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Summer Palace
St Petersburg’s first palace is the modest, two-storey Summer Palace in the summer garden’s northeast corner. Built for Peter from 1710 to 1714, it is pretty well intact with little reliefs around the walls depicting Russian naval victories. Inside it’s stocked with early-18th-cent
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Treasury of the Sakha Republic
Pay a visit to this unique museum for a look at Yakutias rich mineral wealth combined with fine craft traditions. Youll see exquisite carvings in mammoth tusks, tiny sculptures adorned with precious stones and a radiant 11-carat diamond. Admission is by 40-minute guided tour, which
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Peter the Great House
Vologda’s oldest museum (1885) is a compact late-17th-century stone house that belonged to the Gutman traders who hosted Tsar Peter I during his March 1724 visit to Vologda. Exhibits include a copy of Rastrellis death mask of Peter the Great and the tsars red tunic, underlining his
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Kings Gate
Focusing on Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy to the city in 1697, this revamped gate also has good models of old Königsberg and exhibits on the personalities who shaped the region’s history. A little south of here, where Moskovsky pr meets Litovsky val, is the twin-towered Sackheim
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Military Technology Museum
This vast indoor and open-air collection of tanks and armoured vehicles is the best of the bunch of military museums in and around Yekaterinburg, located on the northern outskirts in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. Take bus 111 or marshrutky 111 or 111a from stop Kinotsentr Zarya (at Uralmash m
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Manor House
Several rooms of the manor house have been preserved intact, complete with artwork by various resident artists. The main attraction is Mamontov’s dining room, featuring Repin’s portraits of the patron and his wife, as well as Serov’s luminous Girl with Peaches . A striking maiolica
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Moscow Museum of Modern Art Yermolaevsky
This handsome neoclassical building houses a branch of the main MMOMA on ul Petrovka. Formerly the Moscow Union of Artists, it is now utilised for temporary exhibits of paintings, sculpture, photography and multimedia pieces. Be sure to check the website to see what’s on, as the mu
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Mikhailovsky Gardens
Administered by the Russian Museum, these 8.7-hectare gardens are lovely and offer an impressive perspective of Mikhailovsky Palace. They are famous for their Style Moderne wrought-iron fence and gates, a profusion of metallic blooms and flourishes that wrap around one side of the
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Civil War Monument
This colossal monument commemorates the Red Army soldiers who took part in the 1917–23 Russian Civil War. The square was home to the Alexandro-Nevsky Cathedral until 1930, when it was destroyed by Soviet authorities. There is a miniature of the cathedral to the right of the monumen
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Sergei Diaghilev Museum
The Sergei Diaghilev Museum is a small, lovingly curated school museum dedicated to the impresario (1872–1929) who turned Russian ballet into a world-famous brand. Children speaking foreign languages, including English, serve as guides on interesting general tours as well as themed
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Monastery of the Epiphany
The Monastery of the Epiphany is now the Archbishop of Kostroma’s residence. The large cathedral in this 14th to 19th century complex is the city’s main working church. The 13th century icon of Our Lady of St Theodore, on the right-hand side of the iconostasis, is supposedly the so
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SS Peter & Paul Cathedral
This is Kazan’s most attractive Orthodox church, built between 1723 and 1726 to commemorate Peter the Great’s visit in 1722.
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Nesterov Art Gallery
This small but interesting gallery contains a fabulous collection of artwork by the Ufa native Mikhail Nesterov and 50 paintings by Ukrainian futurist David Burlyuk, which he left in a Bashkir village when escaping from the Red Army during the Civil War. It’s located two blocks wes
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Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni
The Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni, also called the New Khurul, was built in 2005 in the Tibetan style. The prayer hall sports an 11m-high statue of Buddha and the monk’s robe of the 14th Dalai Lama. Downstairs a small museum depicts the history of Kalmyk Buddhism. Take marshrut
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Korbu Waterfall
From June to September, there are many daily lake trips (per person R800) to Korbu Waterfall. You have a choice between fast, noisy hydrofoils (four hours return) and larger, slower-paced craft (six to eight hours return). The falls are hardly memorable but the journey is very beau
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Murrarium
Housed in an old brick water tower, the Murrarium features the largest private collection of cat-themed art in all of Russia, a feline-fixated country if there ever was one. There are more than 3500 pieces on display, some kitsch, some comely; even if youre not a cat person, the vi
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Datsan
Chita’s main Buddhist temple lies just outside the centre, a 15-minute walk or R150 taxi ride along Bogomyagkova from where it meets ul Babushkina. It’s a recently built affair, but well kept and with all its prayer wheels, butter lamps and yin-yang drums firmly in place. The tranq
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Street Statues
The streets of Voronezh are scattered with a miscellany of amusing bronze statues. Among others, theres the lucky kitten (touch its left paw and make a wish!), a therapeutic chair said to imbue the sitter with positive energy, and a cute balalaika and accordion sitting casually nea
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Western European Art Collection
This fine gallery is just a short walk from the kremlin along Verkhne-Volzhskaya nab, an attractive street lined with restored 19th-century buildings. Inside the art gallery you find a collection of mostly anonymous or lesser-known European painters who, despite their modest creden
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Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
The star exhibit of the Museum of Fine Arts is its elaborate Kasli Iron Pavilion, which won prizes in the 1900 Paris Expo. The museum has a good collection of icons, paintings and decorative art, whereas the Vaynera branch has a small collection of 20th century Russian avant-garde
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