Historic sites
Golden Ring: Suzdal
Vladimir
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.
Historic sites in Russia
Historic sites
Kazan Kremlin
Kazan, Tatarstan
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…
Historic sites
Kizhi Pogost
Karelia
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…
Historic sites
Red Square and the Kremlin, Moscow
Moscow
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…