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Although the city of Moscow is territorially within the Moscow oblast, it has a special administrative status.

The heart of Moscow is the Kremlin, flanked by Red Square which is crowned by the unique and beautiful St. Basil's Cathedral. Don't miss the world famous Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre. For Egyptian Art and French Impressionism visit the Pushkin Fine Art Museum.

Shopping in Moscow: Tverskaya St, Arbat Street - Russia's Covent Garden, the underground shopping arcade in Manezhnaya Square and the famous GUM shopping arcade on Red Square.


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Moscow 20 Novoslobodskaya st., Moscow Sheremetievo, Moscow Domodedovo Airport, international arrivals

Hotels in Moscow

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Travel Guides Moscow / Related books

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Moscow - Eyewitness Travel Guide 
A city of opulent architecture, striking art, and history of epic proportions, Russia's cultural showplace is vividly depicted in DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: Moscow. The guide covers the city's five main sections with street-by-street maps and 3-D aerial illustrations that lead you to many magnificent sights. View major works of Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Botticelli at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Examine art collected by the tsars and their families at the State Armory. Additional sections highlight the Bolshoy Theatre, St. Basil's Cathedral, and the Tretyakov Gallery. In the Beyond Moscow chapter explore the Novodevichiy Center, the elaborate gardens at the Kuskove Estate, and the village of Kolomenskoe. The guide also provides an enthralling overview to the city's turbulent history, outstanding cultural contributions, remarkable people, and regional cuisine [ This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title ].
Turtleback: 264 pages; Publisher: DK Travel; Rev Upd edition (January 15, 2007); Language: English; ISBN-13: 978-0756624385
The Rough Guide to Moscow - by Dan Richardson
The Rough Guide to Moscow is the insider's handbook to Russia's fastest-changing city. The guide includes extensive coverage of all the sights, from the Kremlin cathedrals and palaces to Stalin skyscrapers and the KGB museum. There are lively reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, plus the low-down on the ballet, concert-going and clubbing. Coverage is also given to nearby attractions including Lenin's estate, the medieval town of Suzdal and the Trinity Monastery. This new edition also includes a full-colour introduction with over 30 photos of the best activities and sights Moscow has to offer. Finally there is informed background on Moscow's history, politics and culture, from Ivan the Terrible to Putin and Tchaikovsky to Tatu.
Paperback 496 pages (April 28, 2005); Publisher: Rough Guides, ISBN: 978-1843532828
Moscow - Lonely Planet City Guide - by Mara Vorhees (Author)
Paperback: 258 pages; Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 3rd edition (March 2006); Language: English; ISBN-13: 978-1740598156
Discovering the Moscow Countryside: An Illustrated Guide to Russia's Heartland 
By Kathleen Berton Murrell (Author)
Product Description : Discovering the Moscow Countryside is a fascinating voyage into the history, architecture, people, and archaeology of the country that surrounds Moscow. The towns and villages dotted around this wooded landscape are rich in associations. Wave after wave of invaders--Tatars, Poles, French, and Germans--sought to conquer Russia through these lands. Now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of the beautiful monasteries and little ruined country churches are coming back to life. This is also the land of the dacha--that special haven to which all city dwellers, at the first melting of the snow, escape: whether it be to a wooden mansion or a tiny room lost in the woods. This book is a practical guide for the tourist keen to explore this fascinating area of Russia, as well as for the curious armchair traveler.
Paperback: 288 pages; Publisher: I. B. Tauris (December 7, 2001); Language: English; ISBN-13: 978 -1860646737

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 Moscow Airport  -  Vnukovo Airport  -  11 kilometers from Moscow

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Public transport Moscow
The fastest, cheapest and easiest way to get around in Moscow is on the metro, a tourist attraction in itself with lots of chandeliers and marble, in fact 44 of the stations are architectural landmarks. See hMetro [ russian language ] and map of the Moscow metro 

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The heart of Moscow is the Kremlin, flanked by Red Square which is crowned by the unique and beautiful St. Basil's Cathedral. Don't miss the world famous Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre. For Egyptian Art and French Impressionism visit the Pushkin Fine Art Museum.

