Entertainment in Moscow
For well over a century, Moscow has been one of the world’s great centres of classical music, opera and ballet, most famously represented by the Bolshoy Theatre but also by its orchestras and choirs. Theatre can be tricky for non-Russian speakers though circus and puppetry surpass the language barrier. Moscow’s film industry and annual international film festival dwarf St Petersburg’s, but at other times most cinemas screen Hollywood blockbusters.
All this can be surprisingly good value, provided you ask for the cheapest ticket available (samiy deshoviy bilyet).
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Moscow
- Red Squarechevron_right
- The Kremlinchevron_right
- The Museum of Modern Historychevron_right
- The Pushkin Museum of Fine Artschevron_right
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviourchevron_right
- House-museumschevron_right
- Patriarch’s Pondschevron_right
- Novodevichiy Conventchevron_right
- The Tretyakov Gallerychevron_right
- The New Tretyakov Gallerychevron_right
- Gorky Parkchevron_right
- VDNKhchevron_right
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