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The original wooden palace (tiled as 'an Eighth Wonder of the World') was demolished in 1768, and replaced with a much more modest stone-and-brick structure. - The Moscow Government has completed a full-scale reconstruction in 2010. The rebuilt palace stands approximately 1 kilometer to the south of its original location, in order to preserve the historic foundations. -There are fifteen [http://mgomz.com/category/permanent-expositions Permanent Expositions]: Church of the Ascension (Церковь Вознесения Господня); Milestones in the History of Kolomenskoye (Вехи истории Коломенского), about the history of the Kolomenskoye village and its outskirts from V – III rd millennium BC to the beginning of the 20th century; Palace of the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich (Дворец царя Алексея Михайловича), XVII century; Russian XVII Century Art Treasures, exhibition at the Younger and Middle Tsarevnas’ Tower, Palace of the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich (Сокровища русского искусства. XVII век.); The Honey Kolomenskoye, exposition at the Bee-keeper’s farm (Медовое Коломенское); Peasant’s Farm (Усадьба коломенского крестьянина); Smith’s Yard at the Ethnographic Centre (Усадьба кузнеца); Falconry at the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich Courtyard at the Falconry Yard (Соколиная охота царя Алексея Михайловича); Stable yard (Конюшенный двор); Church of Great Martyr St. George the Victorious (Церковь Святого великомученика Георгия Победоносца из Архангельской области), 1685; Tower of Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery (Проездные ворота Николо-Корельского монастыря), 15th century; Tower of Bratsk Stockaded Fort (Башня Братского острога), 1631 on the Angara River; Tower of Sumskoy Stockaded Fort (Моховая башня Сумского острога), what was part of the defense of North Russian maritime country-side (Pomor’ye) from the end of 16th to the beginning of the 18th century.; Water Mill on the Zhuzha River (Водяная мельница на речке Жуже). - Other sights: Church of Our Lady of Kazan, 17th century; Watertower, 17th century; Front gates, 1671–73; Polkovhichyi chambers, 17th century; Prikaznye chambers, 17th century; Sytny yard, 17th century; Back gates, 17th century; Park pavilion, 1825; Park gates, 19th century; Memorial pole from Shaydorovo village, 19th century; Boris stone from Belarus; Polovets stone idol; Chasovoy pole, 17th century; Peter the Great house (18th century) from North Dvina River; Lion's Gates from the Moscow Kremlin (surviving fragments); Oak-trees grove (one of the oldest oaks in Moscow); Golosov Ravine with sacred stones and springs in it; Dyakovo settlement Archeological site - Part of UNESCO World Heritage List

The six-column portico at the front of the house was designed with a ramp so that carriages with as many as eight horses could come directly to the front door. When the carriage arrived, servants would rush out the front doors and hold the horses while the guests descended.- There are twelve large state rooms, and two smaller ensembles of rooms for residential use. - The vestibule at the front entrance was walled with plaster painted to resemble marble, with vases in niches designed by Johannes Justus. The Reception Room had both an ornate fireplace, typical for Western Europe, and an oven decorated with colored tiles, traditional in Eastern (including Russia) and Northern Europe, showing the two artistic traditions in Russia at the time. The Tapestry Room was the second reception room. It was decorated with 17th-century Flemish tapestries depicting parks and gardens. Between the tapestries, the windows looked out onto the lake and garden of the estate. The State Bedroom Though it has a bed, the state bedroom was never used as a bedroom, but rather as a formal reception room, to impress the guests with the owner's taste. The Cabinet-Bureau was the personal office of the Count, decorated with Dutch style-oak paneling with carved picture motifs, in the style of Peter the Great. Everyday Bedroom was designed for rest. It had a marble-faced fireplace with inserted paintings by French artists, and portraits of the Sheremetev family. The Dancing Hall or hall of mirrors was the largest and most decorated room in the house, with a painted ceiling and mirror-covered walls in white and gold. The Billiards Room features a large billiards table made in England in the 18th century. The Dining Room The paintings and decoration of the dining room stressed the long history and glory of the Sheremetev family. - The Park: created between 1750 and 1780 as a formal Garden à la française, with large ornamental parterres of flowers, carefully trimmed hedges, and alleys which met at either right or diagonal angles, and were ornamented with statues, and lined with either rows of trees trimmed into spheres, large vases; orange trees; or myrtle trees trimmed into cones. -