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 Shopping in Moscow:
Tverskaya St, Arbat Street - Russia's Covent Garden, the underground shopping arcade in Manezhnaya Square and the famous GUM shopping arcade on Red Square.
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 Russian Cuisine
Welcome to the world of authentic Russian cuisine and cooking recipes, the place for lovers of delicious dishes and culture of the Rus. In their Russian recipes cookbook you'll find a great number of palatable dishes (hors-d'oeuvres, main courses, desserts, beverages etc.) from ancient times to the present. With their help you'll taste and find out tales about the most popular ethnic dishes of Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Georgian, Armenian and other cuisines.

History of Moscow

Founded in 1147 Moscow boasts a stark mix of classic Russian architecture with mansions and palaces of merchant class of Imperial Russia and Lenin and Stalin's avant-garde and neo-classicist monuments erected to honor the power of the people

Moscow: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene Illustrated Histories) - by Kathleen Murrell
As capital of the largest country in the world, Moscow, has experienced both glorious and turbulent times. Home to the Tsars and the site of the Bolshevik Revolution, it has also persisted as a thriving centre for culture and the arts. This volume succinctly recounts this city's political, economic, and cultural history, spanning the rise and fall of Imperial Russian and the Soviet Union up to today's era of democracy. Featuring 50 illustrations and photographs, this book is the perfect introduction to a city that continues to play a major part in world events.
Publisher: Hippocrene Books, Inc
 Bucknell University - Russian History
This page attempts to capture the flavor of the rich diversity evolving over Russian history and hence depends as much on the endeavors of others as those of the Russian Studies Program.

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Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin 
By Catriona Kelly
Advice literature (etiquette manuals, guides to hygiene and house management, and treatises on upbringing) enjoyed massive popularity in Russia between the late eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. It reflected changing attitudes to appropriate behaviour in private and public, to the acquisition of possessions, and not least to national identity (for many Russians, reading how-to books was seen as a way of 'learning how to be a Westerner'). Written or translated by members of the cultural elite trying to encourage what they saw as civilized behaviour, advice literature was also a conduit for changing views of mass readers and of their place in society. This important and engaging book is the first systematic exploration of this hitherto neglected genre of popular printed text. It examines the evolution of advice literature from the Enlightenment to the post -Soviet era, from translations of Fenelon and Madame de Lambert in the 1760s and of Samuel Smiles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to tracts by Gogol and Tolstoi, Soviet pamphlets on 'how to be cultured', and post-Soviet guides to 'window treatments'. It draws on a huge range of sources - memoirs, 'novelised conduct books' such as Anna Karenina, parody advice literature, letters, and reviews - to examine the broader significance of how-to books, and their relationship with daily life (byt) as construct and as lived reality. The result is a book that not only makes a major contribution to the study of popular culture, but also throws an unexpected and revealing light on Russian history more broadly.
Hardcover: 488 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 24, 2001); Language: English; ISBN-13: 978-0198159872
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Moscow Oblast consists of the following districts: Balashikhinsky, Chekhovsky, Dmitrovsky, Domodedovsky, Istrinsky, Kashirsky, Khimkinsky, Klinsky, Kolomensky, Krasnogorsky, Leninsky, Lotoshinsky, Lukhovitsky, Lyuberetsky, Mozhaysky, Mytishchensky, Naro-Fominsky, Noginsky, Odintsovsky, Orekhovo-Zuyevsky, Ozersky, Pavlovo-Posadsky, Podolsky, Pushkinsky, Ramensky, Ruzsky, Serebryano-Prudsky, Sergiyevo-Posadsky, Serpukhovsky, Shakhovskoy, Shatursky, Shchelkovsky, Solnechnogorsky, Stupinsky, Taldomsky, Volokolamsky, Voskresensky, Yegoryevsky and Zaraysky