Moscow

Most beautiful and impressive at night, when it's entirely illuminated by floodlights, with the ruby-red stars atop the Kremlin towers glowing against the dark sky. — Fodor's

If you visit only one holy site in Moscow, make it this one. The. — Frommer's

This collection of masterpieces awes both newcomers to Russian art and connoisseurs. — Frommer's

With the largest collection of European art in Moscow and a decent collection of impressionist art, this landmark often draws crowds of thousands. — Frommer's

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.  — Atlas Obscura

This gargantuan cathedral... is amazingly opulent, garishly grandiose and truly historic. — Lonely Planet

A gargantuan concrete slab of a building across from Gorky Park houses Moscow's main modern art museum (the New Tretyakov). — Frommer's

The Bolshoi company, created in 1776, has kept its unique art form alive after more than two centuries of presenting Russian ballets. — Michelin Guide

The world-famous opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin (also spelt Chaliapin) lived in this quaint cottage from 1910 to 1920 with his Italian wife and five children. — Lonely Planet

The Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail Lermontov (1814–41) lived in this house with his grandparents from 1830 to 1832. Several rooms are on display. — Fodor's

This is the most authentic and atmospheric of Moscow's "house museums,"... that help you reenact the long winters that Leo Tolstoy, his wife, and their 13 kids spent here. — Frommer's

This 16th-century boardinghouse for English merchants has been turned into a museum that hosts chamber music concerts 1 or 2 evenings a week. — Frommer's

A stroll inside the heavy stone fortifications of this monastery, founded in 1360 by Metropolitan Alexei and named in honor of its first abbot, St. Andronik, is an excursion into Moscow's past. — Fodor's

Ivan the Terrible's greatest creation has come to be known by the name of his greatest adversary. — Fodor's

‘The colour of the house is liberal, ie red’, Anton Chekhov wrote of his house on the Garden Ring, where he lived from 1886 to 1890. — Lonely Planet

Laid out in the 19th century by the Russian architect Osip Bove, this garden named after Alexander I stretches along the northwest wall of the Kremlin. — Fodor's

With the launch of its new building—the Rem Koolhaas-designed structure in Gorky Park to open on June 12—it is poised to broaden Russia's scope and influence in the art world. — Condé Nast Traveler

This patch of green in central Moscow is a great getaway from the buzz of nearby Tverskaya Street and the Garden Ring, and an unmatchable spot for lazy people-watching. — Frommer's

Works by the likes of Picasso and Dalí and, especially, artists from the Russian avant-garde movement form the core of the museum's holdings. — Fodor's

The apex of Russian political power and once the centre of the Orthodox Church, the Kremlin is not only the kernel of Moscow but of the whole country. — Lonely Planet