Already a major tourist attraction in the heyday of the Sovjet Union, the park claims current visitor numbers around 500.000 per weekend, since the major restorations and renewals in recent years. VDNKh now occupies almost 2,5km², housing some 500 permanent structures. There are countless pavilions, representing some of the most exotic corners of the former USSR and different sciences. There are fairy-tale like fountains, lush parks and wide avenues, but also a Cosmonautics museum, a rocket and a Buran spaceсaft. There's a luna park, multiple cinemas and a wide range of festivals. On 26ha of indoor exhibition space, you'll find anything from street art to highlights of the auto-mobile industry or the science behind the magic in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. If you're looking for a more active afternoon, try the skate park, the largest adventure park in the country, the ping-pong playground, the equestrian club or one of the many other sports activities. There are plenty of restaurants around, and the park is served by its own stop on the Moscow metro. Originally, all of the pavilions were to be constructed from wood. In 1959 the park was renamed, - Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (Выставка Достижений Народного Хозяйства Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnovo Khozyaystva) or ВДНХ/VDNKh, - & rebuilt. By 1989 the exhibition had 82 pavilions with the exhibition area of 700,000 square metres. Each pavilion (including the 1939 "regions" example: Leningrad, Armenia, Belarus, Karelia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, North Caucasus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) had been dedicated to a particular industry or a field: the Engineering, the Space, the Atomic Energy, the People's Education, the Radioelectronics & the Soviet Culture Pavilion. In 1992, VDNKh was renamed to All-Russia Exhibition Centre, but the original name was restored in 2014. [http://www.infoservices.com/moscow/map/vvc800.html Map] .

a slab of native copper from Kazakhstan that weighs approximately 500 kilograms, a huge amethyst geode from Brasilia, and a gigantic sample of rock salt. - Planet Earth (Планета Земля). The exposition shows the inner structure of our planet and tells about the origin of rocks, movement of lithosphere plates, and the causes of volcanic ejections and earthquakes. The extensive paleontological collections provide insight into development of our flora and fauna. - Historical Collections, end 18- early 20th centuries ( «Исторические коллекции конца XVIII – начала XX в.в.») of the Late 18th and the Early 20th Centuries. The exposition is a golden reserve of the Museum and shows collections of minerals, rocks, fossil remains. - Cabinet of Geological Curiosities (Геологическая кунсткамера). The exposition represents unusual geological items created by nature-architect, artist and sculptor, beauty and harmony of wonderful natural combinations of colours and forms. - Useful Fossils of Russia (Недра России). The exposition shows mineral wealth of Russia, its amazing diversity of mineral raw materials — ferrous, nonferrous, and rare and noble metals, oil, gas, coal, mining chemical feedstock, building and ceramic raw materials, diamonds, and semiprecious stones. - Geological Sketch of Moscow Surroundings (Геологический очерк окрестностей Москвы). The exposition tells about the history of geological development and opening up of natural resources of Moscow area.

Historically, the hill had great strategic importance, as it commanded the best view of the Russian capital. Its name is derived from the Russian for "to bow down", as everyone approaching the capital from the west was expected to do homage here. In 1812, it was the spot where Napoleon in vain expected the keys to the Kremlin to be brought to him by Russians. - Out of the Victory Park, there is the War museum /see above/. - In the 1960s, started to use this area as an open-air museum dedicated to the Russian victory over Napoleon. The New Triumphal Arch, erected in wood in 1814 and in marble in 1827, was relocated and reconstructed here in 1968. A loghouse, where Kutuzov presided over the Fili conference which decided to abandon Moscow to the enemy, was designated a national monument. The huge panorama "Battle of Borodino" (1910–12) was installed here in 1962. In the 1990s an obelisk was added with a statue of Nike and a monument of St George slaying the dragon. The obelisk's height is exactly 141,8 meters, which is 10 cm for every day of the War. A golden-domed Orthodox church was erected on the hilltop in 1993-95, followed by a memorial mosque and the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue. At the 60th V-day celebrations in 2005, here inaugurated 15 extravagant bronze columns, symbolizing main fronts and navies of the Red Army during the World War II.

