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Nizhegorodsky State Art Museum
The former governor’s house inside the kremlin is now the Nizhegorodsky State Art Museum. Exhibits range from 14th-century icons to 20th-century paintings by artists such as Nikolai Rerikh and Vasily Surikov. The museum begins (on the left after you enter) with 14th-century icons.
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Arms Museum
Tula has been a weapons manufacturing centre for centuries, a legacy celebrated at this fantastically kitted-out new building that houses an impressive collection of metal weaponry and armoury dating back to medieval times. It’s impossible not to appreciate the delicate skill and a
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Tula Kremlin
The five burnished onion domes of the 18th-century Assumption Cathedral (Успенский собор) rising over the ramparts of this restored stone fortress, first constructed out of wood in the early 16th century, are a visual delight. The kremlin’s grounds are entered through the green-dom
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Perm State Art Gallery
Housed in the grand Cathedral of Christ Transfiguration on the banks of the Kama, the Perm State Art Gallery is renowned for its collection of Permian wooden sculpture. Take trolleybus 1 to the stop Galereya or trams 3, 4, 7, 12 and 13 to the stop Tsum. The brightly coloured figure
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Lower Park
Peterhofs masterpiece is the Grand Cascade , a symphony of more than 140 fountains and canals engineered partly by Peter himself. To see the fountains you have to pay to enter the Lower Park and although they work only from May to early October, the gilded ensemble looks marvellous
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Oppression Museum
The gloomy basement of this former NKVD (proto-KGB) building is now a memorable Oppression Museum. Tours are recommended, but should be ordered in advance. Look out for the stunning Gulag map, the system of Soviet labour camps depicted as an uncountable mass of red dots across the
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Antiquities Exhibition Centre
Stone Age and Bronze Age finds from the Tula area are displayed in this wonderful interactive museum, including arrowheads, fish hooks and jewellery. English tours (R1000 per group) tell the stories behind the collections. Have a go at pottery and blacksmithery, or sip tea and nibb
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Ascension Cathedral
Designed by Konstantin Ton (1794–1881), the genius behind Moscows Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Kremlin Armoury and the Grand Kremlin Palace, this beautiful cathedral lords over Yelets from the foot of ul Kommunarov. Beneath the cathedral’s gleaming golden dome, the eye-popp
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Ploshchad Lenina
Central pl Lenina isn’t really a square so much as a jumbled collection of beautifully restored historic buildings interspersed with banal Soviet concrete lumps. The frustrated Lenin statue , now relegated to a traffic circle, points at the ugly concrete of the Drama Theatre , appa
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Church on the Spilled Blood
This five-domed dazzler is St Petersburg’s most elaborate church with a classic Russian Orthodox exterior and interior decorated with some 7000 sq m of mosaics. Officially called the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, its far more striking colloquial name references the assassin
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General Staff Building
The east wing of this magnificent building, wrapping around the south of Dvortsovaya pl and designed by Carlo Rossi in the 1820s, marries restored interiors with contemporary architecture to create a series of galleries displaying the Hermitages amazing collection of Impressionist
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Cathedral of St Dmitry
Never before or after this beauty was built between 1193 and 1197 have Russian stone carvers achieved such artistic heights. The attraction here is the cathedral’s exterior walls, covered in an amazing profusion of images. The top centre of the north, south and west walls all show
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Alexander Palace
The classical Alexander Palace, built by Quarenghi between 1792 and 1796 for the future Alexander I, is surrounded by the charming Alexander Park. Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, was its main tenant and he made it his residence for much of his reign. Nicholas and his wife Alexa
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Resurrection Hill
This was the location of Tomsk’s original fortress, and the replica of its central wooden spasskaya bashnya (saviors tower) that stands on it today was built in 2004 for the city’s 400th anniversary celebrations. Next to the tower, the History of Tomsk Museum has spouted its own wo
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Cathedral of St Sophia
This is the oldest church in Russia (finished in 1050) and one of the countrys oldest stone buildings. Its the kremlins focal point and you couldnt miss it if you tried – its golden dome positively glows . St Sophia houses many icons dating from the 14th century, but none are as im
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Museum of the World Ocean
Strung along the banks of the Pregolya River are the several ships, a sub, maritime machinery and exhibition halls that make up this excellent museum. The highlight is the handsome former scientific expedition vessel Vityaz, moored alongside the Viktor Patsaev, with its exhibits re
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Alexander Nevsky Monastery
The Alexander Nevsky Monastery – named for the patron saint of St Petersburg – is the citys most ancient and eminent monastery. Peter the Great made a mistake when he founded the Alexander Nevsky Monastery on this spot at the far end of Nevsky pr. He wrongly thought that this was w
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Peter & Paul Fortress
Housing a cathedral where the Romanovs are buried, a former prison and various exhibitions, this large defensive fortress on Zayachy Island is the kernel from which St Petersburg grew into the city it is today. History buffs will love it and everyone will swoon at the panoramic vie
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State Tretyakov Gallery Main Branch
The exotic boyar castle on a little lane in Zamoskvorechie contains the main branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery, housing the world’s best collection of Russian icons and an outstanding collection of other prerevolutionary Russian art. Show up early to beat the queues. The build
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Deputy’s Palace Museum
Tobolsks best museum occupies a beautiful 18th-century former administration on the southwestern edge of the Kremlin. The Romanovs called in here during their brief stint in Tobolsk in 1917, and a section of this remarkably modern museum is devoted to their time in Tobolsk. Tactile
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