Moscow is the capital of Russia.It is more than 850 years old. Now Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe.The population of the city is over 9 million.
The city is situated on seven hills. On one of them is the
Kremlin with its beautiful red walls and famous tower.
Spasskaya Tower
There are a lot of beautiful churches, cathedrals, bell towers and temples in Moscow. But one of the most exciting cathedrals is St.Basil’s cathedral.The Kremlin and St.Basil’s Cathedral are masterpieces of ancient Russian architecture.
There are more than 100 museums in Moscow. The largest
museums are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the
State Tretyakov Gallery.
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
One of the richest world collections of fine arts from the time immemorial to nowadays is treasured in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. It is the second after the Hermitage in St.Petersburg.
The Tretyakov GallaryIn 1892, Pavel Tretyakov donated his entire collection to Moscow.His brother Sergey Tretyakov was a collector, but only of Western European paintings. The gallery has an excellent selection of the best works by the “ peredvizhniki”. Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Vasiliy Surikov an others.
Of course Moscow has a new amazing buildings,srteets and
bridges. For example: Andreevskiy Bridge, Kutuzov
avenue