Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that concentrates its activities exclusively on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inauguration, the Museum has expanded its strategies and achieved a high level of public acknowledgement. Today the Museum is an energetic institution that plays an important part on the Moscow art scene.

WINZAVOD Centre for contemporary art is one-of-a-kind venue representing the diversity of contemporary culture. First of all, WINZAVOD infrastructure is focused on support and development of Russian contemporary art, which is at the height of popularity.

Garage is a major non-profit international arts space based in Moscow, dedicated to exploring and developing contemporary culture. We present a programme of exhibitions by international and Russian artists and serves as a catalyst and meeting point for Moscow’s emerging arts scene. We are housed in the masterpiece of 20th century Russian architecture – the former Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage – designed in 1926 by the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov.

BAIBAKOV art projects offers the Moscow public a chance to experience cutting-edge contemporary art projects, with a program that includes both international and local artists.

Red Square, an inspiring site to visit, is surrounded on one side by the Kremlin walls and Lenin's tomb and on the other by GUM, a world-famous collection of shops and boutiques.

Maslenitsa (Butter Week) is the only ancient pagan celebration still included in the calendar of festivals of the Orthodox Church. In the pre-Christian age, at this time of year when the days were getting longer, tribes all over Europe celebrated the revival of nature, with pagan rituals for seeing off the winter and greeting the spring.  More

What do Russians do during Great Lent and at Easter? Nonbelievers go on living the way they always lived, and this period does not mean an awful lot to them. There are also different types of believers. There are those who believe in a higher reality, in Angels and retribution, but they are not members of the Church. They do not fast, do not confess their sins, receive communion, attend the liturgy or observe any other ecclesiastic rites and rituals. More

The Soviet Victory Day or May 9 marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War (also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and some post-Soviet states). It was first inaugurated in the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the surrender document late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May by Moscow Time). More

Bolshoi Theatre is the national theatre of Russia, the quintessence of the Russian musical tradition and the international center of the music culture. Its goal is to place the classical heritage into the context of changing cultural demand of the Russian society, and to advance and develop the music theatre in Russia.

The repertoire of Helikon-Opera consists of more than 50 performances, each of which is unique. The theatre has always been trying to depart the convenient, outworn scenic embodiments, to surprise the audience not only with novelty and impudence, but with bright vocal and drama performance, at the same time carefully treating a composer’s idea. The hall which has 250 seats is always full of spectators, despite quite expensive tickets.

Every theatre season is a journey into the unknown. No matter how well we plan it the outcome is always unpredictable because theatre means creativity, it is an endless road where each turn opens something new and unexpected.

The Moscow Kremlin is situated in the very center of the capital of Russia. Its monumental walls and towers, golden-domed cathedrals and ancient palaces stand high on the Borovitskiy Hill above the Moskva River forming a magnificent architectural ensemble.

The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, or St.Basil's Cathedral, was built in 1555 - 1561 to commemorate the victory of the Russians over Kazan Khannate on 1st October 1552. The Russian tzar Ivan the Terrible ordered two Russian architects (Barma and Postnik) to build a monument in honour of the victory, and it is said he had their eyes poked out so that they could never design anything to rival its beauty.

The Novodevichy Convent is one of the most beautiful and harmonious architectural ensembles in Moscow. It was founded in 1525 by Grand Duke Vassily 111- such was the way for the ruler of Russia to celebrate the re-integration of the old city of Smolensk to the Russian State. In the subsejuent centuries the Convent was a witness to and stage of various important historic events associated with the names of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, Peter the Great.

The State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty. The total number of objects in the museum's collection numbers in the millions.

GUM always was and remains the greatest country's store. The building's planning represents three lengthway three-floor passages with deep basements. The glass roof designed by the engineer V. Shukhov imparts uniqueness to the building's architecture. Stretching on a quarter of a kilometer along the Kremlin's wall, the GUM's building encloses the Red Square from the East with its facades' architecture (decorated with facet rustics), and calls up with Kremlin and the Historical museum.

Kolomenskoye - the residence of Moscow Grand Princes and Russian Tsars became known in the XIV century. Its unique architectural ensemble is of great art and historical value. Here is the church of the Ascension built in 1532. In 1994 it was inscribed in the list of the World heritage of UNESCO.

The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art and one of the greatest museums in the world. The Gallery's collection consists entirely of Russian art and artists who have made а contribution to the history of Russian art or been closely connected with it. The collection contains more than 150 000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics, created throughout the centuries by successive generations of Russian artists. Russian art works, ranging in date from the 11th to the early 20th century, are on the show in Gallery's historic building on Lavrushinskiy Pereulok. New building of the Tretyakov Gallery at Krymskiy Val houses a unique museum exhibition of national 20th century art.

The exposition of the Museum includes today a vast collection of tinted plaster casts of famous ancient, medieval and Renaissance sculptures and a collection of original works of foreign artists, sculptors and graphics together with objects of decorative arts. The rooms of the ground floor present mainly the original works: works of art of Ancient Egypt, antiquities, European paintings of the VII-XVIII centuries; two halls — Italian and Greek courtyards are housing casts. On the first floor there are rooms with casts of Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages and Renaissance. The rooms of painting acquaint the public with the art of the XIXth and XXth centuries.

The Armory Chamber, a treasure-house, is a part of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s complex. The museum collections were based on the precious items that had been preserved for centuries in the tsars’ treasury and the Patriarch’s vestry. Some of the exhibits were made in the Kremlin’s workshops, others were accepted as ambassadorial gifts. The museum was named after one of the oldest Kremlin’s treasury stores.

Contemporary Art museum Art4.Ru – the first Russian museum of modern domestic art, founded by Igor Markin.