A small town north-east of Moscow, the jewel of the Golden Ring of medieval towns, with white churches, monasteries and wooden houses among meadows. See the Suzdal Kremlin with its blue star-spangled domes, the Museum of Wooden Architecture, and the walled Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius.
Vladimir, nearby, has UNESCO-listed white-stone cathedrals. Many governments currently advise against travel to Russia; check your government's travel advice first.
The longest railway line in the world, 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok, a journey of about 7 days without stops, across forests, steppe and the s…
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, Len…
A white-walled fortress in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, where an Orthodox cathedral stands beside the blue-domed Kul Sharif Mosque, a symbol of t…
An island in Lake Onega with two remarkable wooden churches, the 22-domed Church of the Transfiguration, built in 1714 without a single nail, and a b…
The summer residence of the Russian empresses at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), 25 km south of St Petersburg.
A colourful Russian-style church with onion domes, built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.
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