Menshikov Tower (Church of Archangel Gabriel)

Menshikov Tower, also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthdox Church. It was built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov  by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl. It was substantially altered in 1770

Street Art by the river

Tretyakov Gallery

The State Tretyakov Gallery was founded by a Russian merchant Pavel Tretyakov.
He donated his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892.  The Gallery has since become a world-famous museum .  Nowadays it contains more than 170 000 works by Russian artists from the early religious paintings to the modern art objects.

View from Sixty restaurant

Russian Academy of Sciences

Zachatievsky Monastery

New Tretyakov Gallery

Red October Factory

Ulitsa Prechistenka

Ulitsa Prechistenka  (Communion st.), the medieval road leading from the Kremlin to the Novodevichiy Convent , has been one of Moscow's most prestigious  avenues since sixteenth century. In Soviet times, the avenue was also named Kropotkinskaya, after the Anarchist Prince Kropotkin, who was born nearby.

by the river

Radisson Royal Hotel (Hotel Ukraina)

Radisson Royal Hotel , built in 1953 as Hotel Ukraina by Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, is the second tallest of the seven sisters (198m, with 34 stories). Until 1976 it was the tallest hotel in the world. The hotel reopened on April 2010 after a 3 years renovation as the Radisson Royal Hotel.

la mosca a Shanghai