- The pilgrims who visit the holy cloister are provided an opportunity of accommodation in the pilgrim’s hotel; donation is RUB500 per day, check-out at 12:00. - Established, Boris Godunov personally laid the foundation stone of its cathedral, consecrated in 1593 to the holy image of Our Lady of the Don. It has a single dome crowning three tiers of zakomara. In the 1670s, they added two symmetrical annexes, and a refectory leading to a tented belltower. The New (or the Great) Cathedral, also dedicated to the Virgin of the Don, was started in 1684 as a votive church of Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna. For the first time in Moscow, the five domes were arranged according to the four corners of the Earth (as was the Ukrainian custom). The Old Believers felt offended by this and called the cathedral "Antichrist's Altar". Eight tiers of its ornate baroque iconostasis were carved by Kremlin masters in 1688–1698. The iconostasis' central piece is a copy of the Virgin of the Don, as painted in the mid-16th century. The cathedral frescoes are the first in Moscow to be painted by a foreigner, Antonio Claudio in 1782–1785. Later the monastery reshaped in the red-and-white Muscovite baroque style. Eight square and four circular towers with red-blood crowns were put up in 1686–1711. The Holy Gates of the monastery (1693) are topped with the Tikhvin church (1713–1714), noted for its wrought iron grille. A lofty belfry was erected over the western gates from 1730–1753. There are two cemeteries.

The interior of the cathedral consists of the central prayer area and several surrounding galleries, with the additions of side altars in the 16th century. The first gallery contains a famous Image of Edessa icon. The gallery is separated by a doorway from the main room, created in the 16th century by Italian architects using a striking azure blue colour with gilt floral ornaments. The door wings are decorated with figures of ancient poets and philosophers. The main vault of the cathedral has a large iconostasis (wall of icons and religious paintings), which includes icons of the 14th to 17th centuries.The fifth (lowest) row is pieced by a silver door, behind which is the old staircase to the Tsar’s personal chambers. Throughout the interior, fragments of murals, painted in 1508 and second half of the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries. These include various biblical themes, heroic figures among other Russian princes and grand dukes. The floor of the altar area, consisting of sheets of agate yellow-red jasper, which was brought from a cathedral in Rostov Velikiy in the 16th century. Behind the altar a large silver reliquary containing the remains are of about 50 saints from different places in the Middle East was discovered in 1894.

In the late 1920s, a new building of the Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine was built on the spot. The wings of the manor house are operated by the Museum of History of Moscow and exhibit various collections, including those of the Museum of Russian Estate Culture. - The Estate Church : The church of the Blachernae Icon of Theotokos is located at the heart of the estate. The first wooden church was built here in 1716 by the Stroganovs in honour of the Blachernae Icon, a Stroganov family patron. The construction of a stone church in the Baroque style began at the end of 1750s. In the 1780s, the church was rebuilt in Neoclassical style. The church has two side altars dedicated to Saints Alexander Nevsky and Sergius of Radonezh; several members of the Golitsyn family are interred at the church. - [http://www.kuzminky.ru/ Other sights]: Egyptian pavilion, Front yard, Barnyard, Orangery, Hospital, Propylaeum, Caverns, House on the dam, Music Pavilion, Stables, Vanny house, Kuzminska ponds, French park, Spring in the park Kuz'minki

Other extant structures of the Court were built by Konstantin Thon and Mikhail Bykovsky in 1839–1859, when the island was converted into an almshouse, and in the 1970s. The Court itself (but not the interiors of the Court buildings) is freely accessible to the public. There is a small exhibition of 17th-century art in the groundfloor of the barbican tower; the tower periodically houses chamber music concerts. Sights in the Park: The Back Gate (1682) is a fine architectural landmark of the area & also there is the Waterworks (Водокачка) from 17th century. - - Bridge Tower (Мостовая башня) 1671 – 1679; The Front gate (Передние ворота); the Back gate (Задние ворота); St. Basil's Cathedral (Покровский собор); Ismailovskaya (Mykolaivskaya) military hospice (Измайловская (Николаевская) военная богадельня), 1835; Forged gates (Чугунные ворота) 1852; Forged fountain (Чугунный фонтан) 19th century; Commandant's House (Комендантский дом); North Building almshouses (Северный корпус богадельни).

The Ugreshi Monastery was one of the walled abbeys defending approaches to the Russian capital from the south. - A late legend attributes its foundation to Dmitry Donskoy who, on his way to the Kulikovo Field, is supposed to have made a stay there and determined to give a decisive battle to the Tatars after seeing an image of St. Nicholas in a pious dream for this reason founded here the monastery. - Tsar Alexis habited here several times a year. - The great katholikon (main church) of the monastery was built to a Russian-Byzantine design by Alexander Kaminsky between 1880 and 1894. It is one of the largest churches in the Moscow region and has a set of new frescoes dating from 2009. - After the Russian Revolution, the monastery were given over to a children labour colony in 1920. The monastery fully restored and operates several museums, including one dedicated to Nicholas II of Russia. There is a new seminary on the grounds.

