During this big Moscow city tour you will see and enjoy the most famous and interesting attractions of the Russian capital, its avenues and squares, modern scyscrapers and its predecessors, Stalin’s «vysotki», the White House, great panoramas of the Kremlin, refined Bolshoi Theatre, the main building of Moscow University at the Vorobievy Gory (the Sparrow Hills), a former KGB building at Lubyanka street, the memorial complex dedicated to the Victory in the 2nd World War on Mount Poklonnaya and much more.

You will visit inside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the largest Orthodox Cathedral in Russia that has a very big and challenging history. Being constructed in the nineteenth century it was the main Cathedral of the Russian Empire but at Soviet times it was demolished and rebuilt at the end of the twentieth century.

You can’t imagine the Russian capital without iconic Red Square, St.Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. 

We will have a walk at the territory of the Kremlin and visit inside the ancient churches of 15-16 centuries (The Archangel, The Assumption and the Annunciation Cathedrals), where Russian tsars were crowned, near the 81 meter high Bell Tower of Ivan the Great built in the beginning of the 16th century we will listen to its 22 famous bells. The Big Kremlin Palace, a residence of the Russian President we will see from outside.

Day 1

• Meeting with your guide at a hotel
• Moscow City Tour
  
  

  View at Moscow city center

  During this big Moscow city tour you will see and enjoy the most famous and interesting attractions of the Russian capital, its avenues and squares, modern scyscrapers and its predecessors, Stalin’s «vysotki», the White House, great panoramas of the Kremlin, refined Bolshoi Theatre, the main building of Moscow University at the Vorobievy Gory (the Sparrow Hills), a former KGB building at Lubyanka street, the memorial complex dedicated to the Victory in the 2nd World War on Mount Poklonnaya and much more.

• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
  
  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the largest Orthodox Cathedral in Russia that has a very big and challenging history. Being constructed in the nineteenth century it was the main Cathedral of the Russian Empire but at Soviet times it was demolished and rebuilt at the end of the 20th century.
• Lunch time
• Arbat street
  
  Arbat Street is located in the very center of Moscow and is one of the most famous streets of the capital. We can say that this is one of the symbols of Moscow, like the Kremlin or Red Square. It is a pedestrian street with many shops and cafes. Here you can see numerous artists depicting pedestrians, singers. There are several memorial museums of Russian writers, picturesque old mansions with interesting decoration at Arbat street.
• Moscow Metro Tour
  
  The Moscow metro is famous for its unique decoration resembling real underground palaces with walls lined with marble, bronze and granite sculptures, mosaics and lamps of rare shape. By 2010, 44 stations were recognized as objects of cultural heritage. Among the most interesting and fascinating are Ploschad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya, Teatralnaya, Dostoevskaya stations.
• Return to the hotel

Day 2

• Meeting with your guide at a hotel
• Red Square, St.Basil Cathedral (outside), the Kremlin, The Armoury Chamber
  
  You can’t imagine the Russian capital without iconic Red Square, St.Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. We will have a walk at the territory of the Kremlin and visit inside the ancient churches of 15-16th centuries (The Archangel, The Assumption and the Annunciation Cathedrals), where Russian tsars were crowned, near the 81 meter high Bell Tower of Ivan the Great built in the beginning of the 16th century we will listen to its 22 famous bells. The Big Kremlin Palace, a residence of the Russian President we will see from outside.
  
  In the famous Armory Chamber that houses a unique collection of crown jewels, stunning coronation finery, hand-forged armor and weapons, royal carriages and sleighs, and world-famous Fabergé eggs you also will have a guided tour.
• Lunch time
• Kolomenskoye and the wooden palace
  
  Kolomenskoye is a former Tsar’s summer residence famous for the wooden palace of Alexei Mikhailovich (father of Peter I) and the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, the first stone tent church in Russia and one of the few surviving monuments of Ivan the Terrible era in Moscow. The temple was built on a hill at the place where, according to legend, the miraculous spring beat, so area around is considered holy. The wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich which we visit inside will impress you with its interiors in Russian style with wood carving elements, traditional patterns typical for the interiors of nobility of the pre-Petrine times.
• Return to the hotel

Day 1

• Meeting with your guide at a hotel
• Moscow City Tour
  
  During this big Moscow city tour you will see and enjoy the most famous and interesting attractions of the Russian capital, its avenues and squares, modern scyscrapers and its predecessors, Stalin’s «vysotki», the White House, great panoramas of the Kremlin, refined Bolshoi Theatre, the main building of Moscow University at the Vorobievy Gory (the Sparrow Hills), a former KGB building at Lubyanka street, the memorial complex dedicated to the Victory in the 2nd World War on Mount Poklonnaya and much more.
• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
  
  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the largest Orthodox Cathedral in Russia that has a very big and challenging history. Being constructed in 19th century it was the main Cathedral of the Russian Empire but at Soviet times it was demolished and rebuilt at the end of the 20th century.
• Novodevichy Convent (or New Maidens’ Monastery)
  
