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Stolby Nature Reserve
Krasnoyarsk’s biggest draw are the fingers and towers of volcanic rock called stolby . These poke above the woods in the 17,000-hectare Stolby Nature Reserve (Zapovednik Stolby). To reach the main concentration of rock formations, follow the track (7km long) near Hotel Snezhnaya Do
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St Sofia’s Cathedral
Powerful five-domed St Sofia’s Cathedral has a soaring interior smothered with beautiful 1680s frescoes. The astonishingly tall iconostasis is filled with darkly brooding saintly portraiture.The massive stone cathedral was erected in just two years (1568–70) on the direct orders of
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St Isaacs Cathedral
The golden dome of St Isaac’s Cathedral dominates the St Petersburg skyline. Its obscenely lavish interior is open as a museum, although services are held in the cathedral on major religious holidays. Most people bypass the museum to climb the 262 steps to the kolonnada (colonnade)
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Novgorod State United Museum
This must-see museum houses three strikingly comprehensive exhibitions covering the history of Veliky Novgorod, Russian woodcarving and Russian icons. The latter contains one of the worlds largest collections of icons, with around 260 pieces placed in chronological order, allowing
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Mirozhsky Monastery
The attraction here is the Unesco-listed Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour (Спасо-Преображенский Собор Мирожского монастыря), with its 12th-century frescoes that are considered one of the most complete representations of the biblical narrative to have survived the Mon
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Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
This fantastic contemporary art museum has made this far-flung and otherwise totally dead area of Vasilyevsky Island a destination in itself. The museum divides neatly into two parts, spread over five floors. On the left-hand side is the permanent collection of some 2000 works of R
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Romanov Death Site
The massive Byzantine-style Church upon the Blood (Храм на Крови) dominates this site where Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and children were murdered by Bolsheviks on the night of 16 July 1918. Nearby, the pretty wooden Chapel of the Revered Martyr Grand Princess Yelizaveta Fyodorovna
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National Museum
One of Tuva’s ‘must sees’, the National Museum’s huge modern home contains the usual arrangements of stuffed animals, WWII artefacts and dusty minerals, as well as more impressive halls dedicated to shamanism, Buddhist art and traditional Tuvan sports. However all of this is just a
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Gallery of European & American Art of the 19th & 20th Centuries
This branch of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts contains a famed assemblage of French Impressionist works, based on the collection of two well-known Moscow art patrons, Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. It includes representative paintings by Degas, Manet, Renoir and Pisarro, with a
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N.K. Rerikh Museum
This museum is dedicated to the works and life of the painter Nikolai Rerikh (Nicholas Roerick), beloved in these parts because of his life-long passion for Altai. While the many paintings on display are reproductions, they provide a thorough synopsis of his lifes work, and you can
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Assumption Cathedral
On the northern side of Sobornaya ploshchad, with five golden helmet domes and four semicircular gables facing the square, the Assumption Cathedral is the focal church of prerevolutionary Russia and the burial place of most of the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church from the 1320s
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Susaninskaya Ploshchad
Picturesque Susaninskaya pl was built as an ensemble under Catherine the Great’s patronage after a fire in 1773. It was nicely revamped on the occasion of Romanov dynastys 400-year anniversary in 2013. Its centrepiece is the immense Trading Arcade which used to house hundreds of sh
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Decembrist Museum
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Catherine Park
Around the Catherine Palace extends the lovely Catherine Park. The main entrance is on Sadovaya ul, next to the Palace Chapel . The park extends around the ornamental Great Pond and contains an array of interesting buildings, follies and pavilions.Near the Catherine Palace, the Cam
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Pskov National Museum of History, Architecture & Art
As you can guess from its title, this museum, spread over several buildings, includes history and art exhibitions. The architecture bit comes from the museum’s key block – the Pogankin Chambers (Поганкины палаты) – the fortress-like house and treasury of a 17th-century merchant. Ar
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Kremlin
Kazan’s striking kremlin is home to government offices, pleasant parks, museums, the enormous Kul Sharif Mosque and other religious buildings. Among the highlights are the Hermitage Kazan gallery and the Tatarstan Museum of Natural History. Some of the white limestone kremlin walls
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Hermitage Storage Facility
Guided tours of the Hermitage’s state-of-the-art restoration and storage facility are highly recommended. This is not a formal exhibition as such, but the guides are knowledgable and the examples chosen for display (paintings, furniture and carriages) are wonderful.The storage faci
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Gorky Park
Moscows main escape from the city within the city is not your conventional expanse of nature preserved deep inside an urban jungle. It is not a fun fair either, though it used to be one. Its official name says it all – Maxim Gorkys Central Park of Culture & Leisure. Thats exact
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Stalins Dacha
Stalins dacha, Zelenaya Roscha, dates from 1937. It is an amazing place, built to accommodate a small, private man who caused death and misery to millions of Russians. Tours are in Russian but the patriotic guides (ours was ex-KGB) speak some English. From Sochi take any Adler-boun
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St Basils Cathedral
At the southern end of Red Square stands the icon of Russia: St Basil’s Cathedral. This crazy confusion of colours, patterns and shapes is the culmination of a style that is unique to Russian architecture. In 1552 Ivan the Terrible captured the Tatar stronghold of Kazan on the Feas
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