The paintings exposed at IRRA offer a unique opportunity to get acquainted with important stages of the history of Soviet society. Now IRRA’s collection is considered to be one of the best in the world. - IRRA is located in one of ancient buildings of Moscow cotton print factory in Zamoskvorechye opposite to the Moscow New-Spassky monastery. After re-planning and restoration of outer walls of the factory building constructed at the end of the XIX century, museum premises have been equipped with the most up-to-date engineering and professional museum storage equipment. Now the equipment of the building meets the advanced standards specified for the largest museums of the world. Since December, 2011 the exposition of IRRA is available for the visitors from Russia and abroad, who are interested in cultural tradition of national Realist school.

The upper, unheated summer church of Dormition of our Lady, was completed in 1700. The five-domed cathedral is 29 meters from ground level to the base of a cross. It used to be called Little Dormition Cathedral, as if second only to the Dormition Cathedral in Kremlin; - Resurrection Church, completed in 1650s on early 16th century foundations; - Metropolitan's Chamber, 1655-1670; - Metropolitan's Gallery, connecting the Chambers to Cathedral, with gates and the Teremok tower above them, 1693-1694, by architects Osip Startsev and Illarion Kovalyov, with artwork tiles by Stepan Ivanov; - Riverside Dormitory, 1719 and a row of small 19th century wooden houses. - Photography only with prior consent of the clergy

Famous people buried there include Anton Chekhov, Nickolai Gogol, Konstantine Stanislavski, Nikita Khrushchev, Raisa Gorbachev (the former President's wife), and Boris Yeltsin. - Churches: Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk (Смоленский собор Божией Матери Одигитрии), Church of the Assumption (церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы), Church of the Transfiguration (церковь Преображения Господня, Крестовая), Baptised Prince Vladimir Church(церковь святой равноапостольной в. князя Владимира с крестильней), St. Ambrose Church (церковь свт. Амвросия Медиоланского), Mother of God's Intercession Church (церковь Покрова Божией Матери), Prokhorovikh tomb-chapel (часовня-усыпальница Прохоровых).

- The second oldest monument (1504–1506) in the abbey is a spacious refectory, the third largest such structure after those in the Palace of Facets and Joseph-Volotsky Monastery. The adjacent baroque church was commissioned by Eudoxia Lopukhina in 1694 to commemorate the birth of her son, Tsarevich Alexis, and contains a burial vault of the Lopukhin family. - Massive 17th-century walls and towers are reminiscent of the period when the monastery defended the eastern approaches against the Moscow Kremlin. In 1795, they started a Neoclassical belltower, one of the tallest in Moscow. This astonishing belfry was destroyed in 1929–1932, and its bricks were subsequently reused in construction of nearby buildings.

The building appears to be three stories, but is actually two. The upper floor has two sets of windows. The west building of the Palace held state reception halls and the imperial family's private chambers. - Nowadays, the whole Grand Kremlin Palace’s Complex, besides the Armoury, houses the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation, though the current president does not actually reside there and only uses it for state ceremonies. May only be visited on guided tours conducted by approved tour companies, and slots on such tours are limited and sell out fast.

In the center of the museum is the Hall of Glory, a white marble room which features the names of over 11,800 of the recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union distinction. Below lies the Hall of Remembrance and Sorrow, which honors Soviet people who died in the war. There are exhibits about the war, including dioramas depicting major battles, photographs of wartime activities, weapons and munitions, uniforms, awards, newsreels, letters from the battlefront, and model aircraft. Also there is an electronic "memory book" which attempts to record the name and fate of every Russian soldier who died in World War II.

- With an outer perimeter of 2235m, the Kremlin appears as a loose triangle, deviating from the geometric ideal on the southern side where instead of a straight line, it repeats the contours on the original hill on which the Kremlin rests. Some places ranges from no more than 5 metres quadrupling to 19m elsewhere. The thickness of the walls also varies from 3.5 to 6.5m. The top of the walls, along their entire length, have outwardly-invisible battle platforms which also range from 2 to 4.5m in width (in proportion to the thickness). A total of 1045 double-horned notched "teeth" crown the top of the walls, with a height ranging from 2 to 2.5m and thickness from 65 to 75cm.

