Moscow - the capital of our Motherland
Towers of the Kremlin
The Kremlin Towers
Cathedrals of Moscow Kremlin
Moscow Kremlin’s cathedrals
The Bell Tower of Ivan the Great
The Tsar Bell
The Tsar Cannon
The Red square
St Basil’s Cathedral
St. Basil’s Cathedral
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
The Lobnoye Mesto
The State History Museum on the Red Square
Moscow museums
Panorama of Borodino (museum)
Borodino battle
The Triumphal Arch
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Monuments of Moscow
Monuments of Moscow
Monuments
Monument to Mayakovsky
Arbat. Monument to Pushkin and his wife Nataly Goncharova
The Alexandrovsky Garden
The Bolshoi Opera House
All-Russian Exhibition Centre
All-Russian Exhibition Centre
The Fountain “Friendship of the Nations”
The Fountain “The Stone Flower”
Moscow Metro stations
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Moscow - the capital of our Motherland

1. Moscow - the capital of our Motherland

2. Towers of the Kremlin

The Kremlin is the
symbol of Russia.
The symbol of the
Kremlin is the
Saviour’s Tower
(Spasskaya
Bashnya). It is 71m
high. It is notable for
the clock .

3. The Kremlin Towers

4. Cathedrals of Moscow Kremlin

5. Moscow Kremlin’s cathedrals

6. The Bell Tower of Ivan the Great

Its height is 81 m and
it has got 22 large
and over 30 small
bells in the Bell
Tower. The tower was
built during the reign
of Ivan IV in 1600.

7. The Tsar Bell

It weighs more than
200 tons. In the Great
Fire of 1737 one of its
sides cracked and
broke off.

8. The Tsar Cannon

The Tsar Cannon was
built in 1586 in
Moscow to defend the
city, but it had never
fired.

9. The Red square

It is the heart of the city and one of the biggest
and the most beautiful squares in the world. It is
695m long and its width up to 130 metres. Its
area is more than 70,000 sq.m.

10. St Basil’s Cathedral

11. St. Basil’s Cathedral

In 1555-1561 St.
Basil’s Cathedral
(Pokrovsky
Cathedral) was
erected in the order of
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
to commemorate the
annexation of the
Кazan and Astrakhan
khanates to Russia.

12. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky

Next to the Cathedral
stands the monument
to Minin and
Pozharsky. Under the
leadership of these
heroes of the 1612
war, Russian people
drove the Polish
invaders out of
Moscow.

13. The Lobnoye Mesto

Not far from the
Pokrovsky Cathedral
there is a place called
the Lobnoe Mesto,
the place of
execution, a platform
of white stone more
than 400 years old.

14. The State History Museum on the Red Square

15. Moscow museums

The State Tretyakov
Gallery houses a rich
collection of Russian
painting and Russian
icons.

16. Panorama of Borodino (museum)

17. Borodino battle

The battle in the village Borodino in the war with
the French in 1812

18. The Triumphal Arch

19. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

20. Monuments of Moscow

21. Monuments of Moscow

22. Monuments

Monument to the
great Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin

23. Monument to Mayakovsky

24. Arbat. Monument to Pushkin and his wife Nataly Goncharova

25. The Alexandrovsky Garden

The Tomb of
Unknown Soldier

26. The Bolshoi Opera House

27. All-Russian Exhibition Centre

28. All-Russian Exhibition Centre

29. The Fountain “Friendship of the Nations”

30. The Fountain “The Stone Flower”

31. Moscow Metro stations

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