The sculptural group "Make Way for Ducklings" in Moscow is a duplicate of the sculpture, which is located in Boston, USA. In 1991, Barbara Bush gave this sculpture to Raisa Gorbacheva and the work is still displayed in the park not far from the Novodevichy Convent ( Read more... )

There are many meaningful monuments in Moscow. This monument entitled "Compassion" was installed at Mendeleevskaya metro station. As it is engraved on it, "the monument is dedicated to the human treatment of stray animals" and has a sad history. In 2001, at this place, a 22-year-old woman Yulia Romanova, with a great cruelty, killed a mongrel stray ( Read more... )

Not far from the metro station "Dmitrovskaya" you can find an interesting monument to the famous Russian processed cheese called "Friendship" ("Drujba" in Russian). The monument was installed close to Moscow Processed Cheese Factory "Karat" in 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular local sights. It consists of two main characters from the ( Read more... )

The park Gorki Leninskie is located 30km south from Moscow. It takes about one and a half kilometer to get to the estate from the main entrance of the park. The estate was built in the 18th century and was chosen by Lenin for his convalescence after Fanya Kaplin's attempted assassination in 1918. Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and ( Read more... )

The monument to the popular heroes of Conan Doyle' stories by Andrey Orlov takes place in front of the British Embassy on the Smolenskaya embankment in Moscow. It is the only sculpture in the world where Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson appear before the public together. Conan Doyle's detective stories have been very popular in Russia. Everybody ( Read more... )

The sculptural composition "Rostokinsky Street Cleaner" is located in Rostokino District (the northeast administrative district of Moscow). In this region people decided to express their gratitude for street cleaners' work in a special way. The sculpture is installed on the hill near Rostokinsky aqueduct, not far from the crossing of Bazhova and ( Read more... )

It's interesting that Moscow has its own Wailing wall. It is located in Spaso-Glinishevsky lane opposite the synagogue.It is small, only 15x3 meters, but it still contains notes between the stones.


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The Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army (until 1951 - The Central Theatre of the Red Army, 1951-1993 - Central Theatre of the Soviet Army) was built in 1940. The architecture of the building is unique by its form of the five-point star designed by the architects K. Alabyan and V. Simbirtsev. Every ray of the star points to five railway ( Read more... )

Zurab Tseriteli Museum is full of unusual monuments and sculptures created by a famous Georgian-Russian artist, sculptor and architect Zurab Tseriteli. His 94 meter high statue of Peter the Great in Moscow is the eighth tallest statue in the world. And his sculpture, entitled 'Good Defeats Evil' is on the grounds of the UN building in New York City ( Read more... )

According to the sign on the commemorative plate of the monument, the Twenty-Eight Panfilov Guardsmen fighted to the bitter end and defeated fascists in the violant battle for Moscow during the Second World War in grim days of November 1941.
The monument was reared in May 1975 and dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Victory.
It consists of six ( Read more... )