  Novodevichy Convent is one of the most visited tourist sites in Moscow. Its walls remember the brilliant ups and sorrowful falls, court intrigues and prayerful sighs of royal nuns, gloomy troops of «oprichniks» in the times of Ivan the Terrible and executions of rebellious archers in 1682. The decline of the Rurik dynasty, the accession of Boris Godunov in 1598 and the Great Turmoil after his reign, the beginning of the reign of the Romanovs in 1613, Nikon’s reforms and Peter’s “coup” in 1689, the invasion of Napoleon in 1812 and the “cultural revolution” of the early 20th century – all the main milestones of the country’s life have left their mark on the history of the convent.
• Lunch time
• Arbat street
  
  Arbat Street is located in the very center of Moscow and is one of the most famous streets of the capital. We can say that this is one of the symbols of Moscow, like the Kremlin or Red Square. It is a pedestrian street with many shops and cafes. Here you can see numerous artists depicting pedestrians, singers. There are several memorial museums of Russian writers, picturesque old mansions with interesting decoration.
• Moscow Metro Tour
  
  The Moscow metro is famous for its unique decoration resembling real underground palaces with walls lined with marble, bronze and granite sculptures, mosaics and lamps of rare shape. By 2010, 44 stations were recognized as objects of cultural heritage. Among the most interesting and fascinating are Ploschad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya, Teatralnaya, Dostoevskaya stations.
• Return to the hotel

Day 2

• Meeting with your guide at a hotel
• Red Square, St.Basil Cathedral (outside), the Kremlin, The Armoury Chamber, the Diamond Fund
  
  You can’t imagine the Russian capital without iconic Red Square, St.Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. We will have a walk at the territory of the Kremlin and visit inside the ancient churches of 15-16th centuries (The Archangel, The Assumption and the Annunciation Cathedrals), where Russian tsars were crowned, near the 81 meter high Bell Tower of Ivan the Great built in the beginning of the 16th century we will listen to its 22 famous bells. The Big Kremlin Palace, a residence of the Russian President we will see from outside. In the famous Armoury Chamber (inside) that houses a unique collection of crown jewels, stunning coronation finery, hand-forged armor and weapons, royal carriages and sleighs, and world-famous Fabergé eggs you also will have a guided tour.
  
  A visit to the Diamond fund will be cherry on top of the Kremlin tour because you will see the real wealth of the Russian Tsars, an outstanding collection with a long path of development closely associated with the history of the Russian state. It includes masterpieces of jewelry art of the 18th-20th centuries like The Big Imperial Crown, rare gems, gold and platinum nuggets of historical and artistic value.
• Lunch time
• Kolomenskoye and its Wooden Palace
  
  Kolomenskoye is a former Tsar’s summer residence famous for a wooden palace of Alexei Mikhailovich (father of Peter I) and the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, the first stone tent church in Russia and one of the few surviving monuments of Ivan the Terrible era in Moscow. The temple was built on a hill at the place where, according to legend, the miraculous spring beat, so area around is considered holy. The wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich which we visit inside will impress you with its interiors in Russian style with wood carving elements, traditional patterns typical for the interiors of nobility of the pre-Petrine times.
• Return to the hotel

Day 3

Tour to Sergiev Posad or New Jerusalem
Resurrection Monastery

Sergiev Posad, located 71 km from Moscow, is one of the cities that form the so called Golden Ring, the popular route through the ancient lands of Russia. The town known since 1340, is a picturesque place famous for the imposing monastery-fortress the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of St. Sergius. It is a center of great religious and cultural value. Its architectural ensemble consists of the tower and the walls of the ancient fortresses, the Trinity Cathedral, the Dukhovskaya Church, the Assumption (Uspensky) Cathedral, the Church of Zosima and Savvaty. The monk Sergius of Radonezh founded a wooden temple here in 1340 and gradually it became the largest monastery in the country. Icon painters Andrei Rublev and Daniel Chorny decorated later the main monastery church with world famous frescoes.  The suburbs of Sergiyev Posad are also very attractive and you can enjoy the Russian nature, quiet rivers, small villages and vast spaces.

New Jerusalem Resurrection Monastery

The famous New Jerusalem Resurrection Monastery is located about 40 kilometers northwest of Moscow. In the middle of the XVII century, the head of Russian Orthodox church, Patriarch Nikon and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich decided to build a monastery on the Istra River, similar to the one in the Holy Land in Jerusalem. At that time, the Ottoman Empire dominated the land of Palestine and visiting Jerusalem by Christians was associated with danger. The aim of the ambitious project of Patriarch Nikon was to recreate a spirit of holy places on Russian land but not to make an exact copy of architectural objects of the Holy Land.  The Resurrection (Voskresenskiy) Cathedral is the counterpart of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with its side chapels and the underground St Constantine and Helena Church is the counterpart of the cavernous Palestinian church. The natural landscape around the monastery bears Biblical names: a mount of Tabor, Sinai, Mount of Olives, the Jordan river (Istra), and the Garden of Gethsemane.

We recommend this tour if you are interested in Jewish culture of Moscow.

This tour can be combined with Highlights of Moscow (any days) and may include visits to

• Old Choral synagogue, the oldest Moscow synagogue, a beautiful building close to Red Square
• the Museum of Jewish history, devoted to the history of Jews in Russia
• Jewish museum and the center of tolerance
• Holocaust memorial synagogue
• The synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya
• Jewish community center
• Jewish cultural center
• Lunch/dinner in Jewish kosher restaurant