- Notable items include a longboat excavated from the banks of the Volga River, gold artifacts of the Scythians, birch-bark scrolls of Novgorod, manuscripts going back to the sixth century, Russian folk ceramics, and wooden objects. The library boasts the manuscripts of the Chludov Psalter (860s), Svyatoslav's Miscellanies (1073), Mstislav Gospel (1117), Yuriev Gospel (1119), and Halych Gospel (1144). The total number of objects in the museum's collection comes to four millions. (If your time allowing spend here a half or a full day). ☎ 692-6817, 692-3731 (excursions).

- The mansion, being at the same time a town manor, has a flat-topped lay-out with a court of honor opened towards the entrance. The facade looking on to the Mokhovaya Street is characterized by linear expansion. The arrangement centrifugally unwraps around and above. Two one-storey tunnels run to the right and to the left of the central cube ending in two-storied Service wings. The main building has colonnaded porticos on both sides. The building is topped with a cylindrical belvedere.

Most of the street's architecture doesn't actually have much history to it, though along the way you will find Russia's first, and the world's busiest, McDonalds. The statue of Pushkin at Pushkinskaya Square is a very popular meeting point. Walk its length. From Red Square to Belorusski Train Station is about one hour and is a great way to see the most famous street in Moscow. Take a peek inside the Yeliseev Grocery Store, Moscow's answer to Harrod's food halls, to see the restored ornate interior.

From 1547 to 1896 it was where the Coronation of the Russian monarch was held and it is the burial place for most of the Moscow Metropolitans and Patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. A tremendous 6 pillared building with 5 apses and 5 domes. It made extensive use of limestone masonry on a high limestone base, and was laid out as a three nave church with a vaulted cross-dome. Inside, the church decoration is dominated by its fresco painting. The huge iconostasis dates from 1547, but its two highest tiers are later additions from 1626 and 1653.

- A statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the precursor of astronautics, is located in front of the obelisk. Both sides of the monument base, in their front parts, are decorated with haut- and bas-reliefs depicting men and women of the space program: scientists, engineers, workers, notable figures include a computer programmer holding a punched tape, a cosmonaut wearing a space suit, and Laika, the first space dog.

The flame illuminates a bronze inscription "Имя твоё неизвестно, подвиг твой бессмертен" ("Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal"). The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Leningrad, where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Field of Mars. To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: "1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945".

wards, badges, memorial medals, orders; porcelain, glass and ceramics; costume; accessoiries; furniture; watches. - Other units of Moscow Museum: Manor Princes Golitsyn, Servant Wing see Moscow Outskirts, Manor Princes Golitsyn, (Stables) & Children's Museum Center. See Moscow Outskirts, A. Mireka, Russian harmonic Museum ; Lefortovo History Museum See Moscow Outskirts, Museum of Archaeology (Музей археологии Москвы), ☎ +7 495 739 0008

Parts of it: the huge 18th-century bell-tower; the Sheremetev sepulchre in the church of the Sign, the large five-domed katholikon (1645-49) with frescoes by the finest Muscovite painters of the 17th century; The Pokrovsky (Intercession) church at the refectory; The House of Loaf-Giving; a hospital; monks' living quarters and the palace of Patriarch Filaret.

The project ran into engineering and geological difficulties (the area used to be a swamp), then the War intervened, and the place was ceded to a year-round open-air swimming pool. The pool was razed and the cathedral rebuilt only after the fall of the Soviet Union, in the mid-nineties. There is an extensive museum underneath the cathedral documenting its history (the original was started in 1839 and consecrated in 1883).

- The highlights include objects and sculpture by Armand, the “Sun Disk” by the famous Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, the installation “CIS Ant Farm” by the Japanese conceptualist Yukinory Yanagi. The masters such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Rufino Tamayo, are represented by their lithographs. Famous about the collection of Russian avant-garde art.

There are other classicism style sights in the Liublino estate: the steward’s house, an outhouse, household premises, a fragment of the palace greenhouse and the stable. An English landscape park was laid out around the palace, on the high hilly river bank. A large pond arranged in the Golyad River bed.

- The project applied on larger scale Le Corbusier’s architectural principles: pilotis, curtain-wall façade, free floor plan, ribbon windows and flat roof. The glass façade was intended to include an innovative heating and ventilation system. A fine piece of Constructivist architecture.

The new monument is located in a slope, made use of it in such a way that, from one side, the emperor is elevated on a pedestal and, from the other side, it seems that the emperor is standing right on the ground, portraying a man who is just standing and looking into the distance, facing the cathedral.

