Chaliapin House Museum, Moscow

Church of the Ascension

Built to commemorate the birth of Ivan the Terrible, Kolomenskoye's Church of the Ascension upended the Byzantine style with its wooden conical tower, and proved to be a milestone in the history of Russian ecclesiastical architecture

Chekhov House Museum

Furniture, photos and memorabilia belonging to Chekhov are on display here

New Arbat Street

Located near Old Arbat Street, this street offers a contrast from the touristy pedestrian-only thoroughfare

Povarskaya (Cook) Street

The street where the tsars' cooks lived, now the hub of Moscow's artistic community, with the Russian Academy of Music (the Gnesin Institute), and the Tsentralny Dom Literatorov (Central House of Writers) located here

Bely Dom

Moscow's White House, it was the headquarters of the USSR

Old Arbat Street

Walk down this kitschy street and don't forget to look at the small by-streets around the Arbat

Moscow Zoo

The oldest and the biggest zoo in Russia, has over 1000 animal species

Patriarshi ponds area

There is only one pond left, but it is squared with buildings so it is quite peaceful here despite hectic Sadovoye Ring nearby

Museum of Modern Art (Moscow)

It houses an impressive collection of 20th-century paintings and sculptures by Russian and foreign artists, including avant-garde art by Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich

Stanislavski Museum

The house where Konstantin Stanislavski, the propounder of method acting, lived

Chaliapin House Museum, Moscow