. The Museum opened in 1976 on the initiative of the writer ' s relatives. As of 2018, the collection includes more than five hundred exhibits: lifetime publications, photographs and personal belongings of the writer.

Wikipedia: Дом-музей А. И. Герцена (RU), Website

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich was a prominent Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including The Motherland Calls, the largest sculpture in the world at the time.

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Archil Viktorovich Gelovani was a Soviet officer and later Marshal of the engineer troops, responsible for logistics, fortification and military infrastructure during and after World War II. He was tasked on several occasions with fortifying strategically important areas and also reconstruction, including all Black Sea ports during and after World War II. He served primarily on military engineering and defense strategy posts, including being the Deputy Minister of Defence and would play a major role in the structural development of the Soviet armed forces and strategic missile forces during the Cold War era. An avenue in Georgia's capital Tbilisi and a street in the city of Sevastopol have been named after Marshal Gelovani.

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Pyotr Andreyevich Gorchakov was a Soviet military political officer, Hero of the Soviet Union (17.10.1943). Colonel General (1972).

Wikipedia: Горчаков, Пётр Андреевич (RU)

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.

Wikipedia: Дом Бурганова (RU), Website

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.

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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)

The Alexander Shilov Gallery is an art gallery created in 1997 on the basis of the author's works of the People's Artist of the USSR Alexander Shilov. The main exhibition spaces of the gallery are located in the mansion of the XIX century at 3 Znamenka Street, built by the architect Evgraf Tyurin. In 2003, the exhibition halls were expanded: the neighboring mansion was restored, as a result of which the house acquired the features of the Empire style, and a basement complex was erected underground, connecting the two buildings. As of 2019, the gallery building complex is a single architectural ensemble, including 22 halls with paintings and graphic works. The museum's exposition includes more than 1200 works by Alexander Shilov, donated by the artist to Moscow.

Wikipedia: Галерея Александра Шилова (RU), Website

Znamensky Cathedral is an Orthodox church in Kitay-Gorod in Moscow, the former cathedral of the Znamensky Monastery. It belongs to the Iveron Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Знаменский собор (Москва) (RU)

The Znamensky Monastery in the Old Sovereign's Court is a former monastery in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1629-1631. It was consecrated in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign". After 1923 the monastery was closed. The monastery cathedral has survived to this day. The buildings of the monastery are located at 8-10 Varvarka Street.

Wikipedia: Знаменский монастырь (Москва) (RU)

The Likhud Brothers were two Greek monks from Cephalonia who founded and managed the Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow between 1685 and 1694. Their names were Ioannikios Leichoudes or Ioannikii Likhud and Sophronios Leichoudes or Sofronii Likhud.

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The Epiphany Monastery is the oldest male monastery in Moscow, situated in the Kitai gorod, just one block away from the Moscow Kremlin.

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The Vladimir Mayakovsky State Museum is a museum-apartment of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, founded in 1937 on the initiative of his widow Lilya Brik as a library-museum. Initially, it was located in Hendrikov Lane, where the poet lived with Lilya and Osip Brik from 1926 to 1930. On the afternoon of April 14, 1930, Mayakovsky committed suicide. In 1972, the museum was moved to the former communal apartment at number 12 on the 3rd floor in Lubyansky Proyezd, where it was completely rebuilt. In 1989, according to the project of the museologist Taras Polyakov, the exposition was modernized in the constructivist style, a four-storey exhibition space was created according to the project of the architect A. V. Bokov, dedicated not only to the memory of the poet, but also to the Russian avant-garde.

Wikipedia: Государственный музей В. В. Маяковского (RU), Website

The Belogorodskaya, or Belgorodskaya, wall is a whitewashed brick fortress wall that surrounded Moscow's White City from the end of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century. Presumably, this part of the city got its name from the color of the wall, whitewashed with lime. During the reign of Catherine II, the dilapidated wall was demolished and the Boulevard Ring was laid in its place. The exterior wall was only one year old.

Wikipedia: Белгородская стена (RU)

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

Wikipedia: Vasily Zhukovsky (EN)