This is the best way to feel the city, see the rhythm of Moscow. We will walk by the old city center. There are lot᾿s of pedestrian streets in old center that are closed for driving, so the only way to see them is a walking tour.
The tour includes:
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a professional licensed guide
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pick up at the hotel
Red Square
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The main Square of Russian Federation, UNESCO protected
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You will get answers to some traditional questions why it is called «red»
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Where the soviet leaders stood when military parades
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Where the burial place of Josef Stalin is
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Where the burial place of Yuri Gagarin is
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St. Basil᾿s cathedral
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Outside, if inside see notes below
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It was erected on the orders of the first Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible, UNESCO protected
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Why is it also called Intercesion cathedral?
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Is it truth that the architects who constructed this cathedral were blinded?
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Why was it covered with brick pattern after being completed the construction work?
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Mausoleum of Lenin
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Outside, if inside see notes below
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Why was embalmed the body of Lenin?
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Was Stalin embalmed when he died?
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Are Moscow authorities going to bury the body of Lenin?
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Gum Department Store
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The unique Trading Rows in the world
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When is GUM absolutely closed for visitors?
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Who sponsored the construction work of this sumptuous building in the late XIXth century?
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When was the time when flats were located inside GUM?
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Where was a farewell ceremony with Stalin’s second wife when she died?
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Nikolskaya street
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One of the oldest Moscow streets.
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Why does this street bear the name of St.Nicolas?
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Where was the cemetery found on this street not long ago?
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Where was the canteen protected by FSB (former-KGB) located and what was it’s name?
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The building of former-KGB
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One very famous soviet joke says that it’s possible to see the Far East from this place.
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What is the meaning of CHEKA, KGB and FSB?
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Whose monument stood on the square in front of the main facade?
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What is the history of the name of Lubianskaya square?
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Kuznetskiy Most Street
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The street keeps an atmosphere of old Moscow center
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What does Kuznetskiy Most mean?
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Where does Neglinnaya river flow until today?
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Where is the restaurant mentioned by Alexander Pushkin in one of his poems located?
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Petrovka Street
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Petrovskiy Monastery and Petrovskiye Trading Rows
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Where was the first traffic light installed in Moscow?
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Where is the museum of GULAG?
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Where did people buy the best French wine in Petrovka at the beginning of the 20th century?
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Dmitrovka Street
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Upper Chamber of Parlament called Federal Council, the House of Sindicats (XVIIIth century)
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Where was the first Ball of Natasha Rostova ? (“War and piece” L.Tolstoy”) and the first ball of Tatiana Larina (“Eugeniy Oneguin” A.Pushkin).
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Where was the granddaughter of Santa Claus introduced to moscovites for the first time?
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Where is the first electric power station situated in Moscow?
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Theatre Square
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Four buildings are occupied by theatres including the main building of Bolshoy theatre, the main opera and ballet stage.
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Where is the oldest fontain in Moscow that had water coming from a source located 20 km far from this square?
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Ohotniy Ryad Street
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Lower Chamber of Parlament – Duma
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Where was Karl Marks avenue located?
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What is Gosplan and five-year plans?
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Where was the first church dismantled by communists in 1922?
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Stoleshnikov side-street
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The fashionable street of Moscow and the most expensive one.
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Which street is considered to be the second most expensive in the world after Camps of Elisees in Paris?
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Stoleshnikov side-street was a place of leaving of a famous and respectable writer for Moscovites Guiliarovskiy who described Moscow city life in the late XIXth century in his book “Moscow and moscovites”.
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Kamergerskiy side-street
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This side-street is a living place of the main caracter of the novel “Doctor Zhivago” written by Boris Pasternak. Pasternak was granted a Nobel Prize in literature.
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Leo Tolstoy worked here on his novel “War and peace”.
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Precisely in this side-streat was found the manuscript (it was considered as lost) of the novel “Quiet flows the Don” written by Mikhail Sholohov who was granted a Nobel Prize.
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Tverskaya Street
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The main street of Moscow existing from the XIIth century.
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Mayor᾿s department and the monument to the founder of Moscow.
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Why did Grigoriy Belinskiy (Russian literature critic) write that this street was narrow and curve?
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How was it possible to move the buildings in the street?
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What is the connection between red granite covering some buildings at Tverskaya Street and Hitler?
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Manezh Square
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The cupulas on the floor are windows of an underground department store.
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Why were many squares formed next to the Kremlin and Kitai-Gorodskaya walls?
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Alexander Garden
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Tumb of the Unknown Soldier
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Where is the sacred soil of hero-cities?
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Which names are written on the stella of the Garden?
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Who was Patriarch Germogen?
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Kremlin
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Outside. The fortress where Russian Tsars and Church leaders lived.
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What does the word “Kremlin” mean?
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Where is a natural hill leading to Neglinnaya River?
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Where is Neglinnaya river?
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Drop off to the hotel or another wished place
RATES
| Number of participants | Total, $ | Total, RUB
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| 1 adult | 130 | 10140 |
| 2 adults | 150 | 11700 |
| 3 adults | 165 | 12870 |
| 4 adults | 180 | 14040 |
| 5 adults | 195 | 15210 |
| 6 adults | 210 | 16380 |
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Note: 1 $ equals 78 rubles
