Historic sites

Red Square and the Kremlin, Moscow

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Red Square and the Kremlin, Moscow
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Moscow's great square, with the colourful onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral at one end, the red walls and towers of the Kremlin along one side, Lenin's Mausoleum, and the GUM department store. Inside the Kremlin are the Cathedral Square, with golden-domed cathedrals where tsars were crowned, and the Armoury, with Fabergé eggs and royal treasures.


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