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Statue of Catherine the Great
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Friedland Gate
The best way to see what pre-WWII Königsberg looked like is to attend the 40-minute multimedia show screened in the halls of this museum occupying one of the 13 original city gates. The evocative show is made up of projections of photos taken in the city between 1908 and 1913, and
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Ulitsa Kirova
Chelyabinsk’s highlight is strolling down pedestrianised ul Kirova, paved with cobblestones. Life-sized bronze statues of local personages dot the street – look out for an Asian lad with a camel. The animal is the heraldic symbol of the Chelyabinsk region, signifying its importance
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Angara Village
Some 12km from Tsentralny, this impressive open-air ethnographic museum contains a rare 17th-century wooden watchtower and buildings rescued from submerged old Bratsk. A series of shaman sites and Evenki chumy (tepee-shaped conical dwellings) lie in the woods behind. Take a taxi or
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Park Monrepo
A lovely place to escape the world for a few hours, if not most of the day, is this 180-hectare park facing on to tranquil Zashchitnaya Bay. It’s laid out in a classical style, with various pavilions, curved bridges, arbours and sculptures. Buses 1 or 6 (R20, 15 minutes) will get y
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Church of St John the Warrior
The finest of all Zamoskvorechie’s churches mixes Moscow and European baroque styles, resulting in a melange of shapes and colours. It was commissioned by Peter the Great in thanks for his 1709 victory over Sweden at Poltava. The gilt, wood-carved iconostasis was originally install
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Lermontov Museum
Many Pyatigorsk attractions revolve around larger-than-life writer, poet, painter, cavalry soldier, society beau and duellist Mikhail Lermontov. Chief among them is this museum. Three cottages contain some original furniture, copies of Lermontov’s poems, sketches and 19th-century t
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Town History Museum
The Town History Museum delves into Sochi’s maritime roots, with the usual sprint through history from Stone Age relics to WWII memorabilia. What shines is the space display, with the Soyuz 9 capsule that returned to Earth in June 1970 after 18 days in orbit. On board were a local
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Chaliapin House Museum
Opera buffs will want to visit this house-museum where the great singer Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938) lived before fleeing the Soviet Union in 1922. The kindly babushkas (clearly music lovers) will happily play some of the singer’s recordings for you as you peruse his personal effec
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Studio & Kitchen
Built in 1873 by Victor Gartman, the ornate Russian-style wooden studio is notable for the carved art nouveau detailing on the exterior. It contains an exhibit of Mikhail Vrubels ceramic works, including an exquisite tile stove. Nearby, the former kitchen now contains a collection
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St Nicholas Cathedral
The 12th-century Kyiv-style St Nicholas Cathedral is all that remains of the early palace complex of the Novgorod princes, from which Yaroslav’s Court (Ярославово дворище) gets its name. The cathedral holds church artefacts and temporary exhibitions of local interest. Downstairs yo
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Odigitria Cathedral
Built between 1741 and 1785, UU’s largest church was also the first stone structure to appear in the city. Used as a museum store from 1929 until the fall of communism, its exterior has been renovated in a chalky white and the domes once again tipped with gold, but the interiors ar
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Lindstrem’s Dacha
Opposite the entrance to the palace and scoring high on the modern kitsch factor is Lindstrem’s Dacha, once the home of the Grand Duke’s doctor Peter I von Lindstrem. Restored for the 2005 G8 summit, also hosted at the Konstantinovsky Palace, the modest-sized building was used by P
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Gatchina Town
In the nearby town there are a couple of interesting churches. The baroque Pavlovsk Cathedral , at the end of the pedestrianised shopping street off the central pr 25 Oktyabrya,has a grandly restored interior with a soaring central dome. A short walk west is the Pokrovsky Cathedral
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Moscow Design Museum
Insightful exhibits examine the history, present and future of design. Eg, Soviet Design 1950-1980 and Russian Packaging Design. Exhibits are held around town at venues like Vinzavod and Manege. And sometimes they are held in the `mobile exhibit hall - a big, boldly decorated bus t
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Church upon the Blood
The massive Byzantine-style Church upon the Blood dominates this site. While many believe these funds might have been better spent, this new church was built to honour the Romanov family, now elevated to the status of saints. Rumour has it that this controversial church contains th
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Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral
The Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral, its blue domes spangled with gold, was founded in the 1220s. Only its richly carved lower section is original white stone, though, the rest being 16th-century brick. The inside is sumptuous, with 13th- and 17th-century frescoes and 13th-century
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Arsenal
North of the State Kremlin Palace is the 18th-century Arsenal, commissioned by Peter the Great to house workshops and depots for guns and weaponry. An unrealised plan at the end of the 19th century was to open a museum of the Napoleonic Wars in the Arsenal. Now housing the Kremlin
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Memorial Synagogue at Poklonnaya Hill
The Memorial Synagogue at Poklonnaya Hill opened in 1998 as a memorial to Holocaust victims, as well as a museum of the Russian Jewry. Admission is with a guide only, so you must make arrangements in advance, especially if you want a tour in English. Not far from the synagogue, a m
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Goritsky Monastery
This large monastery standing at the turn to Botik Museum (2.5km south of the centre) was founded in the 14th century, though the oldest buildings today are the 17th-century gates, gate-church and belfry. The centrepiece is the Assumption Cathedral , with its beautiful carved icono
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