Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #20 in Moscow, Russia

Kutuzovskaya Izba is a military history museum in Moscow, dedicated to the memory of the military council in Fili. Department of the Museum-Panorama "Battle of Borodino".

Wikipedia: Кутузовская изба (RU)

The monument to Yanka Kupala in Moscow is installed on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in the square in front of house 28.

Wikipedia: Памятник Янке Купале (Москва) (RU)

Memorial to Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration, a Russian general of infantry, prince, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. The monument presents the image of a commander calling his soldiers to attack. The inscription on the monument reads: "To Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration a grateful fatherland."

Wikipedia: Памятник Багратиону (Москва) (RU)

The Obelisk "Moscow is a Hero City" is a Moscow monument unveiled on May 9, 1977 at the intersection of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street in memory of the defense of the city in 1941.

Wikipedia: Городу-Герою Москве (RU)

The monument to Lesya Ukrainka in Moscow is a monument to the Ukrainian poetess, translator and cultural figure Lesya Ukrainka, located in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Памятник Лесе Украинке (Москва) (RU)

The Garden Pavilion with a Garden is a garden building in the neoclassical style, erected according to the project of architect Konstantin Burov in 1911 as part of the Lopatin city estate. It is located in Moscow at Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane, house No 42, building 5. It is a rather rare type of monument for the city, since with the disappearance of the urban manor culture in Moscow, most of these buildings have not survived.

Wikipedia: Садовый павильон с садом (RU)

The House-Museum of Alexander Ivanovich Herzen is a museum dedicated to the activities of the writer Alexander Herzen. Located in Moscow at 27 Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane, it is a branch of the State Literary Museum. The exposition is located in a wooden mansion in the Empire style, 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

The Ruben Simonov Moscow Drama Theater is a drama theater that operated in Moscow in 1998-2014. It was located on the Arbat, in Kaloshin Lane, opposite the Actor's house.

Wikipedia: Московский драматический театр имени Рубена Симонова (RU)

A3 Gallery is an art gallery founded in 1986. Full name: Moscow Exhibition Hall Gallery "A3"". The director since 1989 is Vitaly Kopachev.

Wikipedia: А3 (галерея) (RU), Website

The Porokhovshchikov House is a mansion in the center of Moscow, at 36 Starokonyushenny Lane. It was built in 1871-1872 for the Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist A. A. Porokhovshchikov, the owner of the Slavic Bazaar hotel and the restaurant of the same name. The building, built on an ancient wooden foundation, successfully synthesized the techniques of the national architectural tradition. Built of thick logs, decorated with carved architraves, cornices and valances, the mansion combines large volumes and a picturesque appearance. The project of the house in 1873 received a prize at the World Exhibition in Vienna.

Wikipedia: Дом Пороховщикова (RU)

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.

Wikipedia: Melnikov House (EN)

The Tsoi Wall is a graffiti-covered wall in Moscow, dedicated to musician Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino. The wall is located at the house №37, at the intersection of Arbat Street and Krivoarbatsky Lane and is considered one of Moscow's landmarks. It is customary for Tsoi's fans to leave a broken lit cigarette in the special ash plate by the wall.

Wikipedia: Tsoi Wall (EN)

The State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov is a drama theater in Moscow. It was founded in 1913 as the Student Drama Studio, headed by Yevgeny Vakhtangov. The official opening date of the 3rd studio of the Moscow Art Theater (MKhAT) 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 - after the name of 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

Spaso-haus, or Vtorov's mansion, is a historic mansion in the center of Moscow, since the end of 1933 rented by the US government as the residence of the US ambassador to the USSR or Russia. A monument of neoclassical architecture of the pre-revolutionary time, located at the address: Spasopeskovsky Lane, 10.

Wikipedia: Особняк Второва (RU)

The House-Museum of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov is a museum dedicated to the work of the poet Mikhail Lermontov. It is located in Moscow at Malaya Molchanovka Street, 2 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 of the XIX century, a collection of lifetime publications, photographs and images of the poet's family and friends.

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

The Apraksin-Buturlin estate is a Moscow estate of the Apraksin princes, erected at the beginning of the XVIII century at the intersection of Znamenka and Krestovozdvizhensky Lane. The building was rebuilt several times by subsequent owners. At different times, the estate belonged to Count Roman Vorontsov, Colonel Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, chamberlain Sergei Gagarin, his daughter Maria Buturlina and others. From 1769, part of the house was rented by a theater troupe under the direction of entrepreneurs Giovanni Belmonti and Giuseppe Cinti, and later by the Znamensky Opera House. In 1962, the mansion was transferred to the Gnessin Music School.

Wikipedia: Усадьба Апраксиных — Бутурлиных (RU)

The Church of St. Nicholas in Old Vagankovo is an Orthodox church that was once located in the village of Vagankovo, which became part of Moscow in the XVI century.

Wikipedia: Храм Святителя Николая в Старом Ваганькове (RU), Website

The Monument to Fyodor Dostoevsky is a monument to the classic of Russian literature Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was installed in 1997 in front of the building of the Russian State Library in honor of the 175th anniversary of the writer's birth and the 850th anniversary of Moscow. The authors of the monument are sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov and architects Mikhail Posokhin, Alexander Kochekovsky, Sergey Sharov.

Wikipedia: Памятник Достоевскому (Москва, РГБ) (RU)

The Monument to Empress Alexander I is a bronze sculpture in the center of Moscow in memory of Emperor Alexander I of All Russia by People's Artist of the Russian Federation, sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov and Honored Architect of the Russian Federation Igor Voskresensky. It was opened on November 20, 2014 in the Alexander Garden, not far from the Borovitsky Gate. The first monument to Alexander I in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Памятник Александру I (Москва) (RU)

The Monument to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich is a monument dedicated to Sergei Alexandrovich, it was consecrated on April 2, 1908, in the exact spot of his assassination. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the monument was destroyed in 1918, but was restored in 1998 in the Novospassky Monastery, where Sergei's remains are buried. The second restored monument was consecrated in the Moscow Kremlin in 2017, where the original monument once stood.

Wikipedia: Monument to Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich (EN)

The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Znamenie" on Sheremetev Dvor is an Orthodox church in the Arbat district of Moscow, erected as a house in the late XVII century in the style of Moscow Baroque on the territory of the estate of the boyar Lev Naryshkin.

Wikipedia: Церковь иконы Божией Матери «Знамение» на Шереметевом дворе (RU), Website

The Memorial Museum-Apartment of Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev is a museum of the scientist and physiologist Kliment Timiryazev, founded as a memorial office in 1942. It belongs to the Moscow Agricultural Academy. It is located at Romanov Lane, 4, building 2 in the wing of a former apartment building. The museum's exposition consists of more than 29 thousand exhibits, including books from the Timiryazev Scientific Library, antique furniture and artworks.

Wikipedia: Музей-квартира Тимирязева (RU)

The monument to M. V. Lomonosov on Mokhovaya Street in Moscow was erected next to the building of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow University in the Arbat district. The current monument to Lomonosov is the third one that stood on this site.

Wikipedia: Памятник Ломоносову (Москва, Моховая улица) (RU)

The Commemoration of Patriarch Germogen (Ermogen) is a bronze sculpture on a pedestal in the center of Moscow in memory of the second Patriarch of All Russia Germogen. It was installed and opened on May 25, 2013 in the Alexander Garden opposite the Middle Arsenal Tower of the Moscow Kremlin on the initiative of the Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Kirill of All Russia.

Wikipedia: Памятник патриарху Гермогену (RU)

The Alexander Garden Obelisk is an obelisk located within the Alexander Garden, near the walls of Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia. The obelisk was initially designed by S. A. Vlasev and erected on July 10, 1914, at the entrance of the garden. It was created as a celebration of the tercentenary of the House of Romanov. The obelisk was moved closer to the center of the garden in 1966.

Wikipedia: Alexander Garden Obelisk (EN)

The Church of the Prophet Elijah in the Warm Rows, in the former Novgorod metochion, is an Orthodox church in the Tverskoy district of Moscow. It belongs to the Iveron Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Церковь Ильи Пророка на Новгородском подворье (RU)

The Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki is an Orthodox church in the Tverskoy district of Moscow, the standard of Moscow uzoro of the mid-XVII century, built by Yaroslavl merchants in Kitay-gorod. This building is a milestone in the history of Russian architecture, it served as a model for many Moscow churches of the second half of the XVII century.

Wikipedia: Церковь Троицы в Никитниках (RU)

The Monument to Cyril and Methodius is a monument to the brothers Cyril and Methodius in Moscow, located on Lubyansky Proyezd, near the Kitay-Gorod metro station.

Wikipedia: Памятник Кириллу и Мефодию (Москва) (RU)