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Red Square and the Kremlin

Visiting Moscow is best in late spring or autumn when the weather is warm and sunny, and there is simply no better place to begin your exploring than its historic heart: the Red Square (Krasnaia Ploshchad'). Much of Russia's turbulent history has played out either in public on the Red Square itself or in private behind the walls of the Kremlin (Kreml'). The Kremlin is a powerful...

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Moscow Neighborhoods

Arbat

Formerly a haunt of artists and writers (most famously, Pushkin), Arbat in the early 21st century is central Moscow’s premier tourist trap. Street merchants hawk everything from real Soviet... more neighborhoods

History

In 1147, Prince Dolgoruki invited a group of nobles from Novgorod to a grand feast at his lodge overlooking the Moskva river. That location became the Kremlin - the power center of the emerging Russian...

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