Majority of the architectural monuments have already undergone restoration, Grand Palace having completed by 2007. Exhibitions and expositions of the museum demonstrate various pages of Tsaritsyno history and rich collections of arts and crafts.-

The five-domed katholikon was erected in the mid-1850s to Mikhail Bykovsky's Byzantine Revival designs. It is dedicated to the Renewal of the Temple of the Resurrection in Jerusalem. Its popular from the relics of St. Matrona of Moscow, a very popular saint.

It actually contains two churches: a winter Intercession Church in the basement and a summer, unheated Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands above it. Restored in 1981, painted pale red, although the original color scheme remains disputed. The earliest layer of paint uncovered by restoration is pale blue; later layers are either yellow or red.

- Today, the ensemble of the Orphanage houses the Academy of Missile Forces and Russian Academy of Medicine. - he Orphanage was designed as a chain of three square-shaped buildings: the eastern wing for the girls, the western wing for the boys and the central administration block connecting them.

Today headquarters of the Border Guard Service of Russia, and houses the Lubyanka prison and one directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). In addition a museum of the KGB (now called Историко-демонстрационный зал ФСБ России, Historical-demonstration hall of the Russian FSB) was opened.

Up to 3,000 people could live and work there for 90 days without assistance from the outside world, thanks to stores of food and medicine, an air recycling system and diesel generators.

- There are reliefs on the pedestal of the monument: Frontside: high relief depicts patriotic citizens who donate their property for the benefit of the motherland. Left - Martos sculptor himself, who gives fatherland two sons. - Backside upper relief: depicts Prince Pozharsky, drove the Poles from Moscow.

It belongs to a numerous class of bonfire temples – church buildings without three internal load-bearing columns, crowned with layers of small circular kokoshnik-type gables, decorated by angels or seraphs.

- In 1908-12, Aleksey Shchusev designed the Church of Saints Martha and Mary and the Holy Protection Cathedral, both structures being Art Nouveau renderings of a medieval Novgorod architectural type. The cathedral's snow-white walls are adorned with carved crosses. The interior contains frescoes and mosaics.

Two hipped roofs with two-headed eagles were added, and the Icon of Christ's Resurrection was placed above the gate The gate adjoins the ornate building of the Moscow City Hall to the east and the State Historical Museum to the west. Just in front of the chapel is a bronze plaque marking kilometre zero of the Russian highway system.

- Iver Cathedral (Iverski-sobor, Иверский собор); Gate Church of the Mother of God icon from Tolga (Надвратная церковь Толгской иконы Божией Матери), 1733; Temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (Храм Преподобного Сергия Радонежского); Nicholas and Assumption Temple (Храм Никольский и Успенский)

The fifth tent is a belltower placed between the church and refectory. The porch also terminates in a pyramidal roof.

The windows are framed by lush carved architraves, under false gables conducted wide frieze, corners decorated columns with separated semicircles apses. There are a dozen special icons, showing only for a day in may, jun, jul or dec

The 18th-century sculpture decorations inside the Church, - supporting the dome,- mainly in the forechurch and choir lofts are very sumptuous. An altar plafond is encircled with fruit and flower swags with four angels standing in the dome corners.

A large part of this section is Russian stone art 18-20th centuries including some thirty items designed by Peter Carl Fabergé, including the last Fabergé egg, the Constellation egg.

The collection includes models, displays, documents, photographs, uniforms and items of railway equipment.

In 1773 in the refectory of the church was built a chapel of Simeon and Anna the Prophetess. The bell tower built in 1813. In the WW II. was launched production of ammunition.

Amateur photography and videotaping is prohibited indoors and free outdoors.- Part of UNESCO World Heritage List

After all, just the palace interiors shows the 1650s features. The monument presents mostly baroque style elements.

The Lenin State Library stored its books in the building throughout the Soviet period.

On the third floor of the building is a small chapel founded in the 19th Century.

It weighs around 1,000 tons and contains 600 tons of stainless steel, bronze and copper

- The library includes more than 4,000 books now available in four languages.

Although from the façade, it appears to be a three-story rectangular building from the outside, it is actually a one-story building with a semi-basement.

The building is also used as a museum.

The main wooden palace, built in 1792-1798 around a theater hall, with adjacent Egyptian and Italian pavilions, a 17th-century Trinity church, and fragments of the old Ostankino park with a replica of Milovzor folly.

Inside is a museum, although it looks best from the outside, but if you have the time, take a peek inside.

"Spasopeskovskaya" meant "Saviour on the Sands", referring to the sandy soil of the neighborhood.

- Designed by known Moscow architect Mikhail Belov, Maxim Kharitonov and sculptor Mikhail Dronov

The building was erected in the so-called Russian Art Nouveau style.