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Narzan Baths
The eerie-looking Narzan Baths date from 1901 and could easily double as the setting for a horror film. Unfortunately, the baths have been closed for years. Fortunately, workers hammering away inside the building assured us they are due to be reopened soon.
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Goncharov Museum
Tthe writer Ivan Goncharov grew up in this three-storey house, which today is one of Ulyanovsks most important museums. It tells the story of the house itself (dating from the late 18th century, with lots of 19th-century period-piece rooms), the writer and his era.
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Fine Arts Museum
The Fine Arts Museum has several rotating and permanent exhibits ranging from ornate window frames saved from the city’s old wooden houses to tiny, intricately carved bone figures produced by Siberian artists. It gets expensive if you want to see all of the exhibits, however.
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Museum of Tver Life
This museum is split across two adjacent houses: one is set up to display the life of wealthy merchants; the other has more general exhibits, including a reconstruction of a wooden dwelling typical of country folk, plus beautiful examples of embroidery and traditional costumes.
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Kul Sharif Mosque
The Kul Sharif Mosque was completed in 2005 and is named after the imam who died defending the city against the troops of Ivan the Terrible in 1552. The museum inside tells the story of Islam, especially on the Volga, and includes manuscripts, some pieces of furniture and womens co
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Smolensk Flax Museum
Flax production developed from the Middle Ages as one of Smolensk’s main industries, as the moderate climate sustained soil ideal for growing the plant. Exhibits and hands-on demonstrations will give you an idea of how the process works and of the lovely products that can be made f
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Fabergé Museum
Book by email at least five days in advance for one of the hour-long tours of the magnificently restored Shuvalovsky Palace, home to the largest collection of pieces manufactured by the jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé (including nine imperial Easter eggs) and fellow master craftsmen an
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Art Gallery
The gallery is usually housed in Catherine the Greats 1775 Road Palace (which is being very slowly restored), but for now youll find the collection in a less-imposing business centre just out of the town centre. Theres a bit of everything here, from folk art to furniture, and 14th-
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Museum of Military Hardware
Located by the river in Victory Park (Парк Победы), this open-air museums display of WWII tanks and rocket launchers conjures up images of Soviet-era military parades. Kids love to clamber all over the tanks. The walk to the museum takes you past a host of funfair rides and cheap a
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Dostoevsky House Museum
The author’s family lived on the 1st floor of this riverside dacha, which contains many original pieces. Dostoevsky’s bookcase is still stocked, and his desk has copies from his mazelike drafts – you can see his doodles on the pages. An English-language handout available at the tic
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Ivan Bunin Museum
The writer, poet and 1933 Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) spent some of his childhood in Yelets, studying at the town’s gymnasium. This small museum chronicles his life and works. Check out the wall map that has pins marking the places he visited – Mogadishu, Sri Lanka and Sp
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National Centre of Contemporary Art
Situated in the former arsenal on the right after you enter the main gate of the kremlin, this top-ranking gallery has changing exhibitions of international and Russian contemporary artists. From early 2015 the complete arsenal will have been restored and the centre will also have
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Samara Art Museum
Easily the most important cultural attraction in the city, the Samara Art Museum exhibits mainly Russian art, including works by those artists who came to the region to paint. Look for Boyarishina, given by Surikov to a local doctor who treated him when he fell ill. The museum also
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Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM
The brainchild and legacy of its former curator Marat Guelman, who was sacked amid fallout over an exhibition satirising the Sochi Winter Olympics of 2014, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is housed inside the former river station hall on the banks of the Kama River and ha
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EK Plotnikova House
This historical building houses an impressive collection of Russian art from the 18th to the 20th centuries and charts the switch to critical realism in the late 19th century, when peasants and other common people became the subjects of paintings. Highlights include wintry landscap
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USSR Museum
While the collection of 70s Soviet bric-a-bric in this basement museum isnt particularly original, you get free rein over the place, which means photo ops galore. Dress yourself up (dont worry, its allowed!) as a Soviet apparatchik, country dyevushka (girl) or Great Patriotic War s
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Museum Estate of Simbirsk Urban Life in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Among the museums dedicated to the historic quarter of town known as old Simbirsk, this is easily the most interesting. It consists of a main museum building with period furnishings and pictures of old Simbirsk, and a large yard with a series of small wooden buildings such as a kit
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Mt Mashuk
There are various sites spread along the base of Mt Mashuk, some of which require long walks or a taxi to reach. Closer to the city centre, a cable car whisks you to the top of Mt Mashuk for a great panorama. The best views of Mt Elbrus are early in the morning. If you’re hoofing i
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Trinity Cathedral
This blindingly white 72m-high structure can be seen from miles away on a clear day. Consecrated in 1699, it’s the fourth version of a church to have stood on this spot since the early 11th century, when a wooden one was commissioned by Princess Olga, an early convert to the Orthod
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Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour on Ilyina Street
This compact church is famous for housing the only surviving frescoes by legendary Byzantine painter Theophanes the Greek (they came close to extinction when the church served as a Nazi machine-gun nest). Restoration has exposed as much of the frescoes as possible